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I have had the delight of hunting the Peace river and it's Tributaries for a few years now. Time was taken to combine my finds and I discovered some unknowns that I hope someone can help me with!!  

 

 Rib. It does not appear to be Dugong. Any chance of a broad classification??

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These look like bullas, but so different than whales. I was told horse. Could this be correct??

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  Unknown Teeth:

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Unknown small vertebrae:

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 I find these all the time and have no clue as to what they are. Stingray barbs worn down is my thought. Probably for the junk pile!

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 Here is a selection of teeth that were never identified:

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I posted this in my Florida trip section and was told probably not anything. SO, I hit it with a hammer and think it IS something!

 

 

 

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 Final unknown. It appears to have "enamel". Just beat up, and not from my hammer.

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3.) looks like a lower camel tooth. 12.) Looks like a broke something, Lol. Had a claw shape.

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#7 are fragments of stingray barbs. #8,9 and 11 are fish teeth.  #11 is barracuda. #8 could be barracuda or wahoo.

 

I agree with you on #2, they look like bullas to me too

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I think 12 is a piece of mammoth or mastodon tooth Mike:)8,9 and 11 are cuda teeth but not sure on 10

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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I contacted the U of Florida expert, Hulbert,Richard C,JR  for ID help. His IDs are  

     1. Juvenile Dugong rib

     2.All are petrosals (bullas or inner ear bones). The  left one is bison. The right 2 are horse. Very good  @Shellseeker at calling these horse!!

     3. Is Llama lower tooth. Most likely Palaeolama mircifica.

     5. Is broken bison tooth.

     6. My favorite to get IDed. It is a bird vertebrae!!!!!

     12. A piece of mammoth tooth. Very good @jcbshark

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34 minutes ago, minnbuckeye said:

2.All are petrosals (bullas or inner ear bones). The  left one is bison. The right 2 are horse. Very good  @Shellseeker at calling these horse!!

 

:yay-smiley-1::yay-smiley-1: Well, Mike.  Richard Hulbert identified some of my unknown earbones as Equus a couple of years back. The reason for celebration is Richard identifying BISON earbones.. As far as I know a first.

38 minutes ago, minnbuckeye said:

  6. My favorite to get IDed. It is a bird vertebrae!!!!!

That a BIG bird... 1 inch vertebrae... Did Richard help with which bird?  Maybe @Auspex can help...

Nice progress Mike,  Good job!!!!

The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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9 hours ago, Shellseeker said:

BISON earbones

 

@Shellseeker I don't know how important earbones are to you, but if you would like it, I can send it to you. Not sure if I truly found it anyways, or whether someone threw it into my screen.

 

 Mike

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Thanks Mike, but I believe you should keep this one. It is good to have some rarer examples in your Florida Fossil collection.  What I am really interested in is knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge of mammal ear bones.  i.e I want to collect your excellent photos. We are becoming world_wide experts in Florida fossil ear_bones. :fistbump:

Here is one found and identified:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/9189-inner-ear-but-whose/

and another one from the net:

https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/2-4-fossil-manatee-ear-bone

another I found:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/83908-large-mammal-earbone/

and finally, one I found this week... smaller and as yet unidentified.

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The White Queen  ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"

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13 hours ago, Shellseeker said:

That a BIG bird... 1 inch vertebrae... Did Richard help with which bird?  Maybe @Auspex can help...

Non-passerine cervical, kinda' turkey-sized. Someone with a reference collection could probably figure it out, but that's all I got.

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Possibly, from something like the copious Turkey Vultures we see on the river? Las two times we were out at the Peace, we had both Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures fly down to the banks near where we were sifting in the river and hop down to the water's edge to grab a drink. There were miles of river where they could do that and I wondered at their apparent amiability to quench their thirsts mere feet from where we were.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

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18 minutes ago, digit said:

Possibly, from something like the copious Turkey Vultures we see on the river? Las two times we were out at the Peace, we had both Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures fly down to the banks near where we were sifting in the river and hop down to the water's edge to grab a drink. There were miles of river where they could do that and I wondered at their apparent amiability to quench their thirsts mere feet from where we were.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

What was the paleoenvironment then in the area of what is now the Peace River?

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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That's the fun thing about the Peace--it varied incredibly. The flat plain that is southern Florida has been (over the millenia) a shallow coastal sea, an Everglades-like swamp, or high and dry with a mixture of grassy plain and forest. The river (in flood stage) cuts through all of these various cake layers and deposits a jumbled aggregation of fossils into the gravel beds we hunt. For this reason, it is possible to pull a dugong rib or shark tooth (marine), turtle shell frag or gator tooth/osteoderm (wetland) or horse, camelid, mammoth/mastodon tooth (terrestrial) from the very same sifting screen. :)

 

In many cases the Plio/Pleistocene fossils we pull from the Peace are not very different from the animals inhabiting the area presently (turtle, gator, muskrat, possum, raccoon, deer). Makes it tricky on occasion to determine if some items are fossilized or modern. Pretty easy with items like camelids, bison, mammoth/mastodon but less certain for gator and turtle which we see daily on the river banks.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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51 minutes ago, digit said:

Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures

@digit, lets think more positive than vulture. And besides, it does NOT stink. I am sure it would still carry an odor millions of years out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

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