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I am back from my trip/vacation/holiday/whatever-you-call-it. I went to Hilton Head Island South Carolina USA and was unsure how the shark tooth hunting was gonna go. Turned out much more successful then I thought although the largest tooth is only 12mm about half an inch. It’s a lot harder to ID these than I thought. I tried grouping them but am pretty sure I made some mistakes. I could use some help to figure these out. And I know many are too worn to ID. Couldn’t find a complete ruler so I just cut out a 1 cm by 1 inch piece of paper for scale. Let me know if more pictures are needed or if you need any other information. Here are all the finds. group 1 is missing the root but seem wider than the others. group 2, most don’t lay flat since they have a very large root. Group 3 is like group 2 only these all have serrations. Group 4 are thin with small roots although I can’t tell if the root is just very worn. The tooth in number 5 I would put with group two only it looks like it grew around a piece of something while the shark was alive and was wondering if this is true or not group 6 has a thicker blade and smaller root. 7 is angled, short, and serrated. 8 is a fish vertebra and was wondering if you can tell anything else from it. 9 are all slanted this one I’m sure I messed something up I can’t tell which ones are angled because of the species or because of mouth location. And group ten I believe are too worn to identify but this forum has lots of very knowledgeable people so I put them in, in case any can be identified. Thanks for any help. Edit: I know the teeth can turn black fairly quick but how quick is it? The teeth I found vary in amount of blackness which I assume to mean lighter ones are more recent but to turn fully black how long does it take? Thousands of years? hundreds of years? Decades? Less?
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Not too bad a day. Sifting for small teeth. Got my third nurse shark tooth today.
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Water was high today, but just like this tree, I didn’t give up. Not as many teeth as I usually get. I get distracted. My first tooth of this type.
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ID requested: Eocene shark teeth from Tielt Formation, Egem (Belgium)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi everyone, today I arrived a small batch of shark teeth which came from the Egem Clay, Tielt Formation, Egem, Belgium that date back to the Ypresian, Eocene (53 mya). I attempted to ID them but as usual I would like to see what your imput is on my ID's. Tooth 1: Striatolamia macrota or maybe even Cretalamna sp. Tooth 2: Brachycarcharias lerichei? Tooth 3: Striatolamia macrota Tooth 4: Striatolamia macrota Tooth 5: Hypotodus verticalis or Striatolamia macrota Tooth 6: Odontaspis winkleri.jpg.f1c0e1a5b89d0291cd6ee26c6360533e.jpg)
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After my fourth trip to the peace river here is my collection of my favorites. No close ups of any single teeth, but I’ve included a shot of four of my favorites. While I love the mammal teeth, my favorites are still shark teeth. It does amaze me the number of Meg pieces you can find. Its just a matter of time before a real nice one comes up in the sifter. That said, I never thought I’d find just piece of one, so overjoyed with what the river gave back. Not shown are the 700 plus other teeth that didn’t make the display.
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Hi everyone! I went to Post Oak Creek, Texas a few weeks ago and got a decent haul. Including three teeth that I think are from some rare species that I wanted to confirm my id on. I think the first two are Cretoxyrhina mantelii and the third is Protolamna. I'm particularly unsure with the second one since it seems to have a slight nutrient groove. The first one also has damage where there would have been cusps so I'm not sure if it's a different Cretoxyrhina species or a different genus entirely. I'm fairly certain the creek is Atco formation. I know it's either Turonian or Coniacian
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Found a nice tooth and a vertebrae yesterday while hunting on Morris Island in South Carolina. Wondering what shark this is and how old my vertebrae might be. Tried to follow tips so pardon my newbness, if I didn’t do a great job. lol
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Agaleus + Other Jurassic Shark Teeth Wanted
Untitled posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Hello, everyone! I am in search of Jurassic shark teeth. Primary species I am looking for is Agaleus dorsetensis, an Early Jurassic Galeomorph shark that has been found in Europe, most commonly at Lyme Regis, UK. I prefer teeth with no matrix, no repairs or restoration. Other Jurassic taxa I am looking for include: Palaeocarcharias stromeri Crassodontidanus Notidanoides Phorcynis catulina Palaeoscyllium formosum Corysodon cirinensis I can offer fossil shark teeth of different rarities, depending on which teeth of these you can offer. Some of the more desirable taxa can warrant teeth of high rarity in return. I have everything from deep-sea squaliform material, to many of the desirable Cretaceous lamniform species, and other scarce shark taxa. Please send me a PM if you have any of these teeth, and what species you may be looking for in return! Best Regards Ben -
I don’t know why it took me this long to think about using my daughters light board to take my pictures. It even has a millimeter scale.
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Post oak creek teeth! Am thinking cretodus, cretolamna, and cretoxyrhina respectively.
Jared C posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey all, I'm over the moon to say that my long pursuit of shark teeth was temporarily satiated a few days ago, with a trip to post oak creek that my non-fossil hunter girlfriend surprised me with (...i guess i must talk about it a lot, lol) so that we could take our minds off finals. Unfortunately, we were only able to hunt for an hour and a half, max - the area was supposedly set to be walloped by hail soon after we arrived. This was more than enough time to find probably around 30 teeth though, and a few really stood out. Here are some teeth that I can make an educated guess on, but to be sure, I'll ask you guys Tooth 1: My thought is on some Cretodus species, simply due to size - I can't tell, but it seems it's not as wrinkly at the base as I heard it needs to be to be able to easily tell it apart from Cretolamna. (also, the best tooth I've ever found, what a heart breaker missing the tip!) Tooth number 2 - my thought is Cretoxyrhina mantelli - I'm most comfortable trying to ID this one, but I'd rather be sure. Tooth number 3: My thoughts are Cretolamna, (maybe appendiculata?). But, for all I know, this may be some Cretodus species as well. Now for reference to size, I'm a little lost because the only other place I've ever managed to find teeth before is the waco pit, and there are no large teeth there, supposedly because it was a site of lagoon dwarfism. Because of this I don't really have perspective - so, are these teeth of average size for their species?Large? Small? Thanks for any input.
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Hi, I found two larger than usual teeth (for me...) just wanna make sure what they are also some other interesting stuff that I can’t figure out all found in Big Brook NJ thanks!
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Just trying to get a feel on what people would call these two teeth from Calvert cliffs.
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Galeocerdo aduncus/Physogaleus contortus artificial tooth set
bthemoose posted a topic in Member Collections
Below is my third artificial tooth set for an extinct shark, this time for the Maryland Miocene tiger/tiger-like shark(s) Galeocerdo aduncus/Physogaleus contortus. This adds to the artificial tooth sets I previously constructed for Striatolamia striata and Hemipristis serra. For this tooth set, I’ve presented G. aduncus and P. contortus as the same species, with the former contributing the upper and the latter the lower teeth in the dentition. The possibility that these species are the same is further discussed in a recent topic started by @WhodamanHD here; I relied on Applegate’s construction posted by @Al Dente in that thread as my model. In addition to being an interesting proposal, I don’t have the teeth to make a full G. aduncus or full P. contortus dentition (if they are separate species), so the combined approach was borne out of necessity! The largest teeth below measure about 7/8” on the slant. I haven’t yet found an upper symphyseal for G. aduncus so there’s a placeholder for that tooth in my set for now. These teeth were collected by me from Matoaka Beach over the last year or so. The full tooth set: Quadrants: Final with labels:
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Douglas Point (Nanjemoy, MD) is as much fun as everyone says it is.
0sprey posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Took my first trip to Douglas Point with a couple of (equally amateur) friends, and while I didn't find anything rare or unusual it was a beautiful day and we had a great time. There was a family there with 3 little kids who had no idea it was a fossil site, the parents asked what we were all bent over looking for so I (safely, at a distance) gave the kids each a tooth and explained to them what to look for. The kids absolutely lost their minds, they were finding their own teeth in minutes. Half an hour later when the parents told them to pack up to leave the kids got very upset and insisted that they had to stay and find more shark teeth. I think I created several monsters haha. I found nearly 200 shark teeth in all, if you include the junky little fragments, plus some ray plate fragments, some gastropod molds, and a crocodile tooth. Here's a photo of some of the better-looking shark teeth.
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From the album: Permian
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From the album: Aguja Formation
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Hello everyone and just wanted to say that I love the website. I have only primarly hunted shark teeth from the beach, Saint Augustine and Venice beach. I am looking at taking my boys 8 and 15 and girlfriend to the peace river for some fossil and shark tooth hunting. We have kayaks and sifters, shovels and our permit already. We are camping at Brownville park and will be hunting mid May. I am looking for any advice on locations and any other information that might be helpful.
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Following up on the artificial tooth set I recently constructed for the Paleocene sand tiger shark Striatolamia striata, I decided to see if I could put one together for the Miocene snaggletooth, Hemipristis serra, using teeth I've collected along the Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. I haven't found a great resource for an H. serra dentition, but I consulted a few different sources to get a sense for the arrangement, including Fossilguy.com, J-elasmo (which has a dentition for the extant H. elongata), and various TFF threads. The resulting tooth set is below. While I've found quite a few H. serra teeth, their abundance from the cliffs isn't anywhere near that of S. striata from the Potomac River, so this one was a bit more challenging to construct. In addition to several fairly worn teeth in my set, some that I've slotted into various jaw positions are likely a bit more fanciful than the last one. The best extreme posteriors I've collected are proportionally too large, so I also had to use less good substitutes for those positions. The largest teeth below are about 1.25" inches in length. Most of these were collected from Matoaka Beach over the last year, but I found a few of them from Brownie's Beach and Calvert Cliffs State Park. The full tooth set: Quadrants: Finally, here are some better examples of extreme posterior teeth. Both of these are a tad over 0.7" long.
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I finally booked a tour with Mr. Mazza on the Peace River. I talked my daughter into driving down from NC, and my sister here in Orlando to make the trip with me. Well, we weren’t disappointed in the least. Between my daughter and I, we found slightly over 500 teeth, not sure how many my sister found yet. Besides teeth, I found a few horse teeth and one capybara tooth. here are just a few of the many treasures found.
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Day started out foggy, but eventually got better.
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New Member from Atlanta. Heading to Summerville, SC
AtlantaWhit posted a topic in Member Introductions
Hi Fossil Friends, I am a new member to the forum but a long-time fossil lover. Unfortunately, I have only been fossil hunting a few times in my life but am planning on changing that pronto. My first fossil adventure was for my geology class in college. I still have the trilobites, stromatolites, and brachiopods from that trip. It was a very memorable trip sitting on a creek bank sifting through layers. My family and I are heading to Summerville, SC tomorrow for a quick getaway from Atlanta. We are vaccinated and decided to have a little outdoor adventure over spring break. We have a tour booked for Saturday to Folly Beach so we will hopefully find some goodies. We have an extra day and are going to poke around on our own tomorrow (Friday, April 9, 2021) in Summerville. If anyone has any specific sites in the Summerville area for some shark teeth, please feel free to direct message me. We are looking forward to sharing some cool finds in the forum. Cheers, - Whitney -
I was able to get out to Purse State Park this morning for a Maryland Paleocene (Aquia Formation) hunt. I usually prefer the nearby Douglas Point when I hit the Potomac River but I decided to give Purse a try as I haven't been to that stretch in a while. I was the second car in the lot but first on the beach, which is always the best way to start the fossil day. My first good find--a croc tooth, though the enamel is very worn: Followed by an Otodus -- also quite worn but a decent size for the site (approx. 1.25"): It really turned into a gorgeous day! Can you spot the bald eagle? My find of the day: I've been finding ratfish material on most trips lately, but just small fragments. This is my first mostly complete tooth plate. Something interesting in the water... Multiple Otoduses always makes for a very good day. Like the other one (and all of my shark teeth today), this one's river worn. A good sized croc tooth: I did a fair amount of walking and exploring along the shoreline and didn't see too many people along the way, but the entrance to the beach was quite packed by the time I headed for the exit. Thanks for reading!
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