Simsville42 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 These are some items we found and I have no idea what they are. Any help would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Most of the black pieces are bone fragments or phosphate chunks. There are a couple of shark teeth in there. Between the pennies is a spent bullet. The white thing is a grass carp pharyngeal(?) tooth. But my fave is right below the lower penny: a fragment of mastodon tooth! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) 1 penny 2 grass carp pharyngeal(?) tooth 3 turtle shell 4 soft shelled turtle shell (Trionyx) 5 6 penny 7 8 bullet (used) 9 10 11 12 a fragment of mastodon tooth 13 14 15 16 17 18 Edited November 13, 2014 by tmaier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I have to disagree with 3 & 4. 3 looks more like a fragment of a large mammal bone to me. And 4 is too light on detail for me to see much more than a phosphate bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm pretty sure about 3 and 4, I have a lot of that material from Venice Beach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simsville42 Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 Wow! Thanks guys! We have a ton more pieces that aren't identifiable by me at all. I only recognize the shark teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 There are a lot of fossilized bones that are just fragments, and hard to identify beyond being bone. You should post them anyway, because the people here can really identify that stuff, but not everything. What I do with all the fossil bones is to make a Victorian curio display out of it by using an attractive jar, like this antique canning jar, and then display the bones in it. On a cold winter day you can dump them out on a table and they become pieces to puzzle over, over a hot mocha java. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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