dalmayshun Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Last Saturday my friend and I once again ventured out. We had such a great time last trip, we decided to try to repeat it. I am including a slide of the nicest teeth I found, and a fun layout project that I may ot follow through on, and the remainder of the fossils found in 4 hours of sifting gravel. We went to the same little stream in Northport. jIt runds into the Myakka river, but I don't know its name, in face there are lots of tributaries in the area, so it may well be just a branch of somehting, or unnamed. At any rate, the place is magical. After our hurricane last years, the canapy has opened up and lots of wild orchids were blooming. These are little yellow green ground orchids, that grow in moist ground or actually float in the water, sometimes forming large mats. They are called water-spider orchids. The stream had changed little....we did more walking this time, exploring. My friend found some nice joint pieces, horse, we think, and a beautiful piece of box turtle shell, almost a third of the shell. My find were these large teeth. We are getting a slight cold spell now, but nothing like you folks from S. Carolina to the north....we lelft snow behind a long time ago. Next time we head out in January, it will be to the rivers...they should be nice and low then. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice finds! Not a bad haul at all. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice finds- Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Neat haul you got -Christian Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice. I'm jealous. SE texas cold and very high water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice arrangement Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Great haul! Congratulations on a nice hunt! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan 1000 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice haul! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Nice haul congrats! Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Very nice. Wish the water would go down here in N. C. , but winter is our high water time. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Wow, good finds! Each dot is 50,000,000 years: Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic........... Paleo......Meso....Ceno.. Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here Doesn't time just fly by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echinoid Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Nice! Love the ray plates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 Thanks everyone for the comments....I believe what was extraordinary for me, was this all came from a relatively small area...and doesn't include my friends finds, from the same area, we were digging side for side in an area only 10 feet by 10 feet....every screen would have 4-8 teeth and other various things. the little snake vertebrae was my first. Lots of the bone is un-identifiable to me, from small mammels , I think not bird....but perhaps someone could tell me how to differeniate...are bird bones thinnner...hollow....???? Thanks. I love learning on this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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