Fossiling Equipment & General Fossiling Info

Sifters Used

PVC sifter with 0.25" Mesh (Assembled by your's truly in early 2017)

Page on how to build/ how I built it Possibly coming soon!

Wooden with 0.5" Mesh (Most of my best finds since late 2014)

Metal basket sifter with 0.25" mesh (Few quality finds)

Colander with pool Noodle (only first fossil hunt, not pictured here (for now) for some reason)

Full Florida Fossil Hunting Arsenal

(Small shovel is my go-to lucky shovel)

Fossils & Abundance (not really accounting for sites being "dug over") on the Peace River; abundances can & do vary by general locations

Miocene/ Pliocene

Lemon shark teeth: Common- Abundant

Bull shark teeth: Common- Abundant

Dugong rib fragments: Somewhat common- Abundant

Hemipristis serra teeth: Common

Galeocerdo cuvier/aduncus teeth: Common

Megalodon teeth/ fragalodons: Somewhat Common- Somewhat Uncommon

Physogaleus contortus teeth: Somewhat Cmmon- somewhat Uncommon?

Hastalis/ Mako teeth: Somewhat uncommon

Thresher Shark teeth: Somewhat uncommon?

Sand tiger teeth: Uncommon (more common around venice beach)

Great white teeth: Uncommon?

Fish vertebrae: Somewhat common- somewhat Uncommon?

Mammoth/Mastodon Teeth: Uncommon

Barracuda teeth: Somewhat common- Uncommon?

3 toed horse teeth: Somewhat common?

Cow Shark teeth: Rare- Very Rare

Pleistocene

Turtle shell: Common- Abundant

Horse teeth: Somewhat common- Uncommon

Llama teeth: Somewhat common- uncommon?

Gator Teeth: Somewhat Uncommon

Gar scales: Somewhat common- Relatively uncommon?

Snake vertebrae: Somewhat Uncommon- Uncommon?

Armadillo/ Glyptodon scutes: Somewhat common- Uncommon?

Sabertooth Cat Tooth: Very Ultra Rare