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Slingshot Bob

Slingshot Bob

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I am an avid fossil hunter here in SW Fl. The peace river is known as the valley of bones.

I was in 5 ft deep water today, was swimming down and blindly "racooning" Found some dugong (ancient, extinct, giant manatee) rib bones, common, find.

I am to buoyant, and need a about 20 pounds of lead on my waist. Also, an 8 ft 2 inch, snorkel would help.

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Slingshot Bob said:
I am an avid fossil hunter here in SW Fl. The peace river is known as the valley of bones.

I was in 5 ft deep water today, was swimming down and blindly "racooning" Found some dugong (ancient, extinct, giant manatee) rib bones, common, find.

I am to buoyant, and need a about 20 pounds of lead on my waist. Also, an 8 ft 2 inch, snorkel would help.

Here is some of this years findsView attachment 67216964View attachment 67216965View attachment 67216966View attachment 67216967View attachment 67216969
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Bully for you! I recognize a herbivore moral in those pics.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
I am an avid fossil hunter here in SW Fl. The peace river is known as the valley of bones.

I was in 5 ft deep water today, was swimming down and blindly "racooning" Found some dugong (ancient, extinct, giant manatee) rib bones, common, find.

I am to buoyant, and need a about 20 pounds of lead on my waist. Also, an 8 ft 2 inch, snorkel would help.

Here is some of this years findsView attachment 67216964View attachment 67216965View attachment 67216966View attachment 67216967View attachment 67216969
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nice! i've always been into fossils. i don't have an extensive collection at this point, though. Mom and i both really dig fossilized amber. i have a polished piece with some insects (termites, possibly) in it. it's really fascinating to look at.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
There is a camel tooth pictured.
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A camel fossil in Florida, who would have thought? (Actually, it is really amazing the amount of climate change the Earth has undergone over the millennia).
 
eohrnberger said:
A camel fossil in Florida, who would have thought? (Actually, it is really amazing the amount of climate change the Earth has undergone over the millennia).
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Probably looked more like a llama than what we today think of as a camel.

Then again....perhaps not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelops

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eohrnberger said:
A camel fossil in Florida, who would have thought? (Actually, it is really amazing the amount of climate change the Earth has undergone over the millennia).
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There were also bison and glyptodant(ancient VW sized armadillo) and dire wolf and mastodon and even a ground sloth that was bigger than mastodon (ankle bones as big as a bowling ball) About 10'000 years ago, there was a big extinction event. Even bison fossils are present in my collection.
 
Very cool collection. The more you have to work to find a piece to add to your collection the more satisfying it is. And it sounds like you put some work into it.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
About 10,000 years ago (last ice age) we had a mass extinction event, not just in fl.
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Remains mysterious to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event

There are three main hypotheses concerning the Pleistocene extinction:

The animals died off due to climate change associated with the advance and retreat of major ice caps or ice sheets.

The animals were exterminated by humans: the "prehistoric overkill hypothesis" (Martin, 1967).[4]

The extinction of the woolly mammoth (by whatever cause, perhaps by humans) changed the extensive grasslands to birch forests, and subsequent forest fires then changed the climate.[5] We now know that immediately after the extinction of the mammoth birch forests replaced the grasslands and that an era of significant fire began.
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Slingshot Bob said:
I am an avid fossil hunter here in SW Fl. The peace river is known as the valley of bones.

I was in 5 ft deep water today, was swimming down and blindly "racooning" Found some dugong (ancient, extinct, giant manatee) rib bones, common, find.

I am to buoyant, and need a about 20 pounds of lead on my waist. Also, an 8 ft 2 inch, snorkel would help.

Here is some of this years findsView attachment 67216964View attachment 67216965View attachment 67216966View attachment 67216967View attachment 67216969
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Cool, dude.
 
We can learn a lot about the history of the climate by fossils. I have many turtle leg spurs (extinct land tortoise)

They say there presence in the fossil records is evidence, that FL had no freezes in yesteryear, as they could not survive.

Think modern Galapogos tortoises.
 
eohrnberger said:
A camel fossil in Florida, who would have thought? (Actually, it is really amazing the amount of climate change the Earth has undergone over the millennia).
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More like plate tectonics.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
There were also bison and glyptodant(ancient VW sized armadillo) and dire wolf and mastodon and even a ground sloth that was bigger than mastodon (ankle bones as big as a bowling ball) About 10'000 years ago, there was a big extinction event. Even bison fossils are present in my collection.
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Yeah, I believe the extinction event was the Mexico asteroid that came in, the result of which is the K/T boundary layer with a high amount of iridium in that layer, and iridium only comes from asteroids (? - I get that right?)
 
eohrnberger said:
Yeah, I believe the extinction event was the Mexico asteroid that came in, the result of which is the K/T boundary layer with a high amount of iridium in that layer, and iridium only comes from asteroids (? - I get that right?)
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I am really not sure, but I think you refer to the Yucatan penensila.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
I am an avid fossil hunter here in SW Fl. The peace river is known as the valley of bones.

I was in 5 ft deep water today, was swimming down and blindly "racooning" Found some dugong (ancient, extinct, giant manatee) rib bones, common, find.

I am to buoyant, and need a about 20 pounds of lead on my waist. Also, an 8 ft 2 inch, snorkel would help.

Here is some of this years findsView attachment 67216964View attachment 67216965View attachment 67216966View attachment 67216967View attachment 67216969
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Wow, very cool. Do you sell any of your collection?
 
americanwoman said:
Wow, very cool. Do you sell any of your collection?
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I have, that is not my main focus, though. I am loath to part with my top specimens, though. They can be very valuable. Likely, when I die I will bequeath them to any interested family members, or a local institution.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
I have, that is not my main focus, though. I am loath to part with my top specimens, though. They can be very valuable. Likely, when I die I will bequeath them to any interested family members, or a local institution.
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Didn't hurt to ask. :)

My daughter collect fossils so always on the look out to help build her collection.
 
americanwoman said:
Didn't hurt to ask. :)

My daughter collect fossils so always on the look out to help build her collection.
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I have a lot of fossils, I have many in coffee cans in the garage, not museum quality but interesting.

I keep ones like that to give away to spark interest, if you can send a small prepaid postal box, I will gladly send some goodies free of charge. PM me if interested.

I truly want nothing in return, getting them to a young (possible) paleontologist is payment to me.

I just don't want to pay shipping, a small flat rate 8 $ box, can hold a lot.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
Found a mammoth tooth and a whale vert, today
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THat is like really cool. I love fossils.. I do have a whale bone fossil, but nothing from a mammoth.
 
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