An unbelievable find at the ditch

Sorry its been so long since the last post - I had a car accident and I was out of commission for a little while. I'm all better now, though, so today, I took the weEzlinG out to the big ditch to reap the rewards of a heavy rain earlier in the week. We walked the ditch up and down, picking up teeth all over the place. Well, I was, anyway. He was more interested in the flat, round, river rocks, but hey - at least it held his interest long enough to allow me to scour the ditch! Several hours later, the walk was finished, and I had one killer angustidens. We ended up at a spot with a heavy gravel deposit. We were sifterless, so we were throwing gravel up on a pile, splashing it, and harvesting the fossils. It was this way that he found his first meg ever - a 2 3/4 incher. He had absolutely no help from me spotting it, either. Still, though, he's more happy with the rocks because I don't tell him he can't throw them across the room. Almost the next shovel full, though, I spied a double root. Thinking it was a squalodon tooth, I bent over to pick it up and saw that it was definitely NOT a whale, but definitely was a fossil. My first impression was a wolf tooth, but I wasn't sure. We left soon after that. The next day, at the Cypress Gardens Fossil Show, I talked to some others who broadened the spectrum of possibilities. Some people said cat of some kind, some said dog, others said it might be bear. I ended the contraversy with a trip to the Smithsonian booth where my first thought was confirmed - definitely a wolf. SWEET! My first Pleistocene predator tooth! What a great find!

Just so you know, I've been doing a lot of fossil hunting to catch up on lost time, so check back soon because I've found some great stuff in the past few days!