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Found in Summerville, SC in a creek with Oligocene to Pleistocene. 95% of the angy I find here have obvious cusps, so these other 5% often confuse me. Chubs are rare in the area, so I think it has to either be a transitional angy or a meg. Just curious on what everyone's thoughts were, just so I know which of my Riker mounts to put it in. It's small at 1.25 inches. Thank you!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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I found this in the dunes near the beach in an uninhabited point off the coast of South Carolina in Charleston harbor. The US army corp of engineers periodically dredge the harbor to make it deeper and dumped the tailing at the tips of islands which is where this was found. The area is where people go to hunt for meg teeth, and you can also find many pieces of fossilized ice age animal bones. Occasionally, bits of stone tools are found there too. Anyway, I’m wondering what animal this might be. More importantly, it looks like humans may have processed it, but I’m not positive. 1. The hole through the middle of the bone is cleanly drilled, straight, and symmetrical all the way through. 2. The bottom is perfectly flat as if it’s been cut and ground down against something. The rest of the bone is not weathered in the same way. The outer edges of bone on the bottom are polished all the way around. 3. The mud/dirt on the flat bottom filling the pores in the bone is also perfectly flat and fossilized in place. For mud to fill the pores, the bone would have needed to be cut flat prior to fossilization. 4. There is evidence of wear around the hole that’s hard to see in the pictures (along the top of the bone, along the inner edges of the hole on both sides). The wear spots match where a string would go if this were tied to something. Does anyone have an idea what animal this is? Could a natural process could have created both the hole and flat bottom? Could this be evidence of paleo indians processing the bone?
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Here is another lost id. South Carolina? Nice dual cusps each side
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I don't know bones very well yet, but my guess on this one is part of a cetacean occipital condyle. Found in Summerville, SC, in a creek where I find cetacean verts and small cetacean teeth (as well as shark teeth, etc.). Oligocene through Pleistocene layers are present, but there seems to be more Oligocene than anything else. Longest part is 4.25 inches. Any thoughts? Thank you!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
My first one! Found surface hunting, so I'm lucky I saw it.- 3 comments
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
Only found broken ones this trip-
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I posted this in my gallery, since it is my first echinoid, and now the comments have me curious. Does anyone know the genus and whether these are uncommon in the area? I've found one paper about echinoids in the Goose Creek Limestone (Miocene-Pliocene fossils), which is one of the possible formations where this was found (ex-situ). Chandler Bridge (Oligocene) is also present, and possibly a Pleistocene lag deposit that contains reworked Miocene fossils. Being the first one I've found (compared to thousands of shark teeth), I would think they are uncommon; just trying to find out to what extent. Thanks so much! Approximately 26 mm across at widest point.
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The Goose Creek Limestone is early-mid Pliocene and contains un-reworked Miocene-Pliocene fossils. ID references: 1. Gale, B. (2020). A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils. The University of Georgia Press. 2. Kocsis, L. (2007). Central paratethyan shark fauna (Ipolytarnóc, Hungary). GEOLOGICA CARPATHICA-BRATISLAVA-, 58(1), 27 3. Maisch IV, H., Becker, M., & Chamberlain Jr, J. (2015). Chondrichthyans from a lag deposit between the Shark River Formation (Middle Eocene) and Kirkwood Formation (Early Miocene), Monmouth County, New Jersey. Paludicola, 10, 149-183. Stratigraphy information references: 1. Boessenecker, R. (2008, May 13). The Ashley Phosphate Beds: the Reconstruction Era, Vertebrate Paleontology, Fossil Preservation, and Stratigraphic Confusion in Charleston, South Carolina. The Coastal Paleontologist. https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-ashley-phosphate-beds.html. 2. Campbell, M. R., & Campbell, L. D. (1995). Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 27(1-4).
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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I definitely don't want to incorrectly ID something in the CRM. This one has been questioned, so I'd love your thoughts! Thank you!
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I found two fossilized jaw segments yesterday that I need help IDing, please. I believe the first is either barracuda or wahoo, but I've done a little research and am still not sure how to tell them apart. My guess is wahoo, based on the tooth thickness increasing as it gets closer to the root, but some descriptions I've seen of wahoo teeth describe them as "needle-like", which these are not. Jaw section is 50mm long. Tooth goes from about 1 mm thick at the point to about 5mm at the base. Found in an area that is heavily Oligocene but with a small amount of Miocene (coming from an overlying Pleistocene lag deposit). Jaw #2 I believe is cetacean... something like an echoventator. I previously found a similar one in the same creek, but the spacing between those teeth were greater (both have the double-root teeth). This creek is also Oligocene with some Miocene from overlying lag deposits. 62mm long and 32mm tall. Wet to show the double-root tooth sockets better: New jaw on left, other from same location on right: I hate to @ people if I don't have to but, from reading old posts, I think @Al Dente and @MarcoSr can probably ID wahoo vs. barracuda. Thanks so much!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Low tide reveals approx. 80,000-year-old fossil along South Carolina coast
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Low tide reveals approx. 80,000-year-old fossil along South Carolina coast Josh davis, WPDE, Agust 15, 2023 Low tide reveals approx. 80,000-year-old fossil along Myrtle Beach coast Fox 28m, Savannah, Georgis Yours Paul H.-
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After hurricane Ian hit last year, I made a trip report from a location that doesn't offer many perfect teeth: I have been back there probably 12+ times since then, but have never come close to that many finds...until now. This is one pass of the creek, but split into two trips due to getting rained out halfway through the first day. Also, I only surface hunt, leaving lots for all of the sifters to find. My first nurse shark tooth! At 5 mm, I'm lucky to have found it surface hunting: Broken arrowhead, but I rarely find these: Broken C. catticus. Such a shame since they are uncommon here: I think these are all odontocete teeth (maybe not the first one): Worn horse tooth and a frag: Verts and hypural bones, etc. One is 3 or 4 verts fused together! Ray mouthplate bits: Other miscellaneous: Better picture of the sawfish rostral tooth(?): Otodus and suspected Otodus frags: And did you see it in the mix? I finally got a complete angy here, although it is missing the serration on the tip. Still, this is as good as they come at this location: Other "larger" teeth (sand tigers, hastalis, great whites, Isurus): Close-up of one of the great whites, since I don't find many anywhere in Summerville, and the ones I do find are usually missing the root: Lots of smalls: I don't keep many bones, but here are a few odd pieces, a worn cetacean vert, turtle, and a couple shells: No 4+ inch angy this trip, but some things I've never found and some that are in good condition for this spot. My husband did tell me before I left to not even bother coming home if I didn't find a cowshark tooth. But, who are we kidding...we all know who is in charge. Thanks for reading!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
My largest yet!- 3 comments
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
