Shellseeker Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Found very little yesterday. This is somewhat unique as are all earbones. Found in a Bone Valley area with no Pleistocene material but with pre_equus horse teeth. At first, I thought "baleen whale", but it is too small. Asking @Harry Pristis and @Boesse to evaluate, but encourage all comments and suggestions. Jack The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PODIGGER Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Shellseeker, Looks about the same size and somewhat similar to this one Boesse id'd as baleen whale. Pulled from the Peace River in May. Yours appears a more complete. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 10, 2019 Author Share Posted July 10, 2019 On 7/10/2019 at 8:39 AM, PODIGGER said: Shellseeker, Looks about the same size and somewhat similar to this one Boesse id'd as baleen whale. Pulled from the Peace River in May. Yours appears a more complete. WoW, This IS interesting... I hope that Bobby will comment on the size of these. If these earbones are fullsized at birth, then we are dealing with mighty small Baleen whales.. How small are they? Here is a collection photo: From left to right: The fossil I found Monday; a Baleen whale ear bone (identified by Bobby previously) that seems a lot different from this recent one; and an ear bone identified as hosenose (likely Mastodon). "Curiouser and curiouser.." The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 15 minutes ago, Shellseeker said: I hope that Bobby will comment on the size of these. If these earbones are fullsized at birth, then we are dealing with mighty small Baleen whales.. I have heard that the cetatean ear bone are full size at birth and do not get larger in adults. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Looks like its from a toothed whale. No idea on which one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 This is another Parietobalaena-grade petrosal/periotic - baleen whale. Very close in morphology to Parietobalaena and Diorocetus. This is to my knowledge the only other Parietobalaena-grade earbone collected from Florida, if the one collected by @PODIGGER is the one I am thinking of that he recently donated to FLMNH. This one is certainly worthy of study as well if it were donated and would make a nice companion! "Kelloggitheres" are a grade of well-known baleen whales that are poorly understood in terms of their taxonomy/phylogeny. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Boesse said: This is another Parietobalaena-grade petrosal/periotic - baleen whale. Very close in morphology to Parietobalaena and Diorocetus. This is to my knowledge the only other Parietobalaena-grade earbone collected from Florida, if the one collected by @PODIGGER is the one I am thinking of that he recently donated to FLMNH. This one is certainly worthy of study as well if it were donated and would make a nice companion! "Kelloggitheres" are a grade of well-known baleen whales that are poorly understood in terms of their taxonomy/phylogeny. Thanks to both Bobby and Al Dente, I always try to increase my knowledge driven by my finds and will search for "Parietobabaena". If you have a favorite reference on this whale, please point me to it. I will be donating this fossil. Jack 2 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PODIGGER Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Jack, This is great. Two new finds donated to FLMNH that can help further scientific research. Congrats! JIm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Mighty awesome Jack. congrats! Keep hunting/digging/screening! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Great find Jack, 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...
fossilsonwheels Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Great find. It does look similar to some of the STH ear bones I have that are Parietobalaena. What a cool thing to find and donate in the name of science. Awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 On 7/10/2019 at 9:45 PM, Shellseeker said: I will be donating this fossil. Way to go! Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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