Florida’s Fossils
A group about fossils found in Florida
examples: shark teeth, shells, and vertebrate & invertebrate fossils!!!
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2 days, 12 hours agoPenny Earl posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Penny Earl has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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3 days, 14 hours agoJack Kallmeyer posted an update in the group Florida’s Fossils@tim-collins Great find! My collecting at Venice with a Florida snow shovel yielded interesting material but no Meg teeth
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I found mine back around 2000, so maybe the area’s been picked over? It was sticking out of a small shelf of sand that ran along the water where the waves had eaten away at the beach.
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My stuff came from a family vacation years ago. They’re actually from Casperson (?) beach just south from Venice Beach proper. I unfortunately left my car unlocked in the excitement of getting to the beach and we got robbed. Ahhh, good times.
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4 days, 2 hours agoSam Hicks joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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4 days, 16 hours agoTim Collins posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Tim Collins has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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@tim-collins– what indicates ‘juvenile’ versus ‘adult’ in shark teeth? It can’t be size because there is variation in a single set of teeth, correct?
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@jbauer You’re asking the wrong person, lol. That’s just what it was identified to me as when I was a kid, I believe by the purveyors of a local shop selling similar teeth in Venice.
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@tim-collins – no problem we have others around that maybe can help. @vperez, any knowledge on this matter?
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I would say the seller likely called it a juvenile based on size alone. Based on the tooth shape and symmetry, I would say this is likely an upper anterior tooth of Megalodon and, as you likely know, teeth of Megalodon can get much larger than this. Sometimes, juvenile teeth will retain lateral cusplets, but this is a variable feature. I actually have a paper related to that coming out in the beginning of March, so I can share that when it’s available. However, long story short, I would say this is likely from a younger individual just based on size, but there are no definitive features other than that to confirm it.
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Thanks @vperez!
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4 days, 16 hours agoTim Collins joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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5 days, 20 hours agoElizabeth Lukianchikova joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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6 days, 15 hours agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL appMacKenzie Smith has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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6 days, 18 hours agoAnalisa Guay joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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1 week, 1 day agoMatt Tilford posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL appMatt Tilford has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Very nice! How big is this?
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8”x10”x5” at largest points and just under 7#s
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Niiiiice!
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nice!
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Congratulations! I live on the west coast and I dream of traveling to the Peace River myself. Great find!
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL appLori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Neat! I love fossils like this.
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Lori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Lori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Lori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Lori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Lori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 week, 3 days agoLori Baltunis posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
Lori Baltunis has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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1 week, 4 days agoJeanette Pirlo posted an image in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL appCool Florida Fossils trading cards made by Michale Ziegler for our outreach events! We currently have cards on the Terror Bird, dire wolf, short faced bear, giant ground sloth, and Colombian mammoth. More coming in the future! Which ones would you like to see?! #event
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megalodon and gompothere.
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Glyptodon
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1 week, 5 days agoxavier espinosa joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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1 week, 6 days agoMary Boulton joined the group Florida’s Fossils
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2 weeks agoWilliam Anderson posted a new specimen in the group Florida’s Fossils from the myFOSSIL app
William Anderson has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Hi Penny. Looking at some geological maps of the region you are likely in rock from the Carboniferous Period (259-299 Ma). The striations make me think it’s plant. Some candidates may include Calamites (though this would be one of my last picks since I do not see any nodes), Psaronius (a tree fern) or Cordaites (an ancient conifer). If you upload a picture of that broken side on the left for a cross section I might be able to tell. Cross sections can sometimes have cellular detail which is more informative than the outside of a stem. However, it is possible that it didn’t preserve.
Thank you for the great information. Ok here is another pic. I can try again in the sunlight tomorrow if you need more.
After looking – I don’t think the cross section fossilized 🙁
I’m not 100% sure but I’m leaning more to Cordaites since it would have bark. I would need to compare it with known/ID’ed Cordaites wood with external preservation.
Thank you! I’m thrilled to know all of this!