mrieder79 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Shawnwashere and I hit Hogtown Creek in Gainesville for an afternoon of sifting. We got a couple hundred teeth between us. All small but it was a nice trip nonetheless. The weather was fantastic and the water was clear. It was especially exciting for me because it was my first real creek trip. Sifting a creek is a nice change from stumbling around dredge piles or trying to pick teeth out of shell spoil. Below are some of my better finds. Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozer operator Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Congrats on your first creek hunt! Nice teeth and thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsessed1 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 NIce teeth! When you are finding a mix of teeth like that you just never know when the next shovel will have a Meg. Keep digging!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Contender Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Great post. Great teeth. I saw a wall hanging today that would pertain to most of us on this forum. I'd rather be found fossil hunting.....than found at home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Nice pieces you've got there,I like that little Hemi Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Nice teeth. They look to be in better condition compared to stuff that comes out of the Peace river. Do you ever sift for micro's? Seems like a lot of folks are doing that now in some of the FL locations. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triops808 Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Those are beautiful finds:) What is that unusual tooth on the bottom left of the picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrieder79 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Nice pieces you've got there,I like that little Hemi I found one juvenile hemi that was maybe 2-3mm. It had a deep red section of enamel close to the root. Very pretty little tooth. Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrieder79 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Nice teeth. They look to be in better condition compared to stuff that comes out of the Peace river. Do you ever sift for micro's? Seems like a lot of folks are doing that now in some of the FL locations. Daryl. I didn't sift for micros but shawnwashere took home a bag of sifted material to go over at home. If I took sifted matrix home my cats would probably poop in it or my kids would eat it or something like that. Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrieder79 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Those are beautiful finds:) What is that unusual tooth on the bottom left of the picture? That is a bad angle on a lower hemi. Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I didn't sift for micros but shawnwashere took home a bag of sifted material to go over at home. If I took sifted matrix home my cats would probably poop in it or my kids would eat it or something like that. That's funny, I wouldn't have thought of that though. I have had my dogs get into my large storage bags of scrap fossils/bones and chew the heck out of them. Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Love those teeth. Any day you are sifting and finding something is a good day. Peace River teeth tend to be uniformly black/gray though the occasional "fresh" fossil (what a term!) that hasn't been out of the matrix too long will have some nice (non-black) coloration to it. Looks like quite a number of your prize teeth have got some nice color to them. Was this the same for the smaller teeth you found as well? One of these days I'll bring my sifter north and check out the creeks up in Gainesville (after a stop to the Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology, of course). Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrieder79 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yes. Almost all the teeth were light blue and cream enamel with a buff root. There were a few darker ones, but mostly light. Most of the teeth I find are the darker color as well and I really appreciated the change. Luck is the most important skill of a fossil diver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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