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Hey guys! It’s been a long time since I’ve been active on the Forum, but I have an exciting update - I just published my first paleontology paper on Christmas Eve! It’s a short paper documenting two shark species that are previously unreported from the LaSalle Limestone of northern Illinois (you guys may know it as the Oglesby roadcut!), Heslerodus divergens and Ossianodus sp. I’ve added the pdf of the paper here and here’s a link to it as well. Thanks to everyone here that helped give info about the site, especially @deutscheben! Gieser_et_al_2023_Kentiana_5.pdf ***Calling all LaSalle Limestone/Oglesby roadcut fossil hunters!*** If you have collected any shark or fish material from the Oglesby roadcut and would be willing to contribute to science and the growing knowledge of the (severely understudied) Paleozoic vertebrate diversity of Illinois, please contact me! Hobbyist fossil collectors have made some of the best finds in paleontology, and I would love to see what you all have collected from the site. This area’s fish diversity is much higher than is currently known to science and I would like to work on documenting it. Thanks! Email - rgieser2_AT_illinois.edu or you can just contact me on this site as well
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Megalodon Tooth Necklace?
Paleo___1111___Rugut replied to Paleo___1111___Rugut's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I got a tooth from an antique shop , it is 2.3 inches long but a bit broken on tip. I want to know if the tooth is real or not
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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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Found some specimens while teeth hunting in a creek that feeds the Cooper River in South Carolina. I think the big tooth may be great white or mako. Not sure about the smaller ones. Also found several pieces that appear to be bone. Anybody got any thoughts on what I've got? *now numbered for for easier viewing.
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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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Peace River - Wauchula, FL (Misc. + bonus tiny Jacksonville Beach, FL shark teeth)
Hurricanerin posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi friends! I recently took a trek to the Peace River and went in in Wauchla, FL. I would love some help identifying what I found. I still need to photograph all of the shark teeth I found in the Peace River, but there is a pic of a few teeny tiny teeth I found in Jacksonville Beach, FL. I numbered things since there are so many. Thank you so much for your help! .
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Hi friends, I would love some help identifying these itty bitty teeth from Jacksonville Beach, FL. If there's anything I can do to take better pictures, suggestions are more than welcome.
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Hi everyone, Are these two teeth C. Hubbelli or C. carcharias? thanks, in advance. 1. 2.
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An afternoon excursion to the Frankstown Fossil site North of Tupelo, MS in Fall of 2023 resulted in one single shark tooth and a portion of an oyster shell. I am embarrassed to reveal that after about 30 shovels of sand sifted, the only tooth I found was in the prior sifting detritus of another fossil hound. Expedition injury report: I scraped my arm as I fell on the slippery clay attempting to descend into the creekbed. Win some and lose some. Time with an old friend was the best reward for this fossil expedition. darrell Barnes
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Hi all, Recently came back from a fossil hunting trip from a Miocene age deposit. Was looking through some of my finds and noticed that what I believe to be sand tiger (Carcharias taurus) teeth have striations on them. I am fairly new to shark teeth collecting and was wondering if only sand tiger's have them as I have not seen them on other genus. Wondering if anyone here that is more knowledgeable could shed light. Thanks in advance.
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Took a couple trips to Eocene/Miocene locations in Monmouth County, NJ. Thought I'd share some of my finds. First trip was on 11/17. Was a warm 60 degrees outside! Group shot of my finds. My first find was an erratic fossil from the Devonian with signs of bivalve/brachiopod, crinoid and Pleurodictyum. I also found this separate section of what I assume is a Crinoid stem Several bone pieces. Eagle Ray plate - my first ray plate found in NJ. Some of the shark teeth: Otodus obliquus - First time finding this species Otodus chubutensis - First time finding this species Physogaleus contortus Carcharias sp. Had to do some reconstructive surgery as it fell apart coming home.
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Hey all, I'm making a trip to Rocky Mount NC to visit some family and like going to Battle Falls, I have seen some shells along the bank of the river but wanted to ask if anyone knows if it's OK to collect teeth along the river. I know that they are there just not sure if it's ok to collect them.
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I just found this on the beach and honestly thought it was a shark tooth but didn’t realize only fossilized shark teeth are black. Is this a shark tooth? And if so, what kind? (The last picture is the inside and there is a fairly deep groove). Found in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
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A little while ago I complained about people measuring fossils to the nearest 1000th of an inch. A practice that is absolutely ridiculous. A thousandth of an inch is about the width of a human hair. (Probably white person human hair as other races have finer or thicker strands). If you are measuring forams under the microscope, this is fine. If you are measuring shark teeth and rex teeth that you can see without a magnifier, this is lunacy. Anyway, I just saw a post where an Indonseian shark tooth was measured to the nearest hundreth of an inch. Rather than hijack that thread, allow me to demonstrate my feelings on this. Here is the photo they shared; This measures 6.34 inches. That what it says on the calipers. But look at where the top of the caliper is. It is close to .03 inches off on the tip of the tooth. So this could be 6.31, or 6.32, or 6.30. Not sure. The point is.... that last digit is useless if not just plain wrong. Thankfully this tooth was not measured to the nearest number of human hairs. Math people call this concept 'significant figures'. This tooth is realistically and practically 6.3 inches long. The same happens when my colleague at work translates metric to inches. "It is 5 cm (=1.9685 inches) long". No it isn't!!! It is 1.9 inches. Did you measure the cm to the nearest ten thousandths? No, then why did you measure the inches to that fine detail? Yes, I give him a hard time about it. And, yes, maybe this is why it irks me on TFF as well. I urge people to not bother with the smaller units when measuring things this big. I am sure the sellers measuring these will never see my rant, but thanks for listening. Rant over. Carry on.
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I went out to a site that I haven't visited in a while, and it was a bust. Until. I was just getting ready to leave, and went back to a place that I had searched right at the beginning of the day and decided to search just a little more, and then I saw it, at first I thought it was just a fragment, but it turned out to be a complete posterior meg, and my largest one to date! It is always important to search twice, this find saved the day for me, and was a perfect end to the day.
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Had another early morning today, first time out since the time change so getting in the water for sunrise was a little difficult. None the less I launched the kayak around 6am and watched a beautiful sunrise on the water, then got to the beach to begin searching. Not to long after getting to the beach I found a great hastalis measuring 2.02” (my second biggest) and a few steps away found a nice little cow shark tooth! It slowed down from there finding a large fish vert (my largest) with the rest of my finds being a little further apart. Talked to a fellow fossil hunter on the beach who found a beautiful megalodon around 2.5” with great color, I was a bit jealous but it’s always nice to see other peoples finds. On the walk back to the kayak I found a nice little micro meg and some dolphin teeth to wrap the trip up. Another great day on the bay, I’ll be back soon!
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The places I hunt were over-run for the summer (particularly the place with 'different' cowshark lower laterals), so I took some time off. Less buggy now, beautiful time of the year (most times are!) Hit some old spots, mostly broken. Biggest tooth (hemi) is just over an inch long. Seemed more colorful, but still having issues with scanner.
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I’m a little late to getting around to posting this but it’s been a hectic week so far at work. I kayaked back out along the Calvert Cliffs last weekend and the weather was absolutely beautiful, getting close to if not over 80 degrees for the last weekend of October. I got on the water early to watch the sun rise and then started hunting. The nice weather definitely brought some more hunters out, with other kayakers, boaters, and jet skiers coming to the beach soon after landing. As expected it was a little slow but I still managed a nice little megalodon measuring 1.46” and a nice hastalis measuring 1.43”. As I was slowly checking out the shell line on the way back I found two micro megs, and a few dolphin teeth to finish the day off. All in all a great trip, love finding teeth and kayaking along the cliffs on a calm morning is just peaceful. See y’all next time!
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Seeking corrections and identification on shark teeth from Aurora, NC, USA (Miocene-Pliocene). Scale in mm. Thanks for any help you can provide! Sphyrna sp. (Hammerhead)? Carcharhinus sp(p). ? Carcharias sp.? Not sure. (Some kind of Galeocerdo?) Not sure. Not sure. (Carcharhinus sp(p).?
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Hello, Looking for help with these Upper Cretaceous shark teeth from Post Oak Creek, Sherman, Grayson Co., TX, USA (Warning: Some of these are heavily eroded). Thank you! Squalicorax? Species? Cretodus or Cretalamna? Mix of both? Scapanorhynchus sp? @ThePhysicist
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I am finally going through my Florida shark teeth. Most of these are from the Peace River. Hoping to get confirmations and corrections on my tentative IDs. I have numbered the groupings of taxa. Scale is in mm. No. 1: Galeocerdo cuvier? No. 2: Negaprion brevirostris? No. 3: Negaprion brevirostris? No. 4: Charcarhinus spp.? No. 5: Odontaspis taurus? No. 6: Hemipristis serra? No. 7: Galeocerdo aduncus? G. cuvier?
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Can anyone help I.d any of these shark teeth? All found at Bawdsey, Suffolk, or Felixstowe, Suffolk.
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Hey hi Everybody! I like the unusual teeth. And posterior teeth are some of the most unusual in any given species. So I thought I would start a thread for posterior shark teeth of any species. To kick it off..... Here are some from Shark tooth hill (round mountain silt). I think these are Carcharodon hastalis and (?) planus. The smallest one is just under 1/8th inch wide. So, if You have any posterior shark teeth - please post pictures here. Thanks, Tony
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Figured that I would share some photos of part of my collection so far. Fairly new to this game and sure that many of you have collections that are amazing! Please share some photos of some of yours, or your prized pieces. Would love to see them! The vertabrae with the doc numbers is probably my favorite piece other than what I have recently collected. It is from Bob Ernst's collection.
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I am trying to ID some of my teeth I have collected. I am a diver and I collected these teeth 20 miles ff the coast of North Carolina around 105 feet or 32 meters under water. Any help I can get will be great. James
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