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From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
gastropod from the St. Mary’s formation. Calvert co. Maryland -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
gastropod from the St. Mary’s formation. Calvert co. Maryland -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Bivalve from the St. Mary’s formation. Calvert co. Maryland -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Bivalve from the St. Mary’s formation. Calvert co. Maryland -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Bivalve from the St. Mary’s formation. Calvert co. Maryland -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
A close up of ‘sand dollar’ detail. Calvert formation. Calvert co. Maryland.-
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From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Unknown species. Calvert formation.Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
A close up of coral from the calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation. Scale in cm. Calvert co. Maryland. -
From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA
Calvert formation. Scale in cm. Calvert co. Maryland. -
Going through sifted sand from Douglas Point, Maryland. I average about 3 teeth/fossils per hand full of sand. Here are a few from searching.
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I’m currently going through sand from Douglas Point, MD. Found this little guy. Scale is mm.
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Fossil snail/Gastropods from the Matoaka Beach Cabins, Maryland
Velociraptor99 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, I have a few gastropods/snails I found on my trip to Maryland, at the Matoaka Beach Cabins. They are Miocene in age, but I can’t really find anything online for species and genus names. I want to put together a display for an event tomorrow. Could anyone help me ID them please? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hello all! I've been fossil hunting with my son for about 6 years now. We've hunted in MD, WV, DE, and PA and have made finds from the Ordovician up through the Miocene. Recently we've been hitting central PA pretty hard, finding some really good Devonian, Carboniferous, and Silurian spots. I've gotten a lot of good info on locations leads and fossil IDs from this forum over the years. I figured it was time to officially join! 🙂 I'm looking forward to learning and growing through being part of this community. Gary
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Identification reference material for shark teeth from Purse Area, MD?
ebfossilhound posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi all, I have probably around 500 shark teeth from Purse in Maryland. I’d really like to try to ID and categorize them, but I can’t seem to find a comprehensive source and a lot of the internet sources don’t have very good pictures. Does anyone know of a good resource to use for this? A book would be great. -
The child in me doesn’t like working on my birthday, so I like to take the day off to try to get out on the beach for a hunt. We had some crazy weather the days before with wind gusts up to 60mph! It had my hopes high to find myself a large tooth for my birthday. So yesterday me and my girlfriend got up early to kayak out on the bay to watch the sunrise before going to the cliff to start our hunt. It was a beautiful morning and the water was nice and calm, it’s hard to believe there was 6 foot waves not but a day and a half before. Once we land, after only about 15 minutes on the beach and I find an amazing 1.79” megalodon! And before I could catch up with my girlfriend to show her, I spot a really nice 1.72” hastalis tumbling in the water! We continue on with the finds slowing down after passing some fellow fossil hunters on the beach, but still finding some nice smaller teeth in the wash. I found another decent hastalis right as we turned around and a really nice shark vertebra before we got back to the kayaks. It was a great morning and I can’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. I may not have got that big tooth I’ve been hunting for, but I definitely can’t complain the the great haul I ended up with! Thanks for reading, see y’all next time!
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For my last hunt of 2023 I got back out to the Calvert cliffs, launching my kayak a little after sunrise I made right to the beach. The water was still a little high when I arrived (I feel like it’s been higher on average this year) but I found a nice shark vertebrae and a 1.62” hastalis before low tide. Finding a few smaller teeth for most of the walk, I then at the end of the beach where I normally turn around found a nice epiphysis disk, sitting out in the water. Now for my walk back the water was nice and low, and freshly washed out, sitting on the water line was a gorgeous 1.78” Megalodon! The root is starting to wear, but the blade is perfect, great serrations, tip and all! Continuing back I find a nice tympanic bulla (whale ear bone) my first on this beach. Last but not least as I return to my kayak, sitting about two feet away is an amazing upper cow shark tooth! A lot of variety for the day in addition to the normal shark teeth finds, another great trip and a great way to end the year! Thanks for reading, see y’all next year!
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Took a trip out to the Aquia formation along the Potomac river on Friday, I tend to go to the Calvert Cliffs a little more frequent so it had been a little while since I’ve been to this site. We had some rough weather and high wind earlier in the week so it had my hopes high. I arrived on the beach a few minutes before sunrise. I started out by finding a couple heartbreaking Otodus teeth that were just buried enough in the sand to give me hope of them being full. Alas, three times in a row I unearth a busted tooth. Finally my luck began to turn when I found a gorgeous Paleocarcharodon orientalis! A rare tooth for this site and it was in great condition. I continued on and to my disbelief there was another amazing condition Pygmy! I couldn’t believe my luck, then I just couldn’t help but laugh when saw a third great condition tooth. I could go a handful of trips and not find a single one, and here I am with three! The biggest only being .99” but the serrations on them make my heart skip a beat! But that wasn’t the end of my day, I finally find nice complete Otodus measuring 1.31”. On the walk back I managed to snag two more smaller Otodus to round out the trip. It was a crazy day; the weather was amazing and the river was calm, I had a bald eagle flying over head and I found three amazing Paleocarcharodon teeth! Thanks for reading, until next time!
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Another fossil whelk from Montgomery county Maryland. Not sure how old.
