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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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Found on the coast of Hilton Head South Carolina USA. I am quite unsure of what this is, it’s very eroded and might ether be unidentifiable, or just a funny looking rock. However, I find it looks very tooth like, with one wide end, and one pointy end, as well as a cavity that is open at the wide end and gently tracks further into the “tooth” My first thought was a premolar of some sort of primitive whale sans the roots. But that seems unlikely. Please share your thoughts! I’d love any sort input and if you would like a better picture of a certain angle, let me know! Here are the pictures 1. Front side 2.Back side 3.Right side 4.left side 5.Top side 6.Bottom side And here is a video of the specimen rotating! (ignore the sparkling putty, it was the only option I had to get it to sand up nice while still being visible at all angles) IMG_0199.mov
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Found this years ago by the ocean in South Carolina and have no idea what it is. Thank you for any help.
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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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I have been working on sorting teeth I've collected from the Chandler Bridge Formation (Oligocene, ~28 MYA) from one site by species. I've not put adequate time into learning how to differentiate the smaller teeth such as these, and am working on filling those gaps in my knowledge. Here I have isolated 6 "distinct" types of teeth that I am attempting to put a name on. Apologies on the photo quality, I was in a bit of a rush, hopefully there is enough detail to understand the general characteristics I am attempting to distinguish between. 1. Wide root, flat and, typically, curved to one side. Is serrated from where the enamel meets the root all the way down onto the blade. 2. Wide thin root, thin straight blade, serrations. 3. Almost identical in shape to number 2, except straight blade with no serrations. 4. Larger teeth in general compared to the others, curved and straight blade with nos errations, has enamel "wrinkles" similar to serrations near the root only. 5. Very stubby root (horizontally compressed and somewhat more bulbous than the other teeth). Long, straight blade with no serrations. 6. Smaller in general than the other teeth. Serrations along root, but not on the blade. Blade is slightly curved. These are my proposed identification of the teeth: 1. Reef/Requiem shark upper teeth of some kind 2. Unknown 3. Lemon shark lower lateral teeth 4. Lemon Shark upper teeth 5. Lemon shark lower central teeth 6. Requiem shark lower teeth
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20240323_135034.mp4 I found this on Folly Beach. It looks like everything is being held together what appears to be concrete like. It has shell face imbetted as well as other marine life. There is one large shell that was held on at the bottom. It is here where I believe the fossilized pearl rest.
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I found these off of charleston SC. i have a fossil book that is pretty extensive however i am completely unable to identify these two fossils, any help with an ID would be appreciated
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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My first contribution to science
Fin Lover posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
I am excited to finally announce my first contribution to science! This is a section of dentary/beak of a Pelagornis cf. sandersi from the Ashley Formation in Summerville, South Carolina. This was found in December 2023 and has been donated to the new Charleston Center for Paleontology, where it will reside in their collections. A paper featuring it and other Pelagornis sandersi fossils from the area (which there aren't many of) is in progress. Here it is after prep:
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Edisto beach, South Carolina.
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Hello and thank you for your assistance. Can anyone identify this fossil? I found it in SC , Cooper River. Tooth? Horn? Spike? Again, thank you!
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From the album: Chandler Bridge Formation Microfossils
Perhaps a piece of a pharyngeal plate?© CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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From the album: Chandler Bridge Formation Microfossils
A grinding plate or gastric mill?© CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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From the album: Chandler Bridge Formation Microfossils
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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’m making a trip down the coastline of North and South Carolina; from Topsail Beach to Charleston. I know there sites in Charleston for basilosaurus fossils, but I’m curious if anyone knew hidden gems of the Carolina coastline
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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References: Gale, B., Gale, P., & Gale, A. (2020). A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils. University of Georgia Press. Miller, A., Gibson, M., & Boessenecker, R. (2021). A megatoothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens) nursery in the Oligocene Charleston Embayment, South Carolina, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica, 24(2), 1-19.
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