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  1. Our friend @sharkdoctor sent us some micro matrix from the Old Church Formation in Virginia. This is our second batch and the first was fairly sparse but we did find some cool stuff. I haven’t searched much of this matrix but it’s already produced some nice teeth and has a better density too. There isnt, to my knowledge, any descriptions of Old Church material so my ID’s are just best guess. First pic- a beautiful little Galeorhinus tooth. Second pic- a really awesome Sphyrna tooth, maybe S. media. Third pic- a colorful Galeocerdo, I’d guess G. aduncas. I will update this I go.
  2. Helen.Cornwell

    Is this even a fossil?

    I found this on the beach. It is heavy and looks like a fossil. Under close examination it looks like layers of gauze. Can you help?
  3. Largemouth Bass

    Mystery Potomac bone

    Around 1 inch (2.5 cm) in length. It has an apparent ribbed structure on one side. From the Potomac River in VA.
  4. Found this little fossil on the James River shoreline near Surry, Virginia (US). Wondered whether it might be an incomplete dolphin ear bone, but not entirely confident in that ID! It's just about an inch long.
  5. Ketik

    Unknown vertebra?

    Hello, I’m new to this group and was hoping for help identifying this find. I found it on a well known fossil beach on the east coast of VA, USA. It looks like a vertebra to me, but this was my first fossil hunting trip and I was expecting to find shark teeth. Any ideas on what this is from? Or if it is really ancient? Thank you for your help!
  6. Coryrsmith23

    Popes Creek, Westmoreland, VA, Potomac

    Please help me identify 2 unusual fossils I discovered November 2022 at Popes Creek on the Potomac River, Westmoreland VA. I have attached images.
  7. Some of the stuff from recent trips. I have had a great year for cowshark teeth @Fin Lover ! One particular spot has produced the best, some even intact. My "usual" finds are sand tiger teeth; most of these, except the biggest, have sharp cusps. And another spot produced mako/ great white teeth. (Some glitches with my scanner; not the image I had edited(?)) May append another later. Weather has been great, cool in the morning, warm with low humidity in the afternoons. Finally getting some rain (too late for my garden) and washing out some teeth and other stuff. Fishing has been good, but the catch poor here (lots of small speckled trout; would think it would bode well for next year, but there seems no connection.)
  8. cck

    Hear Hear!! Cetacean ear

    Hi all! Looking for advice and insight on this cetacean ear bone ( periotic? ) … All info is welcome and thanks!
  9. Highlights from a couple of recent trips. I found two Hemipristis/ snaggletooth, the big one is perfect (rare for me). Also a nice cowshark tooth, tips intact and most of a root (also rare for me). More gray sharkteeth than usual, fewer angel shark and drum "teeth" (less gravel where I was digging?) I think the black piece with embedded gravel is a drum tooth plate; not sure what the yellow piece is? (when in doubt "Turtle"). A bonito nose and the usual sand tiger spikes. Fun to be hunting in the cooler weather, less mosquitoes and deer flies, still frogs and salamanders although the water was largely gone from the creek. We had an inch plus of rain yesterday and more expected Sunday night, so hopefully it will move stuff into the opening.
  10. Hello, Some friends and I went to Chippokes State Park in Virginia last week. The park is beautiful, and going down to the beach was very nice. We ended up settling at a sand bar formed at the mouth of the College Run creek. Although, we did not find anything too remarkable at first sight - other than lots of fossil oyster and clam shells - after sitting down for a bit we found our first shark tooth. With renewed hopes we kept scouring the area and found a couple more smaller ones - no meg big or small sadly... I did decide to bring with me a gallon Ziploc bag half full of material to look at under the microscope. So far, like halfway through the bag, this is what I've found that has called my attention. Smaller marks are mm on the scalebar. Just a couple of questions or observations: - I think the crab claws are not fossils, right? - Are these guys urchin spines? - What do you think this is? It has some symmetry, but I am not sure if fossil or fancy looking (little) rock. - Tiny tiny shark tooth, but what species? - I have no clue what these might be If there's anything else that catches your eye, let me know and I'll take better pics. I really want to start building a good knowledge of the fossils/micro-fossils of the Williamsburg-Norfolk area now that I live here and so far removed from my beloved Peace River. Thanks: Miguel M
  11. NOVA_ranger

    Mini-meg, or something else?

    Found this nice little tooth on Chippokes plantation down in southern VA. It’s just over 1 1/4 inches. It looks meg-ish, but it just seems a bit off. Any ideas?
  12. A few interesting ones from recent trips (tried to flip and scan each side). Finally found a cowshark symphysial, but like most from the creek, it was broken (fewer but better shape from the beaches? Hopefully not broken from screening.) The pathological tooth I posted last trip (a sand tiger quite bent), along with dolphin tooth and skate scute. No big makos, but a few inch or so. A lot of fossil coral chunks at the spot. Not sure the mammal tooth is ID-able; tips of points missing. I like the jaw bone, not common here. A few angel shark teeth, fairly common here.
  13. Andúril Flame of the West

    Localities in the Virginia Area

    Hello everyone, This is my first posting on TFF (although I've been lurking on the forum for a while) and I am excited to be joining a community centered around one of my main interests. I have seen that this forum houses a very kind and helpful community, and I was hoping that some may be interested in helping a - very new and inexperienced - fossil hunter. I will be in the Charlottesville area for Labor Day weekend and I am in search of any tips for finding fossils in that area or general locations where they might be. I am willing to drive up to 3 hours to other locations in Virginia or locations in West Virginia, North Carolina, or Maryland. I have heard that there are some fossils in parts of George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia and I would be very glad to hear where I can find fossils there and if a permit is necessary to hunt for invertebrate fossils in that location. I am most interested in hunting for fossils from the Ordovician, Devonian, and Carboniferous periods, but any fossils would be great. I greatly appreciate any tips or information!
  14. Blue Ridge

    Petrified Wood?

    Hi - I collected these specimens on my property in the Blue Ridge Mtns/Shenandoah Ridge, and I’m being told they are examples of petrified wood. I’m not so sure. I’d love to hear opinions from folks who know a lot more about these formations than I do. Thank you!
  15. Largemouth Bass

    Shark Tooth ID

    Found along the Potomac River, and is half an inch long at best. It's not that visible in these photos but there are faint hints of serrations.
  16. Largemouth Bass

    Otodus?

    Found along the Potomac River in Virginia. About 1.5 inches in length.
  17. Largemouth Bass

    Bone ID

    Having a lot of difficulty with this one. It's about 1 inch in length. Found along the Potomac River.
  18. Found on the beach at Westmoreland State Park, VA on Fossil Beach.
  19. Kiddo found this while looking for shells at the beach in the Southern Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. Looks like driftwood, solid and heavy like rock. Weighs 19 grams and is approx 5cm x 3cm x ¾cm. I told her I would ask. She really hopes it's a bone fossil.
  20. Largemouth Bass

    Shark Tooth ID

    I've been trying to figure out what shark this tooth is from. It was found in the Potomac River near Colonial Beach, VA and is about 1/2 of an inch in length.
  21. Been out of action for awhile. And lots more competition nowadays. Finally got out. My old places had been hit hard. Worked a new spot, and while nothing big, some teeth and curious stuff (stingray barb, small ecphora-- none perfect, some vertebrae, a few angel shark teeth, broken cowshark and mako). Good toget out again!
  22. I’m making this post because I don’t think many TFF members are familiar with Pelagornithidae bony-toothed birds. I first became aware of bony-toothed birds a few years ago when the son of my friend Gary found a beautiful jaw of a bony-toothed bird in the Miocene of Maryland. However, I really wasn’t expecting to find any specimens in the Eocene of Virginia that I regularly collect. However, recently Gary, who I collect with on a regular basis, found a piece of a bony-toothed bird jaw in the Eocene of Virginia. My friend Mike then showed me a really nice specimen that he had also collected in the Eocene of Virginia. So I went back and looked at my Eocene of Virginia specimens and realized I also had a specimen. Even though I and Gary and Mike all have specimens, bony-toothed bird jaw specimens are exceptionally rare from the Eocene of Virginia. In order to confirm my Pelagornithidae bony-toothed bird specimen ID, I e-mailed the below pictures of my and Mike’s specimen to a world renowned Eocene bird expert in Germany, and he replied back with the below excerpt: “You are absolutely right - these are jaw fragments of bony toothed birds. Nice finds!” Below are pictures of my specimen (note the ruler is in millimeter increments): Below are pictures of Mike’s really nice specimen (note the ruler is in millimeter increments): I’m curious if other collectors have found Pelagornithidae bony-toothed bird jaw specimens in the Miocene or Eocene of Maryland or Virginia, and/or if collectors are finding specimens in other places worldwide. If you have a bony-toothed bird jaw specimen, please post pictures to this thread. Marco Sr.
  23. The assistant curator of paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is researching squamates, which includes snakes, from the Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia. A couple of friends and I have given him recently a large number of snake vertebrae, mostly from the sea snakes Palaeophis casei and Palaeophis toliapicus, from the Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia, to support his research. We will donate the specimens needed for his research. He is definitely interested in my large Palaeophis sp. vertebra in the below pictures: I also gave him the snake vertebrae in the below pictures. When I first started finding the sea snake vertebrae in the Nanjemoy Formation, I put them in gem jars in gem jar displays. However, I found so many, that I also then began to put them in just baggies. I also gave some odd ball specimens, which I believe were lizard vertebrae and a snake tooth. Marco Sr.
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