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#1. Not sure age #2. Not sure age #3. Pliocene/miocene #4. Pliocene/miocene #5. Not sure age #6. Not sure age #7. Not sure age #8. I believe Cretaceous?
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From the album: Lee Creek
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Anyone planning to go to the Aurora Fossil Fest this month?
RandyB posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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I could not find the date I found the attached amber from Lee Creek (about 26 trips). Had misplaced it (in one of my Miscellaneous bins, instead of one of my Lee Creek bins), but finally located it and is 4 inches long and 3 inches wide and a little over an inch high. I wonder how many, if any, inclusions could be inside?
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Rhincodon cf. typus Pungo River Fm., Aurora, NC, USA a minute tooth from the biggest fish in the sea - the whale shark. Being filter-feeders, their teeth serve no known function and are considered vestigial. -
Hi Everyone! I'm willing to trade these 2 big boys from my personal collection. I'm looking for Megalodon teeth from more exotic Locations. Chile, Peru, Carribean for example. But also LC aurora and Mehherrin. Always open to other offers too. Tooth 1: Grey 6'05 from SC Small resto done to the lower sides of the restorations. Done professionally. But furthermore natural and practically perfect. Tooth 2: 6'40 coast Meg tooth from NC No restorations done. Almost half a kilo. Absolute monster.
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Greetings again Thisis a second vertebra also found at the Lee Creek Mine (aka Aurora) in Yorktown spoils. It is 50mm in length, rather porous and very light. I was thinking bird, but thought I'd get some other opinions. Any ID suggestions? The photos in order are: "bottom", "top", "side", end 1 and end 2
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Greetings, Since There's not much collecting to be done here, I've started diving into the collection and trying to ID and label. I found this vertebra at the Lee Creek Mine (aka Aurora) in Yorktown spoils. It is 33mm in length, rather porous and very light. I was thinking bird, but thought I'd get some other opinions. Any ID suggestions? The photos in order are: "bottom", "top", "side", end 1 and end 2
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Rhincodon cf. typus Pungo River Fm., Aurora, NC, USA A minute tooth from the biggest fish in the sea, the whale shark. Being filter-feeders, their teeth serve no known function and are considered vestigial. -
As most of y'all know, I enjoy photographing my fossils almost as much as I like finding them! So here are my Best Finds of 2021! No measurements because of "artistic preference" but they are arranged from smallest to largest in each category. I'd love to see your Favorite Finds of 2021 too! Texas Cretaceous: Cretaceous Cont, and Pennsylvanian And Texas Permian, Pleistocene, Eocene and Not Texas
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So, I have a nice collection of fossils ive found from 2 seperate trips to Aurora... I was told the straight and curved bones could be ribs (most likely dolphin), but I am unsure. I also have a 2-3 inch bone that lolks like it could be from a land animal. I also have 3 different vertebrates from something... One is medium-small, one is small, and then the other one is really small lol. Then, in the last picture and in the middle of the row... I have no idea what it could be, it looks like an imprimt of a plant maybe? I found another one and its red, but I forget where I put it... At the beginning of that same row it seems to be sharks teeth but their all on a row... And the last fossil on that row looks to be a dolphin tooth. (Sorry I know its a lot of fossils.... We can knock them out one at a time, right? )
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I looked through the non-shark tooth finds and there was a lot I didn’t know. Hopefully some of this can be identified. 1. Dolphin teeth, can they be further identified? I’m not sure if all these are cetacean but at least some are. @Boesse I’d appreciate your input. 2. a large tooth, is it a big fish or something else? 3. An image of more fish teeth, all appear to be from the same type. 4. This variety of fish teeth is much more narrow. 5. the last fish tooth variety, flat and broad. 6. I have a feeling, not all these are the same thing but anyone know what it is? 7. Very strange and I have no idea but it’s symmetric. 8. Fish tooth maybe? It splits in to two parts at the one end. 9. it sort of resembles a crab carapace but I doubt it since I haven’t heard of those from here. 10. No idea, looks like two plates of something. 11. Is this identifiable? It looks like bone but has a strange outer layer. 12. I have no idea what this is but it has a very cylindrical shape. 13. It almost looks like a shark tooth but on the back there is no sign of enamel. 14. Any idea what this is? I’ve seen an image of these before but they weren’t identified. 15. I assume this is a fish part but is it possible to tell which part? 16. Last, finally, it looks like a tiny vertebra but the sides show no vertebra structure. There is also a small hole that goes all the way through. Attached is a view from the top and an oblique view that shows the side. Like always, thank you for your help. The knowledge here is unparalleled.
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Hi all! I have a few things from the Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix that I could use some help with ID. First is this odd "tooth" which I am assuming is some kind of fish tooth, but any thought on ID? Size 1/4 inch Also this little "thing". Coprolite perhaps? Size 1/8 inch and lastly this little piece: Size 1/4 inch
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I was recently gifted some micro matrix from Aurora, North Carolina for Christmas and have been looking for tiny goodies. It is in single digit Fahrenheit temperature and it’s too dusty to search inside so can’t look today but I can hopefully receive some shark teeth IDs. There are some other unknowns but I haven’t photographed them yet and will wait to post until I am finished searching. I never knew ruining your neck could be so addictive. if you need more photos, I can get some. 1. Very strange and I have no idea 2. One of the bigger pieces and incomplete. Some sort of mako? 3. This one has quite a sharp curve and thin root. 4. From thin root to wide. Although it’s kind of worn can the large root be identifiable? 5. Strange tooth with wide root. Do these strange roots have to do with tooth position? 6. This one is similar to 5 only with an even wider root. 7. This one almost doesn’t even look like a shark tooth. Rhincodon? 8. The largest (proportionally) strangest root on a shark tooth I have. Looks like some big hair-do. No idea how this tooth would have been any help to the shark. Thank you for any and all help.
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I recently received some micro matrix from @thelivingdead531. Again thank you so much, it is an awesome gift! But I have been trying to ID the shark teeth and can't figure out what any of them for sure are. I would really appreciate any help. Also sorry about the quality of the pics. I may be able to take better pictures, but only if I need to.
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Hello all! I have a HUGE bucket of Aurora Micro that I am slowly going through and I am hoping I am getting my ID's accurate, so I am posting what I think are each kind. Please confirm or address any wrong IDs. Thanks!! These are all micros, so around 1/8 inch - 1/4 inch or aprox 3-9mm EDITED TO ADD CORRECTED ID'S 1.Sphyrna sp. Hammerhead Shark (Not Bronze Whaler) Carcharhinus brachyurus: Bronze whaler 2, Carcharias sp Sand Tiger 3. posterior 4. and C, taurus 5. Scyliorhinus sp. Cat Shark 6. Carcharhinus cf macloti Hardnose Shark By far, the most common teeth in the bunch 7. 8. Is this also C. macloti or something different? 9. Carcharhinus isodon Finetooth Shark (Not Lemon Shark) 10. Negaprion brevirostris Lemon Shark 11. Rhizoprionodon fischeuri Sharp Nose Shark 12. 13. Galeocerdo aduncus Tiger Shark 14, Lateral Carcharhinus (Not Tiger Shark) 15. Now this one I am 100% sure of....:) Isistius sp Cookie Cutter! 16. Rhincodon sp ? Whale Shark 17. 17. Carcharhinus symphyseal (Not Angel Shark) 18. 18. Notorynchus cepedianus ? Sevengill Shark 19. 20. lateral Carcharhinus (Not Sphyrna zygaena ? Smooth Hammerhead) These I am not at all sure what they are. Any help will be appreciated: 21. 22. Hemipristis sp. 23. I have found a number of these "leaf blade" like teeth....never one with a root. Mackeral or Tuna Teeth 24. 25 . Thanks for looking!!
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Scale is in mm. Found in Lee Creek material.
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One more. What throws me off about this one is the oval root base, when all several dozen other Odontocete teeth have a circular root base, and the wear pattern on the tip. Thoughts?
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hello everyone, I am looking for some assistance in identifying two odontocete teeth from the Pliocene Yorktown Fm, Lee Creek Mine. The first photo shows the two teeth in question on the left vs a Kogiopsis sp. tooth on the right Are the teeth in question just Kogiopsis with the crunchy outer coating intact? Marine mammal ID isn't my forte. There are 3 photos each. Interesting that the second of these teeth almost has an opaline filling of the basal cavity. Any help is greatly appreciated! TOOTH #1 TOOTH #2
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From the album: Sharks
"Dusky shark" Yorktown Fm., Lee Creek Mine, Beaufort Co., Aurora, NC, USA-
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