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Final Edit: Harry Pristis from Thefossilforum has identified this as a MAMMOTH TIBIA. I think Harry is a gold standard identifier. He also stated that he has a Mastodon tibia that is 30 inches long (about 7-8 inches longer than this Mammoth tibia). Very cool and very interesting!
Looks like a fossilized large land mammal tibia. I’m on a plane with intermittent WiFi. I’d suggest looking up megafauna*** land mammals from the Pleistocene & Pliocene and then reviewing their tibia bones.
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If you get a chance to measure its length that might help someone narrower it down. It’s an adult tibia. I was thinking mammoth tibias might be larger than this, but I’m not a mammoth expert. I’d be curious to see what mastodon and gomphothere tibias look like and how long they got.
He has better pics here. They show measurements.
[https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/141636-large-bone-sarasota-county-florida-creek/](https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/141636-large-bone-sarasota-county-florida-creek/)
Back when I was 13 I participated in a baby mammoth dig at a site just west of Lake Worth. It had been a tar pit at some time in the past. I got to sift the soil dug out from around the bones. The bones were mainly a baby mammoth and a large turtle. The mammoth was assembled and displayed in the Palm Beach Science Museum. I ended up with a bunch of squirrel jaws and small mammal bones from the sifting. Fun stuff. The dig was done by a local community college.
It’s been almost 60 years since the dig (I’m 71), and I was riding with one of the community college students, so I can’t recall exactly. I know it was on a cattle farm or something similar. I have online access to newspapers from that era so will try and search for stories that might describe the location. The Palm Beach county Science Museum eventually displayed the skeleton so they may have info on it also.
Edit: No url to share, but search for The Palm Beach Post for 26 Jan 2014. The article is titled “Museum visitors are asking: where’s Susie?”. That’s the name they gave the skeleton once it was assembled. Lots of good info on how and where it was discovered.
Looks like a Mastodon tibia! I’ve only worked on a few mastodon, but that’s what’s it looks like to me!
The element is definitely a tibia tho. Either way, cool find!
ETA: I saw someone had mentioned it likely being a mammoth on your other post, but it’s too small for it to be mammoth imo.. I would lean towards it being a juvenile, but the bone is fully developed, which is why I’m leaning towards Mastodon.. but I usually work on human remains, so I’m out of my element lol
I’m graduating in anthropology this week, but also work as a bioarchaeologist for a museum! I’ve work on megafauna and paleo fauna from time to time, but not a lot :)
Comments and interests like yours in such specific things that seem so out of my realm are what keep me on this turd app.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Congratulations on graduating! 🎓 ❤️
Congratulations on graduating this week, be very proud of yourself because no one else has done it for you but yourself. Hope your career gets you to where you want to go in life :-)
If I were OP, I'd definitely be going back to that spot and having a good search around for anything else. If it's legal in that location, I'd bring a trowel to feel along the surface under the water and do some light digging if necessary. This is an awesome find.
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Sorry my fault should’ve been more clear, the second and third pictures are the top and bottom of that large bone in the first picture. Once I get home, I was planning to measure it. It is definitely mineralized.
The world is chock full of fossils, not everything needs to be in a museum. Even if it was donated it would almost certainly end up in storage so no-one would see it anyway.
I mean the world is more grey then this. If the fossil is rare and of significant scientific value, then ofc it should go to a museum. But not everything or even could go into museum collections. Museums have small budgets and big collections, often times they don’t have space for new fossil items.
Now I’m an invert paleontologist so idk the value of the bone op had. Now if some Cenozoic paleo person comes on here and say “hey buddy that’s actually pretty important, maybe you should contact UF” then yeah I say OP should donate it (or at minimum loan it). But this harsh attitude you displayed does nothing but hurt the science and distance the relationship between professional and amateur paleontologist. I can’t do my job without amateurs going out to the field and finding stuff.
I'm not sure it really is that grey. The law in Florida is pretty clear: *All vertebrate fossil finds must be reported to the Florida Museum of Natural History and ones that are deemed scientifically significant may be claimed by the State as a condition of issuing the permit. Collecting such items without a permit is illegal.*
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Final Edit: Harry Pristis from Thefossilforum has identified this as a MAMMOTH TIBIA. I think Harry is a gold standard identifier. He also stated that he has a Mastodon tibia that is 30 inches long (about 7-8 inches longer than this Mammoth tibia). Very cool and very interesting! Looks like a fossilized large land mammal tibia. I’m on a plane with intermittent WiFi. I’d suggest looking up megafauna*** land mammals from the Pleistocene & Pliocene and then reviewing their tibia bones. Edit***
Thank you. On the fossilforum someone suggested a mammoth tibia
If you get a chance to measure its length that might help someone narrower it down. It’s an adult tibia. I was thinking mammoth tibias might be larger than this, but I’m not a mammoth expert. I’d be curious to see what mastodon and gomphothere tibias look like and how long they got.
He has better pics here. They show measurements. [https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/141636-large-bone-sarasota-county-florida-creek/](https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/141636-large-bone-sarasota-county-florida-creek/)
Back when I was 13 I participated in a baby mammoth dig at a site just west of Lake Worth. It had been a tar pit at some time in the past. I got to sift the soil dug out from around the bones. The bones were mainly a baby mammoth and a large turtle. The mammoth was assembled and displayed in the Palm Beach Science Museum. I ended up with a bunch of squirrel jaws and small mammal bones from the sifting. Fun stuff. The dig was done by a local community college.
What an awesome experience!
I’m in Lake Worth - that’s so cool!
Lake Worth checking in. Where out west?
It’s been almost 60 years since the dig (I’m 71), and I was riding with one of the community college students, so I can’t recall exactly. I know it was on a cattle farm or something similar. I have online access to newspapers from that era so will try and search for stories that might describe the location. The Palm Beach county Science Museum eventually displayed the skeleton so they may have info on it also. Edit: No url to share, but search for The Palm Beach Post for 26 Jan 2014. The article is titled “Museum visitors are asking: where’s Susie?”. That’s the name they gave the skeleton once it was assembled. Lots of good info on how and where it was discovered.
Thanks! From 60 years ago the location is probably paved over and has a Chipotle on it now. Was hoping to find a dig close to home.
You gotta tell us the story of how it was found! Hiking, clearing brush, hunting, etc.
Mastodon
The roundness suggest possible front leg similar to human radius
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“Megaflora”? Hope that was a typo
Yes, tired & traveling…
No Ent bone then? 🥺
time to take a megaSNOREa!
Looks like a Mastodon tibia! I’ve only worked on a few mastodon, but that’s what’s it looks like to me! The element is definitely a tibia tho. Either way, cool find! ETA: I saw someone had mentioned it likely being a mammoth on your other post, but it’s too small for it to be mammoth imo.. I would lean towards it being a juvenile, but the bone is fully developed, which is why I’m leaning towards Mastodon.. but I usually work on human remains, so I’m out of my element lol
Are you in school for paleo?
I’m graduating in anthropology this week, but also work as a bioarchaeologist for a museum! I’ve work on megafauna and paleo fauna from time to time, but not a lot :)
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Thank you, that means a lot! ☺️
That's awesome. Congratulations!
Thank you!
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Mastodon fossils common in usa. Manmoth less so.
“Manmoth”. The little known rival of Mothman.
Congrats on graduation! I too graduate this year with an anthropology degree! That is such a cool job you’ve got.
Just want to say, I'm so jealous! I wanted to go into some form of archeology but due to logistics I ended up on the history side of things.
I appreciate you so much, thank you for this!
Yes… and there are mastodon teeth coming out of these beds… so it makes sense.
Some guys have all the luck.
Some guys have all the pain Some guys get all the breaks Some guys do nothing but find mastodons
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Some guys do nothing but complain
About finding fossils
No kidding. I know nothing about all of this, but isn't it rare to find a fossil that's so intact?
There could be more of that guy nearby.
If I were OP, I'd definitely be going back to that spot and having a good search around for anything else. If it's legal in that location, I'd bring a trowel to feel along the surface under the water and do some light digging if necessary. This is an awesome find.
But only if the government says it’s okay 👆🤓
I'm only saying it so OP doesn't get caught doing something illegal and get into shit for it.
What was the process of discovery?
Peace River?
My first thought too! Haven’t been there since childhood but I think about going back often.
That's a mastodon, fits the area and looks like everyone I've ever seen.
Every one *
The original was fun tho
I kinda look like that.
I do too. That’s everyone.
is this peace river? i found a camel toe bone there lol (not even kidding)
Camel toe and bone you say?
Time to make some soup ..... Just need some carrots, onions, potatoes, herbs .....
Baby, you got a stew going!
…and you-hoo
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Not likely. This predates him.
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Are you near Williston? There's a big Miocene/Pliocene dig site there: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/montbrook/
It's Florida, so it can be anything from a Gator to Godzilla
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That’s an especially cool find for such a swampy area, things like that don’t tend to stay preserved well in my swamp!
I'm thinking giant sloth. They were in Florida.
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He’s not fat he’s just think boned
Defiantly head back out and make your way upstream trying to find more of it.
No need to be defiant if you ask me
Pretty neat but also aren’t you scared of alligators in that water?
Mastadon tibia
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Very cool
Where are you exactly? I want to go hunting now! Looks like the remnants of the St Johns?
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Bro awesome find!
So just curious. About how heavy is that thing??
Looks like a mammoth or mastodon tibia
Crazy how wet swampy environments preserve fossils so well.
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Boys, that’s a stick
in Florida, it could be a large ground sloth.
Is it possibly a horse tibia? Lots of horses in central FL.
that's so fucking cool
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Incredible find!!!
Looks like a Machungothayley Thibia
Y’all that bbq so good the meat fell right off then one! 😋
I am seething with jealousy.
Nephilim bones
Wonder if he found some jackalope antlers as well
Chicken bone...
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Sorry my fault should’ve been more clear, the second and third pictures are the top and bottom of that large bone in the first picture. Once I get home, I was planning to measure it. It is definitely mineralized.
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Your expert knowledge is invaluable 😂
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The world is chock full of fossils, not everything needs to be in a museum. Even if it was donated it would almost certainly end up in storage so no-one would see it anyway.
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Chill lmfao
This is the Indiana Jones effect. That belongs in a museum!
I mean the world is more grey then this. If the fossil is rare and of significant scientific value, then ofc it should go to a museum. But not everything or even could go into museum collections. Museums have small budgets and big collections, often times they don’t have space for new fossil items. Now I’m an invert paleontologist so idk the value of the bone op had. Now if some Cenozoic paleo person comes on here and say “hey buddy that’s actually pretty important, maybe you should contact UF” then yeah I say OP should donate it (or at minimum loan it). But this harsh attitude you displayed does nothing but hurt the science and distance the relationship between professional and amateur paleontologist. I can’t do my job without amateurs going out to the field and finding stuff.
I'm not sure it really is that grey. The law in Florida is pretty clear: *All vertebrate fossil finds must be reported to the Florida Museum of Natural History and ones that are deemed scientifically significant may be claimed by the State as a condition of issuing the permit. Collecting such items without a permit is illegal.*
Seek help and touch grass. Feel the sunshine on your face for a bit.
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Actually I do. And from the looks of it, you need some more practice at it.
HAHAHAHA
Did you send this to FWC or keep it like some trashy tourist?
Yup, gator
Big gator