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  1. Shellseeker

    Bone Valley Creek

    Out hunting yesterday. Sun Shining, pretty warm and I could find deep water... A lot of small colorful shark teeth and other marine fossils but I was missing most fossils from land based fauna until the very end of the hunt. So, Hemi, Tiger, Lemon, Bull, Dusky, most with light roots and blue or cream colored blades. Add in sea urchin spines, Stingray teeth and Barb frags, Sawfish rostral frags. The 3 Megs... One early. I like the color , and the almost perfectly consistent serrations.. Even broken at 39 mm , a nice find Another Meg 44 mm late. Complete, good serrations, a little feeding damage on the tip. I took the photo on my screened porch.. Not an unpleasant effect. Also little cusp, An Atavism... This from @siteseer in an old thread. .... Having lateral cusplets remained in the genes of the species millions of years after it was basic tooth character. Occasionally, the gene for cusplets, which had been "switched off" would switch on randomly and an individual would have teeth with cusplets. You wouldn't call it a pathology but just a rare expression of an ancestral trait. A very good 36 mm Bulla, that I'll try to identify.. I found a Bulla identified as Beluga whale at this location last year. Two fossil fragments showed up in the last sieve.. The 1st one at 27 mm, I think is a mammal ear bone because I have found similar at other sites. I am a little mystified by Nerve/Blood vessel canal on the bottom photo. and then this 34 mm enamel fragment of a mammal tooth... Similar to Mastodon or Gomphothere, but the best match might be Rhino. I have never found any Rhino fossil here and it would imply late Miocene (8-10 mya). That would be exciting. Enjoy...
  2. Sonickmonx

    Dolphin Bulla

    From the album: Sonickmonx's South Carolina Finds

    My nicest bulla. Found in the Chandler Bridge.
  3. Shellseeker

    2023Feb12th_Dolphin_Bulla

    From the album: FOTM - Bone Valley Formation, Florida, USA

    An Eurhinodelphinid Dolphin Bulla, identified by Robert Boessenecker
  4. I have acquired some whale fossils and the best ID offered by the seller was "whale". Is it possible to get an ID to a genus level on fossils like these? I have a couple more bulla and one more tooth but for now, to keep things simple I'll post pics of one of each. I don't have find location info, definitely from the USA and filling in the blanks from the seller, I'd say it's likely they were found on the lower east coast somewhere.
  5. davidvw

    Three tiny beauties

    "Wie het kleine niet eert, is het grote niet weerd!" goes the Dutch saying (who does not appreciate the small, isn't worthy of the big). Three small fossils, any help with the ID's? The brown one looks like a bulla to me, from a dolphin maybe? No idea about the other two. All found on the Dutch coast, on the same location. Mammal bones on this location are from the pleistocene and holocene, shark teeth and bones from fish and sea mammals (dolphins and whales mostly) are from the eocene-pliocene.
  6. It had been 10 days since I went hunting, and that is bad for not being able to enjoy my favorite pastime and the pure lack of exercise. I had been up North for over 2 weeks in July. Each day fossil hunting is lots of exercise , paddling a kayak, shoveling gravel for 5-6 hours almost non_stop. So yesterday was a day hunting independent of conditions.. We picked a spot where we have hunted over and over again for 5 years... and it always produces no matter how much we take out.. I did not find very much, but Steve did, a number of Megs, a couple of horse teeth, He said on one sieve he found 37 small shark teeth. My spot was not as productive, and somewhat hard to deal with, fast water, pretty deep... I average 6 sieves an hours and usually we are there for 5 hours, If I average 7 small shark teeth an hour, === 200 + There are 206 small teeth in the photo below... and this was not a particularly a productive day. So getting down to the better items: I found 3 marine mammal bullas, a horse tooth, a tapir cap, some Meg and Mammoth Frags, distal end of a Sea Turtle humerus... Lower Equus tooth in decent shape is interesting , a little different chewing surface, like a p2. A broken Hyplural, a rostral tooth, tapir cap, puffer fish mouthplate, gar scale, silicified seashell, and of the 3 bulla, I like the smallest one best...Do not know if it identifiable, but I have time. As the finds get less plentiful, I get interested in whatever comes along... Here is a broken off Mammoth root, that I can use to identify other found in the river.. I also grabbed that bone in upper left just so I would have something to identify when I am not out hunting. I was worn and weary last night, but feeling much better, much stronger today... Therapeutic.
  7. Today, I went to the Peace River with frequent hunting partner Steve and , as a treat, my son Jack. My son is at Florida's Atlantic coast for another 4 days and we scheduled today to meet at the Peace River. This is only the 7th time we have hunted together and usually we find interesting and impressive fossils. Beyond the numerous small shark teeth that are available in many sections of the Peace River, the 3 of us found few other species. All of us found a couple of small megs in the 36 to 40 mm range. That was pleasant.. Here was my set of interesting finds. Megs, Dugong, Stingray, Seashells, Dolphin bulla. This was just icing on the cake...My birthday is Tomorrow. Got to celebrate with my son in the sunshine hunting fossils. How sweet it is...
  8. Shellseeker

    Peace River modern vertebra

    Went hunting today. One broken Meg, One broken Mako but some interesting finds. I pick up lots of things that trigger my curiosity, like a coprolite or modern catfish barb, or even enamel fragments that have patterns that I try to identify. There are some rocks in this photo, but don't get confused. At 3 o'clock is piece of tusk, and 4 o'clock has 2 pieces of fossilized wood. Dolphin vert, a couple of dolphin bulla, a couple of processes from Baleen whale petrosal. Just goes to show, sometimes I do pick up fossils. I am interested in that likely modern bone at 7 pm... Here are some more photos. Those breaks look clean, like from a butcher's saw. Possibly, I'll learn to recognize this next time I see it.
  9. Shellseeker

    Tympanic Bulla

    I was out today with @DirtyHippie. We have a great time and I came home with a Dolphin earbone and a pretty upper Hemi. I thought the earbone was Pomatodelphis inaequalis, from Hulbert's book. But, in close comparisons, I am not so sure. What do others think? @Boesse Here is a bulla that I had found in the Peace River that I thought was from Pomatodelphis inaequalis for comparisons.
  10. Found this little fossil on the James River shoreline near Surry, Virginia (US). Wondered whether it might be an incomplete dolphin ear bone, but not entirely confident in that ID! It's just about an inch long.
  11. Hi all - it's been a while, since I started on twitter and started teaching much of the itch I scratched through blog writing was taken care of by twitter - but now I've thought about returning to more long-format science communication. The blog format is certainly more informative for most fossil collectors anyway. The new post is just the first in a series on whale and dolphin earbones - the first is an introduction to the basic anatomy and function of earbones, along with basic differences between baleen whale (Mysticeti) and dolphin (Odontoceti) earbones, with comments on their preservation, discovery, and their uses in cetacean taxonomy, cladistics, and studies of diversity. The next post will be the one most anticipated by the majority of collectors - a guide to identifying dolphin periotics by family. The third post will be similar, but directed towards mysticete periotics, and the fourth will cover mysticete and odontocete tympanic bullae. Read it here: https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2022/12/bobbys-guide-to-whale-dolphin-earbones.html Obligatory photo of some periotics we collected out on Charleston harbor on Dec. 1, well worth boots full of freezing cold water:
  12. PODIGGER

    ID Help Please

    Picked up the below a few months ago. Initially I thought it may just be a concretion. After a second look I noticed holes on the stem portion that reminded me of a prior find. The old find, rare for Florida, was an extinct baleen whale ear bone (Parioetobalaena). While I don't see this as an exact match I thought it was worthy of posting and seeking additional opinions. I am hoping Dr Boessenecker @Boesse will have time to take a look and comment. The specimen measures - 30mm x 36mm x 23mm Or in inches = 1 3/8" x 1 1/2" x 7/8" The blue ruler in the photos is mm and the pink inches.
  13. So I've been looking around at the pile in the garage, trying to get rid of some of the junk and taking some photos that I thought you all might be interested in. I think some of you may have picked on my fascination with earbones...If you dont have that fascination keep scrolling....Well, here's one partial example with multiple views that was a little more different than most but I think its a whale bulla. Its preservation is a little different and there is an extra cavity where normally you would have solid bone...just my guess anyways. Also another shot of it on the very left showing some of the other bullas and its relative difference. Maybe its something completely different. Here's a neat little blob of casts of sponge borings and I've been trying to get a real sharp close up of what I think is a bryozoan in the same matrix but its the best I can do. The unknown is really cool but I just cant capture the real coolness with my cell phone..The scaley looking fragment is approximately 6mm long.The preservation detail is remarkable given its only a fragment. I suppose I really should put this in the ID section as I was wondering if these are all same Sconsia species. S. hodgii? Not that important...Didnt realize I had 4 of them until recently. A couple of them have taller spires and I just cant decide if they are all the same or not. Here's a Chesapecten. C madisonius I think. (photos of after and before) that I put in 2-3 hrs here and there trying to clean. Was using dental picks and a brass brush to remove the sandy matrix and endless soaking. I could do more I suppose but I dont have the patience for prepping. I had ideas of separating the valves but maybe in another lifetime. It has all kinds of very small sponge boring holes and grooves that make me absolute crazy. LOL. Was hoping to find that it had attached barnacles but they were gone and I only had scars left. Those of you who have that patience to prep I applaud you! Lastly for all you barnacle and brach fans...I know there are thousands of you..I am one..LOL. So a complete brach Discinisca lugrubris around here is pretty rare. I only have a few and this is the 2nd of 2 brach/barnacle associations I have. What makes this barnacle on top of a brach extra special special was that when I recently was looking for plates/stuff inside the barnacle (which had no plates and mostly just sand) I found another brach...a tiny juvenile! Yeah! So its time for breakfast...Continued hunting success! Regards, Chris
  14. RescueMJ

    Bulla Fossil

    East Venice, FL. Pleistocene material. I believe the fossil is a bulla It measures 76 mm x 41 mm at longest points. It is on the red color side. I am attaching a bulla that is black in color for comparison which is a smaller example. Can anyone explain which animal they could have come from?
  15. wellwellwell

    Fish or mammal?

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to get a better idea of the things I keep picking up(looking for?) at the river. I'm also trying to temper my own misguided enthusiasm, which has a tendency to steer me into false confidence. Judging from quantity alone my guess is that four of the objects in the photo are tilly bones of some sort, and two are worn cetacean bulla(I think). I have found many more of the suspected tilly bones, they have no symmetry, they all have a connection point from which bony fibers appear to radiate. At first I thought these to be bulla but my doubts have pressed me to seek a higher authority. The two on the left I believe are worn bulla, the four on the right are examples of the unknown bony beans, and the ruler is in mm. thanks for your time.
  16. hemipristis

    Mystery items from LC: Marine mammal?

    Here are a pair of head-scratchers that I found i at LC. The first is from the Pungo River Fm I thought was a bivalve steinkern, but it is not carbonate, which one would expect in the lime layers of the formation (that, or phosphate, and itisnt phosphate). There is still some matrix on it. So that leaves me with maybe some portion of the bulla/ear region of a marine mammal, but that's purely a guess. The second is from the Pliocene Yorktown Fm, and the material appears to be the same as that of cetacean tympanic bulla. But it doesn't look like one, or like anything Ive seen from a cetacean. Any ideas? thanks
  17. Does anyone have a decent photo or 3 of the earbones to a seal or similar pinniped?
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