Miatria Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 A beautiful Friday on the Peace River yielded a baby mammoth tooth! The photo is the top chewing surface, still sandy from the river. I also found my best river meg to date, 2" on the diagonal, and 2 tapir caps which, as a newbie fossiler, exactly doubles my collection of tapir caps. Thanks to the guidance of Shellseeker and another esteemed fossil friend who granted guidance and access to a more remote location. 1 Zookeeperfossils.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Wow...you folks are making me quite jealous! Wouldn't I love to keep a mammoth tooth in my pocket to show kids (of all ages)?! "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...
CBOB Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Great finds there Miatria! I just booked a 3 day/2 night camping trip on the Peace in a few weeks. Hopefully I will have the same luck as yourself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Nice!!! Congrats! I would be super excited if I found a mammoth tooth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Great finds, the Peace from time to time gives up it's treasures. Folks don't realize the amount of screening and back breaking shoveling that is involved to make a score. Loved this time of the year in the Peace, the smell of orange blossoms fills the air. Thanks for sharing------Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Great finds! That makes all the hard work worth it for sure 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...
Shellseeker Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Great finds, the Peace from time to time gives up it's treasures. Folks don't realize the amount of screening and back breaking shoveling that is involved to make a score. Loved this time of the year in the Peace, the smell of orange blossoms fills the air. Thanks for sharing------Tom Tom, you definitely have wisdom born of experience. Shoveling next to Miatria is an experience. This woman is dedicated! Digging for hours, then stashing the best finds in her kayak, grabbing lunch (apple), taking a bite and back to shoveling -- repeat for 6-7 hours. This is orange blossom time in Florida -- as they used to say in an old beer commercial "It just doesn't get any better than this". The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Kudos on the baby mammoth tooth! That kind of persistence always has its rewards. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busyeagle Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Awesome finds, seeing those would make anyone want to give the Peace a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miatria Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Great finds, the Peace from time to time gives up it's treasures. Folks don't realize the amount of screening and back breaking shoveling that is involved to make a score. Loved this time of the year in the Peace, the smell of orange blossoms fills the air. Thanks for sharing------Tom It's true, you gotta MOVE gravel! Get in the zone and dig. :-) I also enjoy that orange blossom smell! Zookeeperfossils.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Oh my, those are wonderful! Congrats! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big2th Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Congratulations on some very special finds, indeed. You are also only the second person that I have heard with your first name (same spelling, too). Best wishes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunt4teeth Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Congrats Miatria, on the baby Mammoth tooth! I never realized how small the baby teeth could be, amazing find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyfossil Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Congratulations! Fossil gods were kind to you:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Sweet baby mammoth. On my very first weekend in the river I found a baby mammoth tooth similar to yours. The person who helped identify it for me called it a 'spit tooth' I'm assuming because this baby tooth soon gets replaced by the next set of (larger) teeth. Elephants have unusual dentitions (compared to ours anyway) each half of the jaw (both top and bottom) have their teeth on sort of a conveyor system where a new tooth erupts from the back and the older teeth wear down and fall out from the front. In its lifetime an elephant will have 6 (or sometimes 7) sets of these teeth (each subsequently larger than the last). Once the supply of teeth run out the elephant is doomed (limiting its lifespan). "busyeagle's" comments above gave me the idea that I should get shirts made up with the slogan "Give Peace a chance..." corny but true.... -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Very nice finds - well done! I can't recall having seen a mammoth tooth that small before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rylawz Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 wowza Post your Proboscidea!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down under fossil hunter Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 That baby tooth is very cool, what a fossiliferous location. You are super lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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