Stump Shooting Bonus!!!

[Shovelbuck]

Was out stumping last Saturday and picked up a cool find.
The top bone was found about 15 years ago and is from a prehistoric male Bison that was aged at around 8000 years.
I found the bottom bone about 50 yards from where I found the first. It's a bit smaller and appears to even have a predator's tooth mark in it.
Both are petrified and quite heavy.

 

[Pahwahsin]

That's pretty cool!

 

[tracker]

I need to bring the kids for a weekend, what do you charge?

 

[Bukslayr]

That would be a neat find!!

 

[Shovelbuck]

I took a bow for a walk this morning on the same sandbar. After all the rain we've had I felt that I may find more fossils. I wasn't let down.
I first found the prehistoric buffalo vertebra, then this small petrified bone of unknown origin.

Heck, I'm doing better fossil hunting than I did for sheds this year.

 

[nannyslayer]

thats just pretty cool Jay.

 

[goatman]

You have good eyes.

 

[Blue Ribbon 1]

Those are very cool!

 

[dblmainbeam]

Jay i need to see your collection. I live for that stuff. Can you show some more pics?

 

[Shovelbuck]

I'll get some pics put together.

 

[Shovelbuck]

Ok dblmainbeam, here you go.
Bear in mind, these photos are only part of what I had easy accessibility to for photos. I really don't honestly know how many Mammoth teeth I have. There are also many smaller, incomplete bones that I didn't bother to photograph.
I also recently gave two large Mammoth leg bones to a friend that is slabbing them into knife handle scales for me. I can't bring myself to do that to the ivory tusk pieces anymore.
There is also a five gallon bucket full of petrified wood I didn't bother to photograph.
Hope you enjoy these. Jay

The lower right is part of a Mastodon tooth, and next to it is a baby mammoth. The others are a mix of camel, horse, and bison.

A few large mammoth teeth.

Some tusk pieces and a complete baby mammoth tusk. Very rare.

More ivory. These are left overs from when I used to cut them up for knife handles.

A couple of big mammoth leg bone pieces.

I don't know what the fossilized disk in the upper right is from.

Prehistoric bison skull pieces. I've probably got about a third of it if I glued all the little pieces together.

Lower left is mastodon....

 

[jimfaststeel]

I enjoyed looking at your pics. Thanks!!!

 

[Hardcorehunter]

Cool finds!!

 

[Skully]

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Sweet stuff Jay! I use to do concrete work and one day we were in a guys basement fixing some cracks. On his fireplace mantle,"in his Man-Cave", was a giant chocolate colored prehistoric bone. He said he dug it out of a river bank while turkey hunting in Missouri one spring. He had no idea what it was and never returned to look for more!

I would love to have a t-rex skull for my man cave if you ever find one Jay.

 

[SaskGuy]

Jay, I'll bet a guy could spend days snooping through your stuff.

 

[dblmainbeam]

Those are awesome. I have a mammoth tooth that I found when i was about 20. I had know idea how to preserve it. It was in a gravel pit we pumped down. When it dried out it broke into several pieces. Now when I show it to people I have to piece it together. I thought about glueing it but decided against it hoping to have somebody restore it for me. Would it be worth doing?

Did you find all those in Nebraska?
Do you know alot about fossil identification? If so I'd like to send you some pics of some I have but don't have a clue what there are.

Sorry for all the questions and thanks for posting the pics. I could look at that stuff all day.

 

[Shovelbuck]

All the stuff in the pics is from Nebraska. A lot of my teeth are glued back together. Just use a clear epoxie.
I can identify a few but if
I get stumped I usually ask somebody that works in that field from UNL.
A good book that I use a lot is...
"The Cellars Of Time" published by Nebraskaland magazine. Fastinating info and photos. You can still get copies.

 

[Shovelbuck]

Re: Stump Shooting Bonus!!! More pieces

I'm slowly getting more pieces to the puzzle allthough the skull and larger bones are not giving themselves up yet.
I picked up a couple more vertabra last weekend including the as found pic which is the tall one circled in the skeleton photo.
My wife and a good friend both said it would be cool to find the shoulder blade. Well, I did find part of one.
I've got a lot more bones to find. They seem to be scattered along about a 1/4 mile long sandbar.

I didn't mention this but about two weeks ago I had a bad experience on the sand bar.

My son and I were there and tried to cross a narrow, shallow channel to get to the other half of the sandbar that i feel holds more fossils. I ended up to my knees in soft, damp, sucking sand. STUCK!!! My son was also stuck but with just one leg. He was able to get close enough to me to help me out. Had I been alone it could of been a bit of an ordeal. I have made it over there since, but am very careful with every step so it's taking a long time to search it.

This as found is of another vertabra, probably from the back end of the animal.

 

[hillrunner]

Re: Stump Shooting Bonus!!! More pieces

thats really neat stuff. I must admit, Id probably walk right by most of that stuff without realizing what it was.

 

[Shovelbuck]

Re: Stump Shooting Bonus!!! More pieces

Was out on the sandbar this morning stump shooting with a friend and got lucky. Found 2 pieces of ribs and a shoulder blade.