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I was out hunting yesterday. I can tell because my back hurts today. I have been hunting the Peace River as a preferred choice of my companions lately. They like the extensive quantities of small shark teeth scattered over the river bed. My technique is to go past my digging location, walking downstream with a surveyor's pole in one hand and my kayak leash in the other, probing for gravel. I am feeling for tightly packed gravel. When I locate some, I fill a couple of sieves... lots of vegetation and leaves.... move on. Few/no small teeth... move on. I put 4 shovel fulls on the sieve, and looking for 12-16 small teeth. Once I locate a spot, dig deep.... 1st productive spot. It was not fantastic, but at least I was not digging in discards. The larger Tortoise osteoderm was mostly unworn, and that's a 1.5 inch hemipristis.. By itself that was worth my effort. My hunting companion was not finding much and he decided to go downstream, so I followed. .. more probing for hard packed gravel, containing fossils... Started with small teeth, but occasionally osteoderms (2 beat up glyptodon and one armadillo). I also like that tiger shark tooth, a larger than normal find for that section of the river. Then this odd bone showed up.... I think it is a Tilly Bone, but I never have seen one like it before. By now, with probing, digging , finding used up 5 of the 6 hours we usually dig and leaving for the day is coming up fast. It has been a very nice day weather wise, sunny and mostly warm. and I have found some good fossils along with the small shark teeth, and I am pleased with that upper Hemi ... hard to find at that size and quality any more. Then this... By the time I got the camera, that little bug had landed on my rock pile..... and quickly crawled onto the 1.5 inch Meg... I do not usually get excited by small Megs, but this one made my day. A small colorful Meg with great serrations, slight tip damage and CUSPS !!!! There were a couple of fossils hunters who came from Clearwater and kayaked by as I was packing to leave. I told them I would add this Meg photo on TFF. All in all, a great day in the Sunshine.

Found this a while back in Aurora in the piles at the museum. It has cusps but no serrations was a little puzzled about what it might be from that location.