What is your coolest fossil?

[GatorBoy]

Wow man! That's awesome!
Don't see much of old "shovel tusk"

 

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[Sundancer]

Wow man! That's awesome!
Don't see much of old "shovel tusk"

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My dive buddy Cris found this Gomph vert just a couple feet away. These were under about 3 feet of sand... very hard work to get to them. I'm certain more of him is there, but we just have not gone back to that spot yet. That is a quarter on the vert for size.

 

[GatorBoy]

Holy crap.. pitch a tent there next time.

 

[Perico]

Very nice find! I love to dive and dig for fossils as well. Wish I had more time to get out and look.

 

[Sundancer]

Holy crap.. pitch a tent there next time.

If I told you where this spot is GatorBoy, you'd have a good laugh about that last comment. But I'm sworn to secrecy.

 

[GatorBoy]

Ha! ...Tell no one!
I know I wouldn't.

 

[DarkwaterDiver]

Well Ninjafossil I found this Sabor Tooth a couple of years ago. It sure made my Day.

 

[Sundancer]

Awesome!
I know we have them here.. but I've never found even a broken one. What I'd REALLY like is a piece of Titanis Walleri..

 

[the creek gang]

Found tooth in creek. Anyone have an idea as to what animal it came from?

 

[GatorBoy]

You should really start your own thread.. asking that question, that way more people will see that you have a question.
The tooth doesn't look fossilized .. and I would guess that it came from a wild boar.

 

[the creek gang]

You should really start your own thread.. asking that question, that way more people will see that you have a question.
The tooth doesn't look fossilized .. and I would guess that it came from a wild boar.

Thanks, never thought of a wild boar, must of been from long ago, we don't have them around here, central kentucky.

 

[GatorBoy]

I'm only guessing.. I'm a Florida boy so boar came to mind.. it could be a domestic pig.. or something totally different ..it looks like pig of some kind to me.

 

[Jessicamae3]

The manatee tooth I knew nothing about and tossed off into my yard somewhere as junk. Ignorance WAS bliss!

I have justified the mistake by actualizing that someone will find it one day and have a treasure....that and the redfish, trout, flounder, and sheepshead bones they dig up in my back yard one day...

 

[GatorBoy]

LOL... I didn't know you live in my house!?

 

[Jessicamae3]

Gator boy, I am the "rock hound" of the bunch. Ha!!! I use that word loosely.
It was black and didn't look real. Now I am a rock hound and "fossil finder".
Learning every day!

 

[GatorBoy]

I hope you find it again.
I do a lot of fossil hunting.. and don't come across them very often.

 

[Jessicamae3]

Ugh, seriously...

It was I guess half of one. Looked a like this only half of one and not a full two together. More black than white. Does that make it less painful?


Gator boy, I assume you are in Florida? I found this in a pile of deep sand. That orangish brownish deeper than dirty or white sand. I am working around an inactive small sinkhole. I fear snakes so I stay clear of heavy brush...maybe this winter I will get braver?
I will keep my eye open and let you know when and if I find another. I will send it to you.












Coral Fossil or igneous rock?



This stuff floats

 

[Peyton Manning]

The manatee tooth I knew nothing about and tossed off into my yard somewhere as junk. Ignorance WAS bliss!

I have justified the mistake by actualizing that someone will find it one day and have a treasure....that and the redfish, trout, flounder, and sheepshead bones they dig up in my back yard one day...

note she doesn't mention nor deny there are human bones there as well..

 

[Jessicamae3]

What? You saw nothing!!! You can not prove it!!

 

[GatorBoy]

Yeah..I'm in Florida too..and also do alot of fishing.. feel free to P.M. me.. I don't want to turn this thread into our chat..LOL.
It looks like you have two pieces of limestone there..one with a shell impression and the other is what was left behind after it filled the cavity of a clam shell then the shell deteriorated away.
The pieces that float look like pummice.
Its not natural in Florida but alot of it wound up here after some major volcanic eruptions through the centuries ..from south America I think it traveled the gulf stream through what is now the Florida straights and up the east coast.. " when water levels were alot different.