Horses

[Shellseeker]

Out hunting Monday.  The days of the year are passing quickly. Here is a place that is more likely early Pleistocene, where it is possible to collect the transition of horse teeth.

I found many small shark teeth including Hemipristis, Mako,  Bull , Dusky, and large G cuvier Tigers.. It is always enjoyable to pick up 5 or 6 from a sieve when other fossils are less frequent.  Here are those other fossils.  It is a mixture of some bones ( Calcaneum, long leg bone) I would like to identify, some broken fossils (Glyptodont, Armadillo, Mammoth) , even some curious looking rocks (toss in the sieve, investigate later)..

 

some fossils from the seas that used to cover Florida.... Just sharing what falls into my sieve...

 

My last 5 times out, I have been finding 1 really nice upper Hemi.  Here is Monday's entry (above).... but I gave this thread the title of Horses

 

A wolf tooth (Canine present in Stallions,  helpful for fighting other Stallions for a female)... These are pretty rare find for me,  maybe once a year and this one is kind of distinctive,  narrow, longer than normal

 

A broken tridactly horse upper tooth,  probably Nannippus peninsulatus.  I really love finding these... Takes me back to great fossil hunting memories.

 

Then a very small Non tridactyl tooth...  I wonder if this is the transitional horse that @fossillarry occasionally references. They all look like Equus, but it is the small size that is grabbing my attention.

 

and then a couple of more normal sized Equus Teeth...  that are 26 and 27 APL respectively

 

Enjoy....

[Bjohn170]

Very nice finds as always!  

[Shellseeker]

21 minutes ago, Bjohn170 said:

Very nice finds as always!  

Thanks !! Some locations tend to produce higher quality , more complete fossils,  but even with a location both quality and breakage vary... 

There is still a great deal of luck involved and that is really apparent when hunting with another friend. 

[C2fossils]

Nice finds!

[Balance]

Dream day… Not kidding, I’d prefer a handful of horse stuff to a huge shark tooth any day. 
 

Not sure about the hemorrhoid rock. You can keep that.  

 

Is that a hoof core in there? Like a deer or something? I’d say claw but we both know I’m not allowed to ID claws right now. 

 

Glyptodont is so close to full!! 
 

Thanks , Jack

 

Jp

 

 

Edited December 7, 2023 by Balance

[Shellseeker]

42 minutes ago, Balance said:

Is that a hoof core in there? Like a deer or something? I’d say claw but we both know I’m not allowed to ID claws right now. 

 

Glyptodont is so close to full!! 

There is a texture like a hoof core in the 2 yellow circles. Neither is the shape of a Horse hoof core...  There are 2 Glyptodont fossils , in blue..

Upper right Glyptodont looks like this...

[Balance]

This interesting thing was what I thought looked like a deer hoof core. Maybe a single side of a split toed type larger mammal. 

[Shellseeker]

8 hours ago, Balance said:

This interesting thing was what I thought looked like a deer hoof core. Maybe a single side of a split toed type larger mammal. 

I need to display better... Chunk of Mammoth....

 

laying on a bone likely gator by texture..

[sixgill pete]

Great finds Jack. So many horse teeth, I have found 3 in 20 years here in N.C. I do love that really nice Hemipristis though!!

[Shellseeker]

22 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

Great finds Jack. So many horse teeth, I have found 3 in 20 years here in N.C. I do love that really nice Hemipristis though!!

Wow... Horse (Equus) teeth rare in NC ? A new concept to me. Horse teeth are one of or the most common Pleistocene land mammal tooth here in Florida.

 

I also admire upper Hemipristis teeth in my sieve, especially the larger ones.  This one a land find..