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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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Bivalve Cyclocardia granulata Aurora NC Miocene
JamieLynn posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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Bivalve Astarte concentrica Aurora NC Miocene
JamieLynn posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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As y'all know, I love photographing my fossils almost as much as I love finding them. So of course, I have to do a Year in Review of my best fossil finds! I seem to be averaging about 150 best finds a year....not too shabby methinks! Hope y'all all had a great fossiliferous 2022 and that 2023 is EVEN BETTER
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Museum shirt was worn out. In the area (within an hour). Picked up this sweet hat instead. Wife grabbed a new shirt. Stopped long enough to fill a bucket for micro hunting this winter and snagged a nice tooth.
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Although I didn't find anything impressive, I thought I would share my first Aurora experience anyway, for those who have never been. My husband and I made an impromptu trip to Aurora yesterday after hearing that they just got a new pile from the mines on Tuesday (opened it Wednesday). It was a 5 hr drive each way, so we had to start really early, but there were already a lot of people digging when we arrived at 10. Only one of the two piles had been replaced, although they are trying to get the second pile replaced before the middle of October. Word seems to get out quickly when they have a new pile and there were probably 50 people on our pile at once by the end of the day, so there wasn't much room other than to dig yourself one hole and hope you found a good spot. We had quickly made sifters the night before and made two different screen sizes, but the bigger one was way too big so my husband decided not to even use it. We didn't find anything to write home about, but did get a couple of things that I don't find much of in Summerville. You could occasionally hear someone else excited about a find, but most of those were beginners and the finds were broken 1/2 inch teeth. The guy beside me did find two or three broken cow shark teeth and a half of a maybe 3 inch meg. Other than that, I saw someone with a nice mako and someone with a big great white, but it had a broken root (or it looked like it from where I was sitting). There were rumors that two megs had been found in the old pile the day before, but I didn't hear about size or condition. The museum was smaller than I expected, but one area was closed off, so I don't know how much was off exhibit. It was still nice to see some of the displays. The weather was nice, which was appreciated since the new pile was in the full sun all day. So, my husband didn't sift and didn't even look as long as I did (which was about 5.5 hours), but here are some pictures of our finds. The whole teeth: The broken teeth: Lots of ray mouthparts: A dolphin tooth: We also picked up a few shells, pieces of bone and vertebrae, a small piece of crab claw, and some other random things. I'm not sure if it is still allowed, but we put some of the material that we had already screened in a couple zipper bags and brought them home so I could try looking for micro teeth. It was very tedious so I'm sure I still could have found smaller teeth, but I decided it wasn't worth any additional effort (and neck pain). Here are the micro teeth: So, all in all, it was a good experience, but probably not worth making the drive very often. We did end up with probably about 500 teeth (including the broken ones), but I was hoping for a couple nice larger teeth. Thanks for reading!
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https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/aurora-fossil-museum-helps-identify-walrus-fossil-tusk-found-in-north-carolina/ I have seen a number and even found a Very small piece ...but I am not sure that I would have identified this as Walrus...
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My wife and I made our way down to North Carolina for the Aurora Fossil Museum's Fossil Festival last weekend. Overall it was a pretty productive trip and we came away with well over 1000 shark teeth, some nice shells, lots of ray teeth, some shark, fish and cetacean verts, small cetacean teeth and a bucket of coral pieces. We heard many of the regulars say that the tailings weren't as productive as other years, but I saw quite a few nice specimens being collected. A few of the larger teeth, most of ours were damaged, but some of the colors are great: Lots of smaller teeth, I will try to take some better pics once I get them sorted and layed out flat: Ray teeth and spines: All the verts were pretty beat up: A good sampling of shells: Crab claws: Sea Urchin spines: I couldn't manage to find a whole cow shark tooth, but I did see a gorgeous little complete one come out of the hole next to me. Here are a few partials we found: A few micro samples, I did grab a few jars of sifted matrix once I realized how many small teeth were falling through And lots and lots of coral my wife wanted for some project she wants to do: Overall it was a good time. We met a lot of friendly and interesting folks and my wife already asked if I wanted to book the place we stayed to come back next year. Thanks for looking, Randy
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From the album: Lee Creek
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From the album: Lee Creek
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From the album: Lee Creek
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I have yet again more Aurora fossils that I can’t identify. I would appreciate any help with identifications, these should be the last of the unknowns and I’ll create a Member Collections post about my best finds but first it would be nice to know what these are. Sorry for no scale but the diameter of the circle surrounding most photos is 10mm. 1. This one is very odd, I have no idea. 2. Fish tooth I’m guessing. Can you tell what kind. I would not want to get bitten by it. 3. This one’s larger than most of the fish teeth, about 3-4mm It’s also more conical in shape. 4. Probably my largest non-shark tooth from here. Could it be Gator or Croc? 5. Completely clueless on this one. 6. Another unknown tooth. 7. Bryozoan I’m guessing, they can take all kinds of shapes. 8. Very odd shaped shark tooth. Not the typical capital T or triangle. 9. Another odd shark tooth, shaped like a claw. Reminds me of a whale shark tooth but something doesn’t seem right. 10. I’m not good with these teeth that aren’t in a typical anterior position. 11. Last one, same story as #10, it’s difficult to identify the teeth that aren’t “normal”. Thank you in advance. I appreciate any and all help and am willing to provide more photos of it assists in identification.
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Went through about half a pint of the sifted matrix I brought home from Aurora. There were shark teeth as I had expected, way more urchin spines than I would have guessed and some small coral like pieces I'm not sure exactly what they are. Nice sample including the pieces in the top left I am trying to identify: Tried taking pic with clip on micro lens for the phone:
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I was looking through all the bone fragments my wife and I found in Aurora, NC recently and noticed 2 of the pieces had evenly spaced notches along one side. The only thing I could think of is split jawbone fragments. Thoughts?
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Hi Everyone! I'm willing to trade these 2 big boys from my personal collection. I'm looking for Megalodon teeth from more exotic Locations. Chile, Peru, Carribean for example. But also LC aurora and Mehherrin. Always open to other offers too. Tooth 1: Grey 6'05 from SC Small resto done to the lower sides of the restorations. Done professionally. But furthermore natural and practically perfect. Tooth 2: 6'40 coast Meg tooth from NC No restorations done. Almost half a kilo. Absolute monster.
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