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From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene
The isolated teeth from the Drum (Pogonias sp) are very common in the gravel. The crown tends to be black and shiny but the teeth come in a variety of shapes from broad and flat to small conical and sometimes with a point or crest in the center. They are set in a bony plate and have a straight sided root, although it is commonly missing. -
Had a big rain and a major windstorm (lost power a couple of hours), even though the wind was from the south (and I much prefer winter north winds for my beach) had to check. A bit disappointing, tooth-wise although I did find a mako and a big shrimp coprolite burrow, and five small teeth (and some old pottery shards). Tried the creek at an old spot, where I hadn't had much recent luck, but the rain had deposited teeth in one spot and weakened the bank in another where I dug around and found some teeth but mostly bone bits and a few interesting steinkerns (with some glossy surfaces, one an obvious snail shell, another with shrimp coprolites.) Found one ALMOST complete cowshark tooth, four angel shark teeth and a bunch of drum 'teeth' and several sandshark teeth, plus four verts and a lot of skate teeth, most broken. Better than usual hunting. First scan is of the bigger stuff (not counting bones or shells, who asked that I pick up some for her kids): the cow shark, mako, a lemon(?) and tiger shark, plus a weird concretion, a Tilly bone and two vertebra, the top one with an odd loop. For the mantis shrimp coprolites, notice they tend to be thicker in the burrow than in the steinkern below.
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Headed back to the creek; local kids have been busy, a lot of energy into digging, and changing channels in the creek bed. At one spot I saw something barely protruding above the sand, looked to be a huge mako! BUT, it was just a sliver; i had the tip and probably most of the 2" blade edge (no serrations), and no root. The story of my life! Looked hard for more, but nothing. Found three angel shark teeth, one with an unusually big base, a bunch of mostly broken drum teeth. Found the usual sand tiger sharks, a couple of heavy based tiger shark teeth (rare in the creek), skate teeth pieces and one partial stinger, two fin Tilly bones, a broken bonito nose, some elongated "teeth" (at least one had enamel on the tip end), two vertebrae and two vert pieces, and assorted gray shark and requiem shark teeth. Some stuff is small fossil, but no idea what it is. Found one heavy 8" bone, guessing cow. Great to be out, saw birds eggs in a nest, lots of frogs and a few salamanders, crayfish and lots of scuds/freshwater shrimp..
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Out of action for a bit, but figured a good time to post what I have been collecting since coming back from Singapore summer of 2018. Starting with sandtiger shark teeth, since they are the most common here. Really like the little hook cusps which I seldom see on both sides on the biggest teeth. Cusps are most prominent (but often nubs) on the lateral(?) medium sized wider, root teeth. Symphyseal teeth are not that rare (wish they were cowshark!); often I think one is a split tooth until I examine it carefully; the roots are distinctive. The small teeth may include a few that are not sandtiger, but I'm thinking since they are most common, many of the non-descript small teeth probably are sandtiger. Scale shown for all the teeth in first photo is in cm.
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Here are some micro finds from a recent trip to a Paleocene site on the Potomac river. The drum tooth is the first drum tooth I have found and it was my second find of the day!
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Eocene aged Meridian Mississippi micro fossils (mostly shark teeth)
britishcanuk posted a topic in Fossil ID
A fellow TFF member gave me some micro material from the Eocene, Meridian Mississippi . I don't know much about micro fossils so was hoping to get some info on the following? Which were all photographed next to a US nickel. photos 1 and 2