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Going to Hilton Head Island for vactation in July. Haven't been there since I discovered this shark tooth/fossil addiction several years ago. I'll likely charter a boat to take me out to shark tooth island in the savannah river but would love any advice on any good spots on the island itself if anyone has them. They had a large beach replenishment in the past year so I hope the hunting on the beach itself is above average and productive.
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So I didn't know where to post this, but figured fossil hunting trips would be a good spot since the kids were doing an indoor fossil hunt! Today I did my annual class for the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS) Kids Club. It is always a hit, but due to scheduling I was unable to make the February class and did this one in May. May tends to be a smaller group because of the nice weather and vacations, but we still had a great time! The adults even wanted to get in on this activity and I was more than happy to help! The worst thing that happened was I forgot to take lots of pictures! I took (2) 5 gallon buckets of matrix, one bucket from Peace River, FL and the second bucket from Aurora, NC. I talked to the kids about how fossils in different locations can be similar (ie. shark teeth!) and we explained the importance of labeling your finds! Each person was given (1) 5-ounce cup of matrix from Peace River, and (1) 5-ounce cup of matrix from Aurora. We set up microscopes and laptops an allowed the kids to photograph their 5 favourite finds. We set out books, posters, and print outs to help with the identification part. They then loaded these photos on to a USB and have some very nice detailed photos to take home with all of their finds. That's right, I let them keep EVERYTHING! One kid found a cookie cutter tooth, full root and all! I don't even have one in my collection yet! Aside from keeping everything they found I made sure to send each kid home with a small 125mL bag of each matrix, and 5 various fossils from my Peace River hunting trips ((3) 25mm+ shark teeth, a dugong rib, and a turtle piece.) I shared with them my preferred methods of hunting and encouraged them to try their own! All in all it was a great day with lots of very nice finds! Thanks again to @Sacha for sending me Peace River matrix for my classes!
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Fun hunting off the Rappahannock River in Virginia for a final trip before heading back to Singapore (will give away teeth; few there have seen any). No major finds (I do like the bonita nose, not common in my spots) but lots of small teeth and unfortunately broken ones that could have been nice. As others have noted the beach areas here are picked over until the next good storm, so I did a lot of digging and sifting, and even there I think I was reworking areas that had been combed pretty hard. Some areas were very productive (2-4 teeth per colander full), others not (one decent tooth every three or four colander fulls). I picked up a lot of interesting non-shark teeth stuff to sort through later. Good to be hunting, but the biting flies were annoying.
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Went out to Purse the other day with my girlfriend, its been way too long since I last got out. Tides and water level have not been good lately. I just bought my girlfriend a new pair of hip boots and she's been itching to use them. 80 bucks at Cabela's which i didnt think was too bad at all. It was a beautiful day and the tide was surprisingly low with a good bit of wave action. Found some cool stuff including what looks a like a goblin tooth to me with a elongated root. Boneheadz
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I asked my wife what she wanted to do for Mother's Day and much to my surprise, she wanted to go to the river! Since her surgery was last Thursday and she hasn't had much activity since then, I was pretty surprised. The idea was that she would hang out in her new beach chair and relax but the allure of shark teeth was too much for her and she cruised the shoreline a bit too. We only spent a couple of hours but I was glad to see her up and about and enjoying the beautiful weather. The water was high and rough but because of this, it continually revealed teeth. I hardly spent any time at all sitting, most of my teeth were found walking the waterline. Amazingly enough, this was my third straight trip that I found a whole cow shark tooth! Total haul: Love these teeth! I'm shocked every time I find a whole one! Dolphin tooth.
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Hey guys, I have many Cretaceous Shark Teeth up for trading. I will send them in a small envelope with around 10-20 inside for a random fossil that I will not be able to find in NJ. I found these at Ramanessin Brook, NJ. Please let me know if interested. Thanks.
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A few years ago, my wife found a super heavy iron and glass coffee table used. We have had it in our home for a long time as is, but recently I decided to re-do it. (I wish I had before photos, but sorry.) I went to the lumberyard and bought some 1/4" plywood, and some 2 X 3 boards and some hinges. I pulled the heavy glass out of the recessed top of the table, and replaced with plywood. I then made a frame out of the 2X3's that fits on the table. I cut a recess in it to take the glass. When it is set back on the table it provides a gap about 1 3/4" between the glass and the plywood for fossils. I hinged one side to allow access and to keep the new top in place. I added some dividers and then a bunch of fossils from around my area. One end starts with stuff from the Lincoln limestone. Just above that is the Pfeifer Shale layer, followed by the Fairport, then Blue Hill Shale, Codell Sandstone, and finally the other end has Niobrara chalk fossils. I'll add some close ups of the different sections. I'm very happy to have these right here where I can look at them every day and enjoy them instead of having them out in the shop in bags!
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Hello all! Well, I've done an initial search of the Sharktooth Hill matrix that @ynot sent me this week, and I'd like some help identifying some of the larger shark teeth - please and thank you! I think I'm right about the first three but I'm not so sure about the fourth since the root is worn down or covered by matrix, so it doesn't look exactly like the others - thoughts? I'm pretty sure about the one on the right but less sure about the one on the left - I did lump them together, though, since they both have a pretty obviously serrated shoulders. (By the way - I considered that the one on the left might be Sphyrna sp. (hammerhead), but I can't see a deep nutrient groove in the root.) Thoughts and opinions are much appreciated! I think this bunch of teeth just might be my favourite because of all the beautiful colours!!! Am I right about their identity, or should they be labelled as something else? None appear to have serrations, by the way. I doubt that I'm right about these ones since Isurus oxyrinchus (and I. retroflexus, the longfin mako) are not common for Sharktooth Hill, but I don't really know what else to suggest - please help! None of them have serrations, by the way. And finally (for now), a couple of tiny little teeth: Thanks so much for your help!!! Monica
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Had to work in Austin the last couple of days so on the way home, I decided to check out the Waco research site. The site is exposed Del Rio formation. I have never hunted here before. First I stopped and got my permit at the Corp of Engineers office. They were very friendly and pointed me in the right direction. I asked if they had many permits out and they mentioned they only receive about one a week but a week ago had someone sign up for a group. I thanked them for their time and headed to the site only to find that the permit was for a group from the community college and they were meeting there just as I arrived. I spent a few few minutes talking to the professor who explained they were an environmental science class from WCC and it was their first trip out there. I wished them luck and headed down the hill for my first trip ever. I only had about an hour or so so hit it hard. My goal was to find a shark tooth, horn coral and an echinoid but would be happy to find anything. My first find was indeed a piece of horn coral which turned out to be the only one I would find. There are tons of broken shells and around but teeth and echinoids were top of my list. I had no idea the variety of items there. I found gastropods, oysters and small ammonites. All are pyritized and beautiful. I finally spotted the familiar shine of a tooth and to my surprise right next to it was the tip of a larger tooth. I spent one and a half hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. Can wait to get back when i have more time, (which has become less and less lately.) attached are some of my finds.
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Found these two teeth today at a private beach at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. Any help with IDing them is appreciated.
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So I was cruising the bottom, checking boulders and my right hand hit something hard. It felt like a big bone chunk. Then my left hand swung around and felt the other side. Symmetrical. That's when I started getting interested. Then I felt the enamel. It just kept going and going down into the mud. At this point, I'm reciting the fossil hunter's littany, "Please be whole, please be whole, please be whole!" It was! 6 3/16" my first six-incher.
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These are the best of the bunch from a short trip right before high tide today.
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My wife and I both took a day off work to dig another hole in Bakersfield. Our best day yet. Felt like we did not spend more than 5 minutes without finding a tooth, big or small. Found over 200 teeth and hunted for a solid 6-7 hours. These are photos of some of the best ones we found. Front and Back: Large front seal tooth (I think), and other smaller seal teeth. Most likely from the same animal since I found them in very close proximity.
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I'm heading down to Charleston area for a couple days next week. Is there any areas that are easy to access that would be good to explore to look for some fossils. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks, Dwayne
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Man do I love this river! We were the first ones to the beach today and it was a good thing too, three hours later it was filled with folks showing up for the various Easter events at Stratford Hall. On of the first things I spied was the biggest shark vert that I had ever found, and I was feeling pretty stoked about that until my wife let a yell and held up one bigger. My wife did the racetrack pattern along the water line while I settled in for sifting, she ended up doing better than I did, though I did end up getting some cool finds as well. Total haul. Shark verts. Couple of fish verts and an epiphysis. Croc tooth, dolphin teeth, and a crab claw.
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I took a long 8 - 10 mile hike at NSR. The weather was beautiful and wildlife abundant. I saw hogs, deer, beaver, hawks, ducks and geese among others. I picked up a nice variety of fossils. I really like the Xiphactinus jaw with replacement tooth showing. I sat down to take a break and found 4 shark teeth in one area. The little fossilized turtle scute is also cool.
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Can anyone help me out and let me know what I've got here? They came from Florida, New Port Richie area
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Spent the morning in a meeting trying to plan out the schedule from hell, afterwards I escaped to the river for the afternoon. Beautiful day to be at the river, the pollen is starting to fall like mad so a nice green carpet covered the water. Nothing huge today, but it was a very enjoyable day none-the-less. Total haul, some nice Hemis today: Small, extremely worn meg. Love finding Cow Shark teeth, hopefully I'll find a complete one this year. Also found another crab claw (top) and a fish vert (right).
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Decided to assemble some of the odds and ends I have that have yet to be displayed on my desk. Thought I would share. Shark teeth were not collected by me but were from foul weather days fossil hunting on ebay.
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Hello I'm currently a college student studying biology and living in New Jersey. I've always loved going to museums especially the AMNH as a kid to see the dinosaurs and have grown up with a passion for biology. Recently I've started collecting primarily shark teeth and any other fossils that I find in my home state. Since I love fossils and always looking to learn more I decided to join the forum.
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Hello everyone, Trevor here. Today I went with my father to Ramanessin Brook in New Jersey. Yesterday there had been light but extended rainstorms and was hoping that the storms could expose so new formation or clean up some gravel bars. Much to my dismay the stream was almost completely flooded, with many portions of stream just slightly below my torso. All but one of the gravel bars were exposed in the first stretch of stream I explored. I did some sifting which was not very productive. I decided to try further upstream and found that there were a few more gravel bars. Along the way I met a funny group of students geologists from Stockton University near Atlantic City (if I remember correctly) practicing their hand at fossiling. If someone goes on Monday or even tomorrow they may find double what I came across. The streams need a little bit of time to subside and then many finds will be exposed. I found some odd bones and was wondering if someone could identify them. The first I believe is a vert and the second I have no clue. My questions: Are they fossilized? Are they pleistocene if fossilized? First Unidentified Bone:
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I made an eBay purchase and discovered loose loose items in with it. Trying to identify them. Don't know anything about their origin but am trying to get more info from the seller. Any help would be appreciated.
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Went out to the North Sulphur River on Friday and on Sunday. Met up with @David E. on Friday at Sunrise. After a pretty good rise in the river we were a little surprised to see it didn't really seem to make the difference we were hoping for. But I will say David found some stuff that blew my mind. I'll let him reveal his amazing discoverys. I did find a great bony fish vert, several tumbled Mos vert, and a really nice squali tooth. The second day I returned with my girlfriend where I found more Mos verts and my girlfriend found a killer shark vert. Below is the combined 2 days...
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It may be a weird request...........but a few weeks ago I found a rather nice shark tooth ,water was high, in a stream during a snow storm with 6 inches snow on the ground and very cold (didn't think i would find anything) and on this day my father had passed away,although fairly new to fossil hunting I always shared my journies with him and I'm trying to find somewhere I can send it to have gold plated in his memory as I cant find any info local.........does anyone know? thanks
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Hey All! Had a lazy day today so finally got some time to post my Peace River canoeing/fossil trip I went on end of Feb. I went 4 days and 3 nights on the Peace River canoeing, camping, and fossil hunting. We dropped in Wauchula and ended in Arcadia. We had a blast and found some good stuff along the way. This is my 4th year going down there and my first trip where I found my biggest and best condition meg! My buddy had never been fossil hunting (except once to Mazon Creek, pit 11 with me) and he found his first small meg on the river. We saw a lot of wildlife, paddled a lot of water, and shoveled a lot of river bottom. Here's my material from the trip. Enjoy! Armadillo band/scutes, glyptodont scute and tail scute (one of my favorites!), whale bulla, tortoise spur, random bone, and tusk material Jaw (recent deer??), alligator teeth, snake vert, sloth teeth pieces, gator osteoderm (a favorite), and small random bones Peccary tusk??, capybara tooth piece, reconstructed deer antler, horse teeth, piece of petrified wood mammoth tooth pieces (I think same tooth), mastodon enamel pieces, shell (id?) turtle neural pieces, soft shell turtle pieces, gar scale, ray teeth/plate pieces, ray barbs turtle turtle turtle! These are my unknowns glass bottle (any ideas w age on this one???), bone piece? skull bone??, very worn vert of what?
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