Shell Pile Find!

[BeachComber7]

Found this in a shell pile today at the beach! It's a nice old horse tooth!

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice find...the next couple days should be real good for fossils with the south wind. Then the swell from the soon to be hurricane should start to show up by the weekend.the surf websites are calling for a peak on Sunday of ten feet. That should stir things up.

 

[BeachComber7]

Ten feet will definitely stir things up!

 

[Jason in Enid]

Very cool find!

 

[skalleewag]

nice one...looks like mine,

 

[BeachComber7]

Thanks Mike. I found another one today but it is much smaller and square, so I think it is an upper molar or tooth.
Have you been out lately?

 

[Harry Pristis]

Thanks Mike. I found another one today but it is much smaller and square, so I think it is an upper molar or tooth.
Have you been out lately?

Both teeth, the first and this latest find, appear to be upper Equus sp. teeth. While Equus in other regions may be slightly older (Late Pliocene), in Florida they are usually Pleistocene (less than 2 Ma). [Ma = Mega anna or million years]

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[BeachComber7]

So Harry, is that about 2 million years old or a tad less? Thanks for looking at the pics. Though I understand these are 'common' finds
on the treasure coast, I comb those shell piles a lot and these are my first two.

 

[GatorBoy]

He is just using scientific words when you probably wont know what he is talking about. Its a horse...just an early one obviously.

 

[Harry Pristis]

Between two Ma and 10 Ka . . . it's impossible to say with isolated float teeth (impossible for me, anyway). [float = without any taphonomic context]

I understand that the thrill of discovery is relative to the experience of the finder. I just don't always remember that axiom.

 

[GatorBoy]

That's a good one... Alot of people are very happy they have not lost that thrill.