moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Well all my life is now sorted I just need a job!!!!!! I have been busy sorting my collection and digitising bits and pieces Here are the pics of what i found in 4 trips to The gainesville creeks and 3 dives plus a very small snorkel in the Santa Fe River. I mention the snorkel as it was my first introduction to to the river, and its scary weed and turtles and fish etc. I found two of my mastadon teeth fragments right at the boat ramp I was so pleased!!! i havent taken photos of the broken stuff or the stuff I gave away to family and friends when i got back... rulers are in CM- Metric all the way over here Firstly my megs Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 The previous were all the different megs. here are the smaller ones Small Megs Mako Snaggle tooth Lemon shark tiger shark and a whole bunch of mixed ones. there maybe something interesting in there Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 These are some of the bones from Gainesville, Whale vert and earbone and a dugong rib. I also found ray plates, crocodile teeth that are in one of my other posts, fish vert a bit of dolphin jaw crab leg and a three toed horse tooth but none would take good pics!!!! they looked like blobs. if any one wants to see them i could try again Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Santa fe River finds - giant beaver teeth I was quite excited about these because I didn't know they existed!! -dire wolf bone. if anyone can show me a pic of another of these dire wolf bones id like to see it it - dont think it is the giant sloth because when me and Cris went to the museum it was really huge it must be the ordinary one!! Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 - camel/llama foot bone and as im learning how to use this i can add them directly under their names lol mammoth teeth frags Mammoth Bone and ivory Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Mastodon teeth Frags Tapir teeth Manatee Sloth teeth Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Shark teeth my fav tooth other than the big meg I found!!! other shark teeth Deer teeth horse and mammal Big bird bone? please help with this one it looks interesting.. i may be totally wrong yeah and by the way if my descriptions are wrong for any of these please tell me... i really want to know. I will certainly not be offended i wan to learn more. I only had 10 days in florida. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Fish jaws.. these are really cool Alligator..... I did see a few live ones lol Small bones bird fish and turtle Please tell me what you think if you can ID them Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 A very Interesting tail vert My assumption is that it is from a wolf......please I would love to know. I first thought it was from a cat lol and I may even be mistaken that its a tail vert... Giant armadillo scute a very cool alligator snapping turtle jaw- is it a giant one? possible racoon tooth? just put it put there i have no clue Rodent jaw - looks muskrat but again thats a guess Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 the ever present turtle... its so cool to find though I kept heaps of it. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 This is the miscellaneous stuff. well the better looking of it i got bags of it, but these are the pieces that could be identified there is deer in one but there could be some other cool animal lol so the tooth i have no idea what it might be Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 one more bone have no idea Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 thats It . I now will try to take photos of my NZ collection and put it in the collections area. this was from one big fossil trip to florida..... I loved it so much!!! Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffie Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Thanks for sharing your finds. Great haul, I enjoyed looking. Looks like a busy 10 days. Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THobern Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Well, you ticked megalodon teeth off the bucket list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Great job! : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrimitivePast Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Pretty hemipristis teeth. Did you sift or surface hunt the creeks? They are awesome to explore after a strong rain. Great job finding the manatee teeth. Did you notice an audience of fish around you as you hunted the Santa Fe river bottom? They always tend to stay close hoping you will stir up a snack. http://www.primitivepast.com https://www.facebook.com/PrimitivePast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricFlorida Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 The tooth you have labeled as "C. auriculatus" is actually a mackeral shark tooth (Serratolamna twiggsensis). www.PrehistoricFlorida.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Well done. A good assortment from a variety of Florida sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 The tooth you have labeled as "C. auriculatus" is actually a mackeral shark tooth (Serratolamna twiggsensis). Thanks very Much for that..... Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Pretty hemipristis teeth. Did you sift or surface hunt the creeks? They are awesome to explore after a strong rain. Great job finding the manatee teeth. Did you notice an audience of fish around you as you hunted the Santa Fe river bottom? They always tend to stay close hoping you will stir up a snack. Me and Cris and Sundancer Sifted the heck out of one part of one creek. until there was no more sifting to be done and our bodies were sore!!!!!!! We also walked another creek where i got the earbone (out of someone elses sift spoil ) and the orange Meg on the surface. yeah I loved the fish in the river. we dont have fish like that over here. we found a baby lobster and it got eaten straight away.. felt bad for it... The turtles were amazing too.. i didnt see any when I was using the hookah but did see them when snorkelling. The first day I was only looking for big stuff but cris came to the surface with all these teeth and i was like i want some teeth so I started fanning softer and found all the teeth and small things. and spent like 2 hrs in one hole back and forward stuff kept popping out. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoc Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 (edited) So what did your friends back home have to say when you showed them your stuff? The 2 teeth on the right in your tiger shark picture are Physogaleus contortus - an extinct tiger like shark which is an uncommon find for Florida (more common north of Florida) The bottom right thing is your bird bone picture may be a crocodile (vice gator) tooth. Need to see a better image and the bottom of the thick end to confirm. Edited July 27, 2012 by Paleoc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Big bird bone? please help with this one it looks interesting.. i may be totally wrong It doesn't leap out at me as something from a bird; I can't place it in the avian skeletal structure. Maybe views from other angles would help. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 It doesn't leap out at me as something from a bird; I can't place it in the avian skeletal structure. Maybe views from other angles would help. I have been thinking bout it I got it wrong I think, I think its more likely to be alligator now. Ill get some pics up once it gets sunny again. Thanks!!!!!!! Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 So what did your friends back home have to say when you showed them your stuff? The 2 teeth on the right in your tiger shark picture are Physogaleus contortus - an extinct tiger like shark which is an uncommon find for Florida (more common north of Florida) The bottom right thing is your bird bone picture may be a crocodile (vice gator) tooth. Need to see a better image and the bottom of the thick end to confirm. OOOh I found a Physogaleus contortus!!!!!!!! Thanks for that!!!!!!! Im so glad Im finding new species in my fossils!!! just doesn't happen here in nz. My friends were jealous, but more jealous of all the artefacts i found in Pennsylvania!!!!!! I came to the states to find arrowheads and came back wit them plus megs and mammoths and everything else and some good friends!!! . I found a couple of arrowheads in fl. walking the fields. Ill see if I can get better pics of that tooth thing up. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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