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Found on the beach at Westmoreland State Park, VA on Fossil Beach.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Hello everyone, I am currently staying at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles County Virginia doing research on evolution (on living animals not fossils) and yesterday I decided to take a walk around mountain lake. This lake and the hotel next to it was actually the location that the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed in but due to natural geological processes the lake is now almost completely drained. This draining has revealed a lot of the sandstone and limestone that once made up the lake bed. I was not going here looking for fossils but when I sat down to rest I saw the Pygidium of a trilobite! I am pretty sure that this trilobite is probably of Silurian age but could also be from the Ordovician. I am not sure if its genus can be identified but I thought it was a cool find nonetheless and worth sharing. I will be returning to the bank to see if I find anything else and will post them in this thread if I do.
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Hello, I am going to be spending most of my summer at a biological research station near Blacksburg Virginia. I was wondering if there were any good locations to go fossil hunting within a relatively short drive. I know about the Lost River site and other places in that area but I was wondering if there were any sites closer by, I have a good amount of experience fossil hunting in the northeast and mid Atlantic but am very unfamiliar with the area so any info would be very appreciated. Sincerely, Caleb.
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Hello Everyone, I am heading to the Potomac River this weekend and was wondering what fossils I may find there and what collection methods are the best. Thank you in advance! Best regards, Nathan
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Hello, I live in the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and find an amazing variety of rocks and stones on my property. I am no geologist but am deeply curious about the kinds of rocks I collect. I’m going to post photos of two here that I recently picked up, and am hoping someone can share their wisdom with me on what they might be! Thanks.
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Need some help confirming what type of tooth this partial specimen is. I found it along the Potomac in Virginia. I think it is a snaggletooth, but something seems weird about that diagnosis. Thanks!
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Any ideas what type of bone piece this is? I am inclined to say it is a skull piece from a whale. It is heavy - seems too heavy to be a vert fragment. Found it in the Potomac near Stratford Hall and the Horsehead Cliffs. (VA/MD)
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Happy to share a moment I’ve been waiting a long time for… FullSizeRender.MOV
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Hello all! First post here. I have lurked in the past. I am a avid shark tooth hunter in Virginia. Today I picked up a small shark tooth and then about a foot away I found this. I don’t have a clue and have searched online to no avail. Originally I believe I was looking at it upside down. I was thinking canine. But I now believe what I thought were the teeth are actually the roots. Any info is greatly appreciated. This came from the rappahannock river in the tappahannock area.
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Pickings at the beaches are still slim lately (a few coprolite burrows), and I haven't been out as much as I would like. Here are some of my findings from my last four trips or so to the fresh water creek I hunt. There is at least one weird thing that I will probably post in the ID section; not sure it's a fossil, could be part of a leaf or an arthropod, looks fragile. My prizes are a 2"+ mako (blade is in good shape, root is there but rough) and another cow shark tooth (I thought I counted 7 points but not clear in the photo. Several angel shark and drum teeth. A few rough teeth, bones (maybe Tilly bones in a few cases). A skate scute and two small vertebrae. A bunch of small spikes (a couple with matrix attached?) and triangular teeth. Always nice to be out. The water's super cold from the snow melt but NO competition, and always great to be out in the woods.
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This is one of my favorite oddities: it’s a spherical colony of bryozoans from the York River of Virginia. You’ll see from the closeup that’s it’s layers upon layers of colonies. There’s no telling how deep they go… is there a pebble at the center? Anything at all? Specimen is 7cm. It’s tricky to find ID’s for these, but I’m curious if this is an encrusting bryozoan or a coral. Also, it’s just neat and wanted to share. Frank
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in Charlottesville, VA. I found my first shark teeth at Brownie's Beach in MD about 5 years ago and was immediately hooked, but I didn't get seriously into fossil hunting until a friend posted online about taking his kids to Fossil Beach in Westmoreland Park, a little over two hours' drive from Charlottesville. I went with a friend and found only one tooth but also lots of other interesting, unexpected stuff, including a tilly bone, a couple of clam molds, and a small pelecypod mortality plate (in this case, more like a "mortality rock"). Then I discovered the Natural History Society of MD and went on several of their fossil-hunting field trips to Stratford Hall, which is very near Westmoreland Park. I found some bigger--still not big, but varied and interesting (including a small but very exciting posterior chubutensis and a fossil mako tooth!)--teeth, a wahoo jaw section with 4 teeth, a bunch of double chesapecten nephrens (thanks to Cory, one of the Paleo guides!), lots of fossil bone fragments and some "cookies," a tree oyster cast, several different gastropod casts. and all sorts of other stuff, all of which I've found really exciting. Also, I just really like to get out and walk the beach, even when I don't find much. I don't know very much, though, about fossils in general or geologic ages; about the particular fossils to be found in Virginia and MD; or about much of anything related to fossil hunting, geology, or paleontology. My friends have been good about humoring me, but I'd like to make some friends who are interested in fossils and who know more than I do (which wouldn't take much! I'm in awe of all the knowledge here). Anyway, I'm rambling. I'm excited to have found you all.
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Hey! It occurred to me that I didn’t introduce myself properly. I jumped into the action too fast without reading all the guides. I’ve been interested in paleontology my whole life and visited this forum, but haven’t become a part of it until finally having something worthy of IDing. Excited to learn about everyone and their treasures!
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Hello All! As you can see by the title of my post and the plethora of pictures to follow, I have been quite busy... busy fossil hunting that is! Since New Years I have been averaging at least one trip per weekend which is a good fix to distract myself from the less-than admirable weather (I just want spring!!!!!). This whole week is off for me since I'm off on Spring Break and that means I can go out hunting during the week to avoid the crowds which is always pleasant to get the beach to yourself. Also with the turn of the season and somewhat "warm" weather we have had I was able to launch my kayak for the first time this season this past weekend and I hope to make good use of my kayak. If any other members would like to hunt sometime feel free to message me (also anyone who wants to take me out on their boat I would take that offer too! ) I'll post a thread of my recent trips along with my more favorite finds and some fossil ID help. I'd also like to add that I have successfully taken over our family dining room and turned it into my own private fossil collection (sorry mom) and I love how it shows the true variety of teeth you can find as well as the differences in locations and the fauna you can find. The paper towels are all from recent trips and the plates are all from previous trips to Stratford Hall which I divided into plates for each different species.
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Fossil Hunting Sites Near Charlottesville, Virginia
Megalodoodle posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
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Any ideas ? No (visible) foramen. Approx 1” x 1.5”
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Hi folks. I've had some of these for a while and have tried to ID them using the resources referenced by the forum. Did not want to post without trying to see what I could ID first. Appreciate the help! Also unsure of the ages if anyone knows. Guesses for Image 1 from left to right. Locality, Myrtle Beach, SC Row 1: Tiger? (It is thicker than the rest); Great White; Auriculatus?; Requiem?; Sand Tiger Row 2: Sand Tiger; Bull?; Lemon; Short-fin Mako?; White Shark?; Mako? Guesses for Image 2 from left to right. Locality: Potomac River, VA Row 1: Requiem Shark?; Snaggle?; Big Lemon? Row 2: Hammerhead; ??; Mako; Lemon? If I stare at the small ones too long they all start to look like lemon shark teeth. A friend told me the tooth in photo one, row one right next to the penny is a baby meg, but I think it's too small.
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Hi all, went on a fossil hunting trip recently and I found some things I'm unsure of. these were found off of Route 60 in the Reedsville formation. My best guess ( assuming this isn't concretion of course) was this may be some sort of horn coral. there was another splinter of rock that looks like it could be a cluster of brachiopods but what kind I have no idea.
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Hi all, I collected this fossil a while back, I’m wondering, is it an example of a large ostracod? The fossil is from the Devonian Chemung/Foreknobs formation near New Castle, VA. I have no idea what it is, but ostracods are known from the area, and I could see them as a possibility. Any ideas? *fossil is 3cm in length
