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Asking for some help if I could get an ID on the species of this recent find of mine? I've pulled from GMR (GreensMill Run Greenville NC) Rick noted it's def. Reptile but unsure 100% if it's Croc or mossasaur? Any clarification on that and if there is enough of it to go further into a species/placement/relative size of what it belonged to would be AMAZING! I found it with the usual GMR assembly of great white, tiger shark teeth, whale bone/ear bone, a mossasaur tooth and petrified wood.

Another weekend find, looks like a broken Vertebre - it's got a different shape to it, seems more oblong than round based on the shape of the half I have. Rick noted looks sort of like a Plesiosaur vert? If anyone can ID it from what fragment we have, that would be AWESOME and much appreciated! Let me know if you need more photos. Found: Greensmill Run, Greenville, NC. In a hole with an array/time span of things from cretaceous to native american artifacts (enchodus teeth, crow shark, shale bone, great white, giant white, modern tiger shark teeth and pottery.

Another find this weekend, actually Rick found it but let me bring it home, want to confirm that it's a petrosal and also what species based on my research I believe it to be. Found: Greensmill Run, Greenville NC among a huge array of items (whale bone including several tempanic bulla, shark teeth (great white, tiger,crow, Giant White Shark etc) and two Enchodus teeth etc. Believed to be a Petrosal from Balaenoptera Sursiplana? I thought (from one specific article/image reference below) that is was possibly Plesiobalaenoptera but it noted they are only found in Italy and the long flat part seemed much thicker than the reference image, but the rest seemed better matched than from the other species noted above?

I found this guy over the weekend, I just want to make sure it's not something cool... but I know there is a high chance of it just being a rock with little rocks stuck in it. I am curious if these little black tubes could be some sort of organism? I found these digging at GMR in Greenville NC and cannot say that this was pulled from any particular group/formation because I found it among a large amount of whale bone, shark teeth, enchodus tooth, shells and my buddy Rick also found some native american corded pottery in the spot too. So we are talking a range of time here that doesn't help narrow anything down. It was hard to photograph, I can get some better images with a digital microscope tonight if that would help/let me know where to focus at/on. They are on the top and bottom and sides (where it wasn't broken off) of this piece.

Sunday, 12/18/2016, will be a day documented with great detail in my personal memory bank. As you read this, keep in mind, I am one of those people who remain in constant awe of the world around me; curiously exploring every little detail, often finding excitement in the things most would consider average or common. Every Trip I’ve made to Greens Mill Run these past three years has been one of such joy, excitement and inspiration – regardless of what treasures (and junk) I had found or imagined to find. 12/18/16 9:15 AM – I arrive to my usual parking spot, which I frequent most weekends and week day evenings through the spring summer months that the sun lasts long enough to get a few screens in after getting off work at 5pm. I am seriously addicted and will never be ashamed to admit it! ( of course, I miss the occasional weekend to go on fossil trips with groups in other places OR because of lil pesky hurricanes, like Matthew, flooding me out). Rain, cold, heat nor physical discomfort can keep me from going at least one day out of a weekend to get my dig on, and most of all – to find my peace of mind within the tiny spot of nature found near the heart of a small city. I meet up with my favorite digging friend, Rick – who was in shock of the damage the city did along GMR to clear out the fallen trees within the creek. They had been clearing a wide road to fit a back hoe an extensive distance deep into the woods, just beside the stream, to remove the multitude of fallen trees left behind by Matthew. While they may have destroyed the beauty and protection of the banks – I do owe them some thanks for breaking up a couple banks in the process, releasing treasures! We poked around and walked up stream slowly, heading towards I place we both wanted to hit up, a spot I didn’t have time to get into last weekend. I knew there were still things to be found - I had spent about 20 hours total there two weekends ago and still kept finding stuff. Within the week days since the weekend prior, they removed the fallen tree I wanted to dig by, pulling it up out of the stream. As I walked up, looking over the damaged bank and released potential, I look to my right (at 10:00 am) and cannot post here the exact words that came out of my mouth – but I will elude to it .. “Holy…” and Rick, right behind me, immediately sees what I’m looking at, exclaiming “I .... hate you” jokingly. I wouldn’t have believed it and neither would he had one of us came upon this discovery alone. Laying there in the clear water, glistening in the sun as it rested on hardened clay, was my very first complete, serrated and large Megladon tooth. She is a true beauty. We snapped photos in the water, where she lay, and then in hand – texting them to a couple people, bragging etc – it being quite "the find". It only took about 3 years of consistent trips to finally find my very own GMR meg in remarkable condition of such size!! I kept digging. I found an AMAZING great white two hours later and a few smaller GW, Mako, Crow, tiger etc that are common for GMR (but still exciting to me each and every time I see one in my screen!). Leaving around 2 pm, the love story of Mr. Ash and his first remarkable Meg followed. We went home, I had a shower and my Meg had a bubble bath (I’m mildly OCD and have to disinfect everything I bring home). Then, we went out for dinner, my Meg and I (oh and the GF) to celebrate! I wanted steak – we went to Ribeyes (AMAZING STEAK FYI). I got us a salad, but Meg said she doesn’t eat rabbit food and would wait for the main course. Meg was a bit testy with the cook when they informed her that they do not serve Whale, but we settled on a nice medium ribeye. Julie, my lovely lady with such kind heart-ed tolerance for my fossil obsession, drove us into the sunset, my meg and I – hand in..tooth…holding it..erm – to get a milk shake from Arbys. We ordered some chocolate shake goodness and we headed home! True love. (my GF getting slightly jealous at this point as I never share my shakes with her) And finally, after such a long exciting day – we got tucked in for a good night’s rest before meeting all of my coworkers the following morning. Any fossil lover can relate to the pure excitement and euphoria of their first meg find. I hope you can appreciate the visual representation of what loving a Meg, found after searching for so long, would be like J

We had an awesome day at GMR yesterday, check out some of our finds!

So I took a trip to GMR in Greenville, NC. Green springs park is currently closed and by the looks of it, i guess for a while. The entire creek took a beating with down trees that lay across the creek in many places. South of green springs park is still very deep, maybe 6 or 7 feet. I did manage to find access about 1/4 of a mile north of the park. This area was anywhere from ankle high to thigh deep, and I'm 6'3". I stumbled onto some pretty awesome finds as well as whale bone central, bulla's, baby intact meg teeth. For regular visitors of the creek, its going to look alot different. And from what i came across today, i plan on revisiting the spot next week. Water wasnt very cold either. Just wanted to spread the word.

Any ideas my smart people?

Is this from a Porpoise? Is it even a tooth?

I would greatly appreciate any help/direction on figuring out what (if anything) these two objects may be and if they are similar in origin. I was thinking the root of a tooth, but really haven't had much luck in my research but will admit I've not gone far outside of googling as much as I could think of for the region where I found these to see if I can find anything similar that was IDd. I copied the main concerns from FAQs on posting here, so hopefully I was able to provide enough detail for some direction. I can try to get better pictures with closer views if you think it will help, I was anxious and shot these with my iPhone as soon as I got home. 1- LOCATION Greenville, NC Greensmill Run. (GMR) 2- GEOLOGY/Formation Generally this location is part of the york town formation, Miocene-Pliocene-cretaceous 4- ASSEMBLAGE Shark teeth, belemnites, bopods, mouthplates from singrays/skates, whale bone. 5- DISCOVERY I went to a new part of the stream today, it was much higher upstream than I usually venture, with rapid running water. I was walking on what felt like a giant rock for about 20 yards then sand with loose gravel came up so I plopped my stuff and this is one of the finds with lots of shark teeth. 6- CHARACTERISTICS I thought it was an only chipped rock at first but a second look and I thought it was really close to this other item I had found that was much smaller (on the right in the photo) I was thinking maybe some sort of tooth root? Maybe it/they are just rocks? There was really nothing else similar in shape or color in the area today and generally when I dig in other spots along the GMR. The brown color, texture similar to and density being much lighter than a rock for both objects leads me to wonder what this may be?

Hey everyone, I was hoping that I could get some input as to what species this could be from. My personal opinion is saw fish rostral tooth but it always helps to get a second opinion. I found it in the Greens Mill Run in Greenville, NC. Thanks for taking a look!

It is my 5th day fossil hunting and I belive that looking for fossils is much like looking for relics just alot less expensive. In this way I mean, you go out and buy a thousand dollar machine just to look for say civil war relics, but for fossil hunting all you have is your time,gas, and cost of the sifter if you use one, now by my book that only around $960 cheaper. With that being said I would like to introduce myself, my name is matt I live in Winterville NC and I have been a civil war relic hunter for almost 9 years now, I have traveled the east coast looking for relics and have been in over 23 different states and recovered history, I also have a great deal of my relics in museums, vistors centers, and schools across the US. Metal detecting is fun as can be anything but I always make sure that I have the permission of the landowner or the state official before I procede to dig anywhere, this will ensure and I am sure its the same in fossil hunting that the hobby stays in good standing for a long time. Just recently a good friend of mine that I hunt relics with in the state of Maryland got me introduced in the world of fossil hunting, he hunts the "calvert cliffs" in maryland quite a bit as well as has a good size collection in the calvert county museum. He took me to the Aurura fossil fesitval in 2010 for the 1st time, and I have to say that I had a blast, I had no idea that there were even such teeth as big as the ones that I saw and had no idea that this many people were involved in fossil hunting. Well I had to go, I had caught the itch and the little spoilage piles at the event just were not easing the pain of seeing all those HUGE teeth. I knew deep down I wasnt gonna find a 6 incher my first day, but it was always nice to think of such. A day after the return to Greenville and 300 tiny sharkteeth later I figured that me and my neighboor would go try GMR "Green Mill Run" in Greenville NC. Now I grew up only 2 miles from GMR and knew about it the whole time it just never registered that it had fossils in it. The 1st day there again we really didnt know what we were doing and this was only my 2nd time ever looking fossils. Sure we found some by digging and sifting but again all baby teeth. Well after about 7 hours of my back throbbing and again alot of small teeth we decided to call it quits. Upon getting home I was starting to reconsider my fossil hunting adventures and think that this might not be for me. Got online and asked to meet up with some better knowleged people and maybe learn a few skills from them. Sunday roles around and I figured I would go out one last time and try it on my own this way, there would be noisy neighboor talking and I could concentrate until my help arrived, walked down to the creek in the same spot and started digging and sifting small tooth after small tooth and when I say small I mean like 1/8 of an inch. 4 hours later I finally see someone walking down the creek with a shovel and a sifter, so out I come and I start following him. I didnt want to take his secret spot or annoy the man just wanted to see if it was the person that I had talked to on the internet the night before. Finally I caught up to him and he was just as nice as he could be explaining that he drove all the way from Tenn. just to come hunt GMR, he told me about the differnent fossils and what to look for, feel for and how to dig. After seeing him pull a monosaur tooth at about 1 1/2" I wanted to dig, so I picked a spot beside an old fallen tree and started digging... At first the same results small teeth and bone, THEN my first actual big tooth, now what I was considering big was anything bigger than an 8th of an inch,lol. So I stayed right in that spot pulling good sized teeth out left and right apparently someone had missed that one little spot, it wasnt until the guy that I had spoken to on the internet arrived that I finally realized how many teeth I actually had. This guy was from Raliegh NC and he asked if we were finding anything, I reached in my pocket and to my suprise pulled out about 14 teeth all measuring anywhere from 1" to 2.14" only 4 of these 14 were almost perfect with the root and tooth still intact. Well needless to say I was freaking hooked like fish now. The day finally ended and my total was around 16 or so good sized teeth, but I wasnt done I was gonna come back the next day and hunt that hole out. Monday the 7th myself and 2 frineds go back to that spot where I pulled all the bigger teeth from and start digging, before to long we all are pulling meg chuncks then a few nice GW's here and there. Well one of our buddies had to leave b/c he had to work 3rd shift and had to get some sleep. So we continued to dig I dug out my original hole as big as I could until I was getting into the sand that I had sifted out the day before. I ended up with about 6 more GW teeth, huge bone fragments, meg chunks, fossilized fern print and a snail. Bobby did pretty good as well, he got around 4-5 GW's in great condition and lots of other fossils as well. About the time that we gonna leave a man approached us introduced hiself as a photographer for the Daily Reflector Paper here in Greenville NC and wanted to know if he could take some pics of us. He snapped a few pic and asked a few questions and we answered them to the best of our knowledge, and then all of a sudden we made the front page of the local section that following Thursday. It only took me 7 years to make the paper in Relic Hunting but yet only took 4 days in the fossil world. Anyway this is my story and how I am now a certified relic and fossil hunter. Please sign up as a member on our website forum as well at www.wedigdixie.net Thanks for reading!!