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In between this trip report and the last, I have moved from Houston to Columbia, where I am studying biology at the University of South Carolina, so now I have the opportunitiy to take day trips down to Charleston and Summerville to go fossil hunting, which I am very much looking forwards to doing some more of sometime soon. I made my first trip since moving in on Saturday afternoon to a little creek in Summerville I last hit roughly two and a half months ago. You can see the fruits of that particular trip here: Now, I'm pretty satisfied with the results of this trip, but something important to take away from this, especially for those of you interested in hunting the Summerville area, is that I had both my younger brothers in tow for my July trip to the same creek, and even after 2.5 months and a hurricane, I'm not even getting a sixth of what we pulled out of that creek in July. I hope this illustrates to you just how slowly these Summerville creeks replenish. As has been said many times, if you're traveling to SC to find fossils, your best bet for a good experience is going to be just paying the money to go on a guided fossiling trip with a company like Charleston Fossil Adventures, Palmetto Fossil Excursions, or Charleston Outdoor Adventures. On this trip I sifted gravel for most of the smaller teeth, and the big stuff I found looking through the gravel banks. I really like the colors on that beat up angustidens I found, and that vert is the largest shark vert I've found. I also got a nice Hemipristis lower and a nice bull shark tooth. I'm looking at heading down to Charleston in the next week or two, so expect a post about that sometime soon.
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I received the final piece needed for my Megalodon evolutionary set today! The hardest tooth to obtain by far was the Carcharocles mugodzharicus, and I would like to thank @MarcoSr for his help with that search as well as the generosity with which he shared knowledge about it. I'll mention that I acknowledge the various debates around species naming and went with the ones I believed to be the best fit. I kindly request that we not get into it on this thread.
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Got a pretty decent haul out of Summerville on Tuesday, finally found a creek spot that was halfway decent. Lots of little broken Meg chunks, but the big tooth remains elusive. I did find a nice angustidens, though, which is in excellent shape for a creek tooth of that size. I put the specimens I could use some help identifying in the upper right hand corner of the first picture. I know the top two are mammal teeth of some sort, pretty sure the right one is either horse or camel, but I have no clue about the one on the left. Below them are what I assume is the remains of some sort of coral, and on the bottom is a small mystery tooth in matrix and a strange piece of fossilized something. I would really appreciate it if any of yall could let me know what some of this stuff is. I plan on heading back to this site tomorrow or the next day because we just had a decent storm blow through, so stay tuned!
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Hi everyone, last Friday I went on a fossil hunting trip in S.C. with palmetto fossil excursions, there was a short hike out to the site, it was a beautiful day with an average temp of 85 degrees!!! when we were walking up to the creek area where we were hunting and we found half of what would have been a beautiful 3 1/2 inch meg tooth!!!! less than 15 minutes after that my brother found a massive blade of a mako, less then 10 feet away from the blade of the mako I found a nearly flawless posterior and several other angustidens including one with insane colors, a worn whale vert, an awesome hemi with beautiful colors, and 3 fused shark verts!!! after a short lunch break, me and my brother went to a different spot where I found 2 1 1/2 inch Isurus desori teeth and my brother found a angustiden in matrix, a hastalis and the best desori tooth from the trip all within 7 feet of each other!!!! while our dad was doing the dig tour, he found 2 megs the larger one is a little below the five inch mark, and the shorter one is around 3 1/2 inches!!! overall it was an awesome day!!!!! I’ll post pictures of the best finds alone soon. and there was only one water moccasin spotted!!!
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Hi! So I was browsing for some shark teeth when I came across this bundle of 3 teeth at a very reasonable price. The teeth were listed as being 2 Otodus Obliquus teeth (smaller ones) and 1 Megalodon tooth. Now the supposed Megalodon tooth is obviously not a Meg, as it has cusps (thinking it's either an Angustidens or Auriculatus). I'm also almost certain the two other teeth are not Otodus teeth. Anyone who can safely ID these teeth?
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@Gizmo and I had fun day on a stream in eastern Virginia in July. After emergency renovations on my home, I was in bad need of some restorative time in the field. For about two months, the only fossil hunting I got to do was vicariously through the TFF Trip Reports I've been so focused on coprolites and other aspects of collecting that I am behind on prepping teeth and bone. However, thought I'd share some finds as-is. Below are a few highlights: The larger tooth was found in situ in the Calver formation and has some pretty spectacular feeding damage, including a triangular bite mark and serration scrapes on the enamel: Some odd turtle bits, including a humerus: An ocean sunfish beak:
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Hi I picked up this beauty recently, I think its an Angi but I am no expert and despite reading books on fossil teeth and looking at pictures of others I cannot make my mind up, what is the difference between the Angustidens and Auriculatis, is the Auriculatis more Otodus Obiliquus looking with slight serrations while the Angustidens more Megalodon looking with side cusps ?. It is 2.6" along its longest side if this helps.
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Wando River Charleston, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Summerville, SC Fossil Hunts
Carcharocles (O.) angustidens Also two barracuda teeth in a portion of jaw© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Summerville, SC Fossil Hunts
© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Summerville, SC Fossil Hunts
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens ACE River Basin, SC© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Charleston, SC© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens ACE River Basin, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens ACE River Basin, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens ACE River Basin, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens ACE River Basin, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, South Carolina© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, SC© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, SC© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens Summerville, SC© Matthew Brett Rutland
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From the album: Sharks and their prey ....
Carcharocles angustidens South Carolina Chandler Bridge fm.© Matthew Brett Rutland
