Looking for safe harbor

My friend, Jack, will fossil hunt

come hell or high water

and we've all been putting that theory to the test.

Jack's been reduced to digging in areas that have been dug out due to their extreme ease of access but, as he said, he's "looking for any port in this storm."

And then he finds this:

an 8" claw core from a giant ground sloth.

Hmph.

That man could find a 4" meg in the clearance bin at WalMart.

Well, I need a port in this storm, too!

The only accessible sights that I know of are a 3 hour drive from my house 

but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

I always feel a little trepidation when I set off

in my kayak into unknown waters. I motored past a fisherman on the shore last weekend and he called out, "Aren't you afraid of that water?"

"Yes, I am," I called out with a smile

and continued on my way.

I have yet to find a large fossil, like that sloth claw, but luckily those who went before me left some tidbits behind.  A big horse tooth, glyptodont scutes, tortoise leg spurs, turtle scutes and a couple of broken scutes from a giant armadillo.

I feel a little bit better now.

Decent hemis, along with a few other shark teeth

and 5 of my favorites: porcupine fish mouth plates.  Would've been 6 but I dropped one.

And...wait for it...

A great camelid tooth and tiny horse incisor!

The 2 gator teeth on the right are nice, too.

I like my jaw fragments.

Most of what I've found is from small animals like armadillos, opossums, raccoons, etc.

UFO

(Unidentified Fossilized Object)

(I'm sorry my fingernails are grungy.  I just got done fossiling!)

I haven't been able to ID this fossil, yet, and 

I'm still trying to ID this groovy find:

What are these things?

Take a closer look...

Hmm...

I'm still clueless.

It's been suggested that it is a clump of hackberry seeds, an important forage food for early humans, but it's also been posited that it's a cluster of ostracods, also known as seed shrimp.

The jury's still out but I'm intrigued.

Here's a recent necklace I made with a Peace River meg.

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My fossils need to sing for their supper.