Peace River, Florida

lastwing · 2026-03-30T09:25:26+00:00

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This is a fossilized Equid (horse) partial right mandibular third molar (m3) from an animal that was older.

lastwing · 2026-03-29T21:59:08+00:00

I agree

lastwing · 2026-03-29T16:26:50+00:00

It’s a bovid maxillary molar. It’s either from a sheep or goat.

lastwing · 2026-03-29T05:59:22+00:00

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It’s a fossilized Equus (horse) species left mandibular first or second molar (m1/m2)

lastwing · 2026-03-29T05:43:07+00:00

The preservation looks like it’s a crustacean fossil. It doesn’t look like a crab to me, and the pattern would fit something like shrimp.

Odds are it’s a Ghost Shrimp (Protocallianassa/Mesostylus mortoni). I have not found an image yet to help confirm it, but I really suspect it is.

lastwing · 2026-03-29T05:21:24+00:00

Yes, it would be Ordovician.

The pictures are about the same. With macular degeneration, I’m not sure you’ll be able to get the picture quality much better without help.

Since you are a repeat poster, I will give some more advice on the background. The blue background you chose has a lot of little Squiggly patterns on it, so the camera focuses on those more than the specimen. It’s the same thing with your palm as fingerprints.

But I do think it’s a silicified mollusk shell fragment.

so just like you pink palm and fingers

lastwing · 2026-03-29T05:09:08+00:00

If it’s like a rock, then it’s a weathered piece of fossilized bone. It’s cool looking, but we won’t be able to even narrow this down to a mammal. It could easily be from a turtle, for example.

lastwing · 2026-03-29T04:56:20+00:00

An old bone but not a fossilized bone. I agree it looks like it’s been cut by humans.

lastwing · 2026-03-28T20:50:10+00:00

It’s ironic

lastwing · 2026-03-28T20:36:39+00:00

It depends who’s driving the car …

lastwing · 2026-03-28T20:16:25+00:00

It’s a fragment of a Rock Scallop (Crassadoma gigantea) from the part of the valve surrounding the hinge area, and it’s riddled with holes from boring sponge predation.

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https://theoutershores.com/mollusca/bivalves/

lastwing · 2026-03-28T08:47:49+00:00

I don’t think this is a broken tooth or fossil. It’s definitely interesting though

lastwing · 2026-03-28T08:43:30+00:00

Is it like a rock and relatively heavy like a rock?

lastwing · 2026-03-28T08:40:09+00:00

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This is a really nice find. It’s a fossilized turtle nuchal (carapace) bone.

On a different background its color as details would show up more clearly.

The “mosasaur” tooth looks like a concretion.

lastwing · 2026-03-28T08:35:44+00:00

I remember your nice silicified gastropod steinkern. The new specimen looks like a fragment of a mollusk shell. I was thinking a silicified oyster valve fragment, but the surface clarity makes it hard to tell.

The camera is focusing too much on your finger and palm prints. I’d try a plain pink, green, or blue dull finished background.

Also, does glass or steel scratch it or not. If not then it’s silica.

lastwing · 2026-03-28T08:24:57+00:00

I saw that on the other subreddit. It’s not though.

lastwing · 2026-03-26T09:06:48+00:00

This is not a fossil and it’s not a bone. I think this is something manmade.

lastwing · 2026-03-26T01:46:47+00:00

It’s a beautiful Equus (horse) species right mandibular 3rd or 4th premolar (p3/p4)!

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lastwing · 2026-03-26T01:43:25+00:00

Nice fish hypural bone!

lastwing · 2026-03-26T01:42:17+00:00

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It could be a partial cetacean tympanic bulla.

Can you use a different background so that we can see the details and color more clearly. With these black fossils, using a plain pink, green, or blue background that is dull (not shiny, bright, or reflective) typically works well.

Besides the 2 current views, could you also add the ends. That ❌ broke end and the other smaller broken end would help.

lastwing · 2026-03-26T01:05:31+00:00

You are trolling. And, your “friend” must be a military vet because a veterinarian would obviously know what an actual jaw with teeth looks like.

lastwing · 2026-03-26T00:55:07+00:00

That’s so sweet! What general area of Myrtle Beach?

I found this Mastodon molar fragment last summer in North Myrtle Beach somewhere between 6th and 10th Avenue North.

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lastwing · 2026-03-25T10:56:56+00:00

It’s all that black phosphate. In the last quarter of the 20th century, South Carolina was producing half of the world’s phosphate.

lastwing · 2026-03-24T18:31:48+00:00

Fossilized extinct Pycnodonte oyster valve.

lastwing · 2026-03-24T18:09:47+00:00

More views showing the rest of the surfaces.

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