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Spent the day on the Peace River yesterday with some success.  I was concerned, after the recent rains, that the river was getting too high.  I was still able to get to my latest spot via kayak (just made it under one downed tree).  Found a few nice Megs, Snaggletooth, Horse teeth and Tiger shark.  Also, found a few items I can't identify. I have purchased a copy of Vertebrate Fossils: A Neophyte's Guide along with Fossiling In Florida to help ID the finds.  As a novice I am enjoying the learning experience and am grateful that the Forum is here to help when I am stumped.  So here is the first item I could use some assistance with:

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1 hour ago, PODIGGER said:

Thank you ynot! That was a very quick response!

 

Jim

Your welcome.

Maybe @Boesse can identify it more precisely.

Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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1 hour ago, Carl said:

I think it might actually be a tilly bone. Pretty small for an cetacean earbone.

A partial at 1.5 inches seems well within the range I have seen for dolphin ear bones.

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Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection

My favorite thread on TFF.

 

 

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6 hours ago, Carl said:

I think it might actually be a tilly bone. Pretty small for an cetacean earbone.

I'm sure many cetaceans died while juvenile.

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Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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47 minutes ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

I'm sure many cetaceans died while juvenile.

It is My understanding that the ear bones are full sized upon birth and do not get larger as the cetatean ages.

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Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection

My favorite thread on TFF.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, ynot said:

It is My understanding that the ear bones are full sized upon birth and do not get larger as the cetatean ages.

Interesting. Thank you. I will read up on it.

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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This is actually quite interesting - this is a "kelloggithere" baleen whale earbone; we use the informal joke nickname "kelloggithere" for a group of whales formerly called "cetotheres" described by Kellogg from the Calvert/Choptank formations (Parietobalaena, Diorocetus, Aglaocetus, etc.). This is very very similar to Parietobalaena which is typically middle Miocene. To my knowledge this might be a new record for Florida.

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Thank you Boesse for this new information.  Maybe this is one I should make the state licensing office aware of.  

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