Florida’s Fossils
A group about fossils found in Florida
examples: shark teeth, shells, and vertebrate & invertebrate fossils!!!
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1 week, 2 days agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL appDugong rib bone found in Black Creek FL. #fossil
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3 weeks, 1 day agoHunter Fox joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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3 weeks, 6 days agoJack Kallmeyer posted an update in the group Florida’s FossilsAnyone on here ever see this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_HqYfzIHVo&feature=youtu.be The fellow is collecting fossil shells in Florida at night using UV flashlights. He finds a lot of cone shells with color preservation that only shows with the UV light. Anyone know the age of these fossils or where he might be collecting?
Jack
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I can’t open the link, but I believe it’s the video by PaleoCris? I saw it too, absolutely crazy. I believe Cris mostly hunts in the Nashua Formation (Pliocene) when it comes to shells, but I’m not too sure if this location is also from that formation.
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Max, yes it is paleochris. I don’t know why the link didn’t work so here’s another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_HqYfzIHVo . So whereabouts in Florida is the Nashua Formation?
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Thanks for sharing this video Jack!
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Sure! This is the first time I have seen color patterns show up with UV but these are fairly recent fossils – Pliocene I believe. I have gone somewhat nuts on fluorescent minerals and stumbled on this on one of the sites I check for that phenomena. Many of our fossils have some degree of fluorescence – usually the calcite which gives an orange glow under UV. A certain percentage of manganese and lead impurities within the calcite produce the fluorescence. Some fossils from the west can have a green fluorescence that is caused by a uranium oxide ion impurity. Also, some fluorescent fossils will phosphoresce after the UV is turned off. I have some Ordovician stromatoporoid fossils that do that.
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3 weeks, 6 days agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
This is a Barraccuda tooth found in Black Creek FL. #fossil
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4 weeks, 1 day agoSadie Mills posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL appFossils in plain sight! These were found on the UF campus embedded in limestone. #fossil
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1 month agoChristopher Allison joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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1 month agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
“Rib segment” mammoth or mastadon. #fossil
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here is the flip side zoomed out @jeannette-pirlo
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Looks rib like!
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Thank you @jeannette-pirlo, you are so very helpful. 😉
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1 month agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
I’m not 100% positive but I’m pretty sure this is a segment of a rib bone from an elephant either mastadon or mammoth, I found Black Creek FL. #fossil
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It’s hard to tell in this picture. Could you upload a couple more that are further zoomed out and maybe of the flip side of this?
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sure thing. @jeanette-pirlo
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1 month agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
MacKenzie Smith has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 month agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
This is an agatized coral arrowhead I found in Black Creek FL. The tip is broke off but by the age of the break it appears that it was broke and discarded by the owner/maker which to me is a whole piece. One of my favorite finds.
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@daniel-murrhee, @cferrara I thought there were some overbearing rules about artifact collecting in Florida. As in you better not do it. Yes – No? Cool find though. I’d keep it.
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Yeah it’s illegal but what am I supposed to do throw it back in the creek, I don’t think so. 😊 @jkallmeyer
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I’m with you. It seems that some regulations have gotten out of hand. Up here you can pick any artifact up you can find except out of graves. It’s like fossils – a fossil not collected is lost forever –
no one benefits. In your case you can always tell them you collected a fossil coral not an artifact 🙂
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Throwing it back I feel would be the utmost disrepect to our history.
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1 month, 1 week agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Look at the size of this enchinoderm! It’s broken in half but It’s about 5 inches wide, usually I find them dime or half dollar size. Found in Penny Farms FL. sticking out of the dirt road. #fossil
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1 month, 1 week agoJon Frangiosa joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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1 month, 1 week agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
This is my happy place. It’s rough out there, very dense woods and let me tell ya… I’m feeling it today. I always come back home hurt but to me It’s well worth it! We didn’t find much of anything yesterday but we still had a great time.😊 “Black Creek” #collection_site
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1 month, 1 week agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
It is hard to take a picture to show the proper dimensions of a specimen sometimes, I had a hard time with these two. These are fragments of a Mastadon tooth I found in Black Creek FL. #fossil
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1 month, 1 week agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
This here is a wrist bone to a mastadon or mammoth elephant that I found in Black Creek FL. #fossil
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1 month, 1 week agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
This old Meg tooth was given to me, It was found in the early 60’s during the dredging of the Shands Bridge in Green Cove Springs, FL. #fossil #event
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1 month, 1 week agoDaniel Murrhee posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Hi everybody. 😊 I been finding fossils in Florida for 25 years and I’m still not well versed in all the Latin names or taxonomy lol, so please feel free to correct me anytime, some pieces I have still elude me.. I will definitely be posting some questionmarks. ??? This here though is a beautiful Stingray plate I found in Black Creek, Fl. #fossil
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Hi @daniel-murrhee and welcome! No need to worry about getting the names right, many of us (including myself!) are still learning too. Beautiful stingray plate you’ve got there!
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Thank you @sadie-mills! 😊
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