A rare find

[Shellseeker]

Out today with a good friend. It seemed to be his day 5 Horse Teeth, a Bison Astragalus,  and 3 decent Megs...On the 1st sieve, I found an incisor  and an hour later a small predator astragalus.  The rest of my day was mostly small shark teeth until the very end.  We went to a spot where we had super success for a couple of years and coming back first time this season.. It has 6 or 8 feet of large fossil producing gravel,  but 4 feet of sand had rolled over that gravel and added about 4 inches of new gravel on top of the stand but that gravel contained few fossils beside those small teeth...

 

Here is the incisor... I think it is Llama, but very small. Could it be wild pig?

 

and the Predator astragalus...  Harry identified a very similar one as Raccoon 2 years back,

 

 

and finally the star of my day,

 

This is a Miocene fossil (7-14 mya) and Rare !! Only my 5th in 15 years .  A great reward for my efforts today... A high quality tooth, barely erupted...

 

[Danielb]

Nice find.

[Tidgy's Dad]

I like the dugong tooth, we see billions of rib bits, but not a lot of their teeth.

Edited November 9, 2023 by Tidgy's Dad

[Fossildude19]

Great finds, Jack!

That racoon astragalus is neat looking also!

[Balance]

Thanks for the post! 
 

So, because of the changes to the ground scape you mentioned, does this spot go into Jack’s memory to check a few years from now, or does the river bottom move enough each year to make a regular check in worth the time? 
 

I ask because I noticed several areas in my current hunting stretch that I could stand in last week. Last year I couldn’t find the bottom with my pole in one of those spots. In another spot I walked across what was a hugely deep eddy hole last year. Completely filled in this year. So that’s A LOT of movement. Seems just as the sand has raised that area it will have lowered another. 
 

My idea of mapping this stretch is changing. Starting to understand why you generalize an area to a timeframe or materials rather than focus, like I’ve been, on what’s topography is  under the water. By the time I get this season mapped next season is gonna change it all again. 
 

Thanks!

 

Jp

[sixgill pete]

Very nice Jack. Love the dugong tooth. 

[Shellseeker]

11 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I like the dugong tooth, we see billions of rib bits, but not a lot of their teeth.

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 @sixgill peteVery nice Jack. Love the dugong tooth.

 

Exactly,  I consistently hunt the Peace River, across 15 years, I have found 6. Here is the best...Never seen another like it. Enjoy

[Shellseeker]

9 hours ago, Balance said:

Thanks for the post! 

So, because of the changes to the ground scape you mentioned, does this spot go into Jack’s memory to check a few years from now, or does the river bottom move enough each year to make a regular check in worth the time? 
I have acquired a short term focus. This location has delivered 40% of my best Fossils over the last 3-4 years and has not been discovered by others. I have great memories here and if it continues to produce what we found yesterday, I will return occasionally. We generally are OK with just finding small shark teeth.  My hunting friend sells them for income.

 

I ask because I noticed several areas in my current hunting stretch that I could stand in last week. Last year I couldn’t find the bottom with my pole in one of those spots. In another spot I walked across what was a hugely deep eddy hole last year. Completely filled in this year. So that’s A LOT of movement. Seems just as the sand has raised that area it will have lowered another. Exactly,  when sand covers our best gravel spots,  we talk about walking the river going upstream to find where the sand came from...But it depends on how many reliable locations we have...  Sometimes we can delay looking for new locations. Side note : Local Fort Myers TV had a story about a scuba diver who discovered a Mammoth Jaw with 2 teeth in the Peace River last week. From seeing the banks of the river, 1-2 miles below Arcadia. The one tooth shown was black and the biggest Mammoth tooth I have ever seen.

 

My idea of mapping this stretch is changing. Starting to understand why you generalize an area to a timeframe or materials rather than focus, like I’ve been, on what’s topography is  under the water. By the time I get this season mapped next season is gonna change it all again. 
 

In 2013, I connected with my current hunting partner.  He was using a Hookah rig connected to an air compressor to hand scoop gravel from a hole in the riverbed. We hunted there twice a week 2013/2014, generally finding 40-50 Megalodons of various quality each time. The hole was 10 feet below the riverbed and 7-8 feet wide. When we returned after the 2014 summer floods... sand rolled in and completely filled the hole. Have not been back to check in years..

 

I think one of the bigger advantages I has was time... It is like a job.. 40-50 hours hunting week in week out... I seemed to always find more gravel than I had time to dig