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For the past few days I’ve had very little sleep. I thought that I had messed up sleeping way past the low tide time, but in hindsight that Meg was gonna be mines anyways so it really didn’t matter. It’s been a while since I’ve collected some good material, It’s been a bit of a hit and miss so far but I think my luck is finally starting to turn over. I’ve been going to this Paleocene spot a lot lately so I figure it would be nice to change thing up a bit. Anyways, from the title you guys can probably infer that I’ve found my first Meg of 2021 which I’m pretty happy about because I found none last year. Anyways, I also found a posterior mako, some nice snaggles, a thresher, croc tooth, puffer fish mouth plate, a retroflexis mako tooth, my largest bull shark tooth to date, and a crab carapace to top it all off. Probably one of my most productive days on this small stretch of beach, I’m really looking forward to April 17 when I can go past the ropes (on a guided trip I don’t do trespassing) here’s the spoils from yesterday: Here’s all the stuff from this beach. Without my large screen I’d get maybe a quarter of this.some of the best teeth I got from this small beach. Biggest tooth by far is that gigantic bull shark.pictures of the mini megalodon. Yes, I know it looks like a bull shark tooth but the root is thicker than the bull sharks I found today and it has a very worn bourlette on it. But I assure you it’s a Meg (unless it isn’t and I’m told otherwise) good trip all around! Can’t wait to come back here soon.
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Cabin fever made me stupidly ignore the weatherman (another institution I no longer trust) and head out into the 100% chance of rain and cold. Tried to avoid getting wet, as it WAS cold. Tried a very old spot, and was surprised at the results (the beach where I normally hunt has lost all its sand (?) and I've found no teeth their my last three trips). No rain, Birds were uproariously singing, Spring on the way! The creek was high and icy, saw no aquatic life. Anyway, found a bunch, showing the most interesting. Although big makos are nice (and I like the piebald one better though the 2" black one is nice!), I'm always excited by the little ones (which is a good thing, since mostly what i find)-- four angel shark, a couple broken cowshark and symphyseal/ parasymphyseal sand tiger tooth, and lots of drum teeth (turned one on the side as it apparently still has the attachment as well as the glossy "cap"):
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I found this walking up my creek after the water settled from several days of heavy rain.
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Hello, I am curious about this piece of what i think may be a jaw fragment. Found on James River in Virginia within Yorktown Formation. There appears to be one intact tooth and a portion of an adjacent tooth that has broken, leaving a cavity. Measures approx 2 x 1.5 x 1 cm. (The background grid is in centimeters) Appreciate any/all feedback. Thanks!!
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Last month I collected fossil shells at several exposures in Virginia of the Late Miocene Eastover Formation (Cobham Bay Member) and Early Pliocene Yorktown Formation (Sunken Meadow Member). While my intention was to focus on the larger fossils, when I got home and started to clean my finds, I thought it would be cool to screen the excess debris and see what else I had found. Although I ended up finding a lot of tiny shells and shell fragments, they require a microscope to see and the fine details have made identification challenging. I have consulted several publications on these formations and yet I am a bit stumped on these last ten fossils. Any help further narrowing these down would be greatly appreciated! Eastover Formation #1 #2- Gari sp.? #3- Nucula sp.? Yorktown Formation #4 #5 #6- Chama congregata? #7- Chama congregata? #8 #9 #10
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Hi All, I am new to this forum. I am over my head in what is, in my novice opinion, a preponderance of quartz stone tools that go back to the Pleistocene. Among the unverified relics, I have found a variety of bones which appear to have been altered for use as tools. Additionally, they have what appear to be teeth marks at the edges, as if a person was holding them in hand and biting. I wanted to post a pic of a rib that I think belongs to a Camelid. I have spent a lot of time looking over pictures of all sorts of mammal ribs, and Camelids come the closest. Additionally, I viewed a post on this site where a person posted the exact same bone, and said a expert told him it was probably a Camelops. Notably, this bone has had the vertebrae side sawed off. It fits in hand perfectly to accommodate waist level thrashing. If these are teeth marks, it seems possible it was done intentionally to give the rib more of an abrasive blade for thrashing. Speculation aside, positively identifying this bone will at least give me some confidence that I am (or am not) in the right period of human history. Thanks for your help!
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Braved the cold, icy water for some digging in gravel and the hopes of something special. Miserable, cold and rainy, and I'm sore today from squatting. Not much quality wise in shark teeth, but good variety and quantity. And no evidence of recent competition from the local kids (and adults). All playing computer games? Was happy to find some pieces of cowshark teeth (always wonder if I break them digging through the gravel?), several sand tiger symphyseal/ parasymphyseal teeth, a few angel shark, and apparently some small mako. As usual lots of broken/split teeth. I stuck my arm in the ice water to feel around in the muck for something bigger, but nothing. Will try another, but needs to warm up/ dry up a bit.
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I have been fishing more than beach combing and the collecting has been poor (or maybe I'm going blind!) Lots more people this year hunting stuff with metal detecters, screens and better eyes. This would have been great for one trip, but accumulated over 8(?) trips. Hopefully with better winter storms more will turn up, and the cold will keep most people away.
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Although I haven't been beach hunting much this winter (fishing was great until a few weeks ago), I rooted around for my shrimp coprolite burrows. Lately I have been finding less of the cylindrical 1-3" long burrows and more broken pieces. @Carl @GeschWhat are the experts on these things, and lately I've found more of them on the beachs than shark teeth (Covid-19 opened the interest in beach combing so more competition for teeth.) Difficult to get much resolution, even enhancing the contrast, but this is a scan of most of my collection:
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Hey y’all! I’m going to be in the VA beach/Norfolk area for a few days in mid Feb. Anyone have tips for hunting in the area? And/or does anyone know of any fossil hunting tours/guides that I could get in touch with? I’m clueless about the area, but I am willing to drive up to 2hrs for a fossil hunting day trip! I know it’ll be chilly, but I’ve got my waders and wool socks ready Thank you!
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Hello ! just wondering if anyone has ever been to Chippokes State Park Plantation in Surry Va. I have been there about 6-8 times haven’t had much luck there. I’ve found probably only 10 teeth at that location. Can anyone share their finds from there? @HoppeHuntinghave you ever been to Chippokes? If so have you had much luck there?
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I found this tooth a few years back collecting at Stratford hall on the tour (it was a great day) and now that I look at it twice it doesn’t look like any of my makos that I ah e in my collection and believe me, I have a lot of makos. So that brings me to ask, what exactly is it? It’s about 1 1/4 inches long and I have lower makos but they don’t look like this. Here’s some photos I hope I can get to the bottom of this!
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We found this specimen today on the beach at Chincoteague Island, Virginia, USA. It's about 25 cm long and has a spongy looking interior. My first thought on seeing on the beach from far away was that it was a fin. Some edges are smooth suggesting that shape. But up close it's hard as a rock. Anyone know what this is?
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I found both of these on the Potomac in a unique site with Paleocene Eocene AND Miocene exposures. I was not able to identify them, does anyone know what they could be?
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Please help identify: Is this Isurus retroflexus (longfin mako) tooth?
The Meg posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Four separate specimens, all partials. Found in the needmore formation (mid Devonian) near Winchester Virginia. First specimen- first 2 pictures- 1.6 cm: I’m guessing some sort of orthocone nautiloid but the evenly spaced squigly patterns threw me off (I find a lot of them but they don’t have that pattern). Also the fact that it bends a bit (second photo is taken at an angle to give an idea how the cast bends) although this could be from geologic forces. Second specimen- second two pictures- 3 mm: I honestly have no clue. Seemingly has spines? Seemingly thin bodied? Body seems like it has two lobes that might have some kind of segmentation? Third specimen- 5th photo- 4 mm at widest point: I would have assumed it was a partial of some kind of brachiopod but the pattern is checkered which I haven’t seen in a brachiopod out here. Also has those 3 main parallel ridge lines. Fourth specimen- 6th and 7th picture- 5mm: I know it looks like a crinoid stem cross section but they don’t look like that in this formation. I’ve found one other specimen that’s identical to this one but I can’t find it at the moment. Both are convex and don’t have any material continuing through the rock, it’s almost like a button. As always I’m greatly appreciative of the help I always find here. Y’all are alright.
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Bone fragment found on the York River in Virginia. It is the Yorktown Formation, Pliocene epoch. I'm wondering if it is a vertebrae fragment, and what species it might belong to. It's convex on one side, and concave on the other.
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I haven’t posted here in a while - I’ve been busy finding teeth.
FreshWaterSharK posted a topic in Fossil ID
My collection from the past year and a half. I have some I need help on IDing I will post soon. I just wanted to show off my spoils from hundreds of hours of searching on kayak, mud stomping through creeks and researching. All of these were found in VA
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Greetings, Hopefully this will be easy since I only have one picture for now. I noticed this large fossil (?) when I was moving stepping stones. It is about 23cm long and 4cm wide. It is in a large stone I collected on the edge of a hay field, about 8 meters from the Tye River, in Nelson County, Virginia, USA, on the edge of the Piedmont, near the Blue Ridge. I apologize for not having better pictures. I noticed it back in February but gave up trying to identify it months ago when I could not find anything similar. Obviously, I do not have any fossil knowledge but I enjoy learning and it would be nice to be able to know more about what created this curious impression. Thank you for your guidance.
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Found this odd 9" long jaw-like fossilized bone in a small creek within the Yorktown formation in Virginia between the York River and I-64. It is atypical of the Baleen Whale and Ice Age mammal bones I have found in the same area. Any help with identifying this specimen would be appreciated.
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I love the ecphora for their improvisations but... I’ve searched the photos from Ward and Petuch for anything similar to this ecphora from the James River in Virginia. It’s a globose shell with six distinct costae. specimen is three inches long.
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Hello! i recently found a small, broken mammal molar. The occlusal surface is worn flat partially, this maybe difficult to see from the photos, it seems small to be an older pig, but pig was my first guess. If that is correct I guess it would most likely not be a “fossil”, although it seems to have some qualities consistent with mineralization. Is it conceivably human, about the same size and in better shape than some of mine! Very curious find for me and probably obvious for some members. thanks for your time!
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