Shellseeker Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 I am attempting to reduce the volume of fossils in my collection. Most of these are random fossils from 10-12 years ago stored in Ziploc bags in the back of the closets and under the beds, I try to go through and reduce the number of fossils by 90%. There are a lot of fossils that I should have never kept in the 1st case. I have a friend who collects Turtle and another who takes bags of bones and broken teeth ( and a few good fossils) to donate to schools , fossil clubs, fossil museums, etc and then small shark teeth go to relatives, kids, fossil clubs, etc... I am taking the time to go thru 100s of ziploc bags to find the very few fossils I want to keep. This from 15-20 ziplocs, Only keeping a little: dolphin bullas, Barracuda teeth, Gator teeth, fish skulls, Miocene tiger teeth, and most of this I will not keep. Here are some I almost certainly will keep and I believe I know what they are: 2 3 4 5 It is a lot of fun to find the surprises: Here is a small shark tooth... I thought Hammerhead, but now not sure Most Peace River Shark teeth I recognize.... Now for the ID ... The bag I found this in was labeled May 2010. It looked like maybe turtle , armadillo etc crushed armor but I hback yard ave come to think it is just a rock, and would like thoughts, confirmation. Then I can throw it into the back yard... after 14 years in the ziploc under the bed... Top and Bottom "seemed" non rock_like , especially all those tiny lines on top and tiny holes on bottom. And I had only been hunting 18 months in May of 2010. Excuses, excuses for keeping a rock ... Thanks for any and all comments 4 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 I was thinking Alopias or tresher shark on your shark tooth maybe.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 6 hours ago, Shellseeker said: Here is a small shark tooth... I thought Hammerhead, but now not sure I think it is a slightly deformed Negaprion tooth. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Ooh that’s a very pretty deer premolar Jack! And love the Dasypus osteoderm! The ID piece is a strange one. I think it’s rock due to the lack of any porous structure, but I do see why you would’ve grabbed it to begin with. 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 5 hours ago, Al Dente said: I think it is a slightly deformed Negaprion tooth. Thank you... I would not have thought Negaprion, even though I have found thousands of them in the Peace River. I think I never looked online at those posterior teeth, and if I found one I did not relate it to Lemon shark. Always learning new things... 3 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 It looks like half of my patho tooth, although I couldn't figure out what it was, either. Lemon would make sense. 3 Fin Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 31 minutes ago, Fin Lover said: It looks like half of my patho tooth, although I couldn't figure out what it was, either. Lemon would make sense. Has your patho tooth been identified? The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debivort Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Good luck with your sorting project @Shellseeker. I think we're all in for a treat seeing the highlights you keep. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 41 minutes ago, Shellseeker said: Has your patho tooth been identified? No, I didn't even post it for ID, just stuck it in my gallery. Fin Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 3 hours ago, debivort said: Good luck with your sorting project @Shellseeker. I think we're all in for a treat seeing the highlights you keep. Well, I did a little more today... Much different based on the fossils I was going thru... I was keeping more fossils because there were more "good" fossils and lots more little teeth.... This slowed me down..... The dolphin tooth I showed from yesterday "fits" really well but I no longer know if they were found in the same spot. I also decided to keep the best Meg I came across . There are LOTS of broken Megs ... The 1st Interesting find of today... Somewhat surprising that I would leave a tooth this nice in the Ziploc, but back when I was hunting every day, the time to determine "best fossils" was about 10 minutes. Next up was a Ziploc that only contained 10 Fossils...maybe I had time to select "best" the day I fund these.. I seem to recall joking that I could use the Mastodon fragment as Opera glasses. But now, can not recall where/when I actually found these.. The Meg ALMOST looks like a "Hubbell Meg" and has an interesting Cusp.... I kept the modern Cow premolar for Identification purposes and tossed the Mammoth frag into he "donation" bag. Decisions... decisions 4 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Good material for a rolling auction to support the forum... 2 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 3 nice sea bream frontals in the first photo, to the right of the glyptodont scute. This material would be good for a rolling auction to support the forum... 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted July 12 Author Share Posted July 12 11 hours ago, hemipristis said: 3 nice sea bream frontals in the first photo, to the right of the glyptodont scute. This material would be good for a rolling auction to support the forum... I think it is a good idea. Summer is always my crazy season, with traveling , vacations, and trying to squeeze more hunting trips in before the rains and deep water arrives. Late August would be a good time to do that... "sea bream" ?? I realized that they were fish skulls, but never IDed to species. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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