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New Jersey - Big Brook - Higbee Beach Loop Trail - Elsewhere?
Toothie posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello, My work is sending me to New Jersey towards late September. This might be a once in a lifetime search, so I want to make the most of it and I'm hoping my fellow members can help. I did some research and wanted to know your thoughts on these places: Big Brook - I love searching for any fossils, but I really want to find a Crow Shark Tooth. I know I'm limited to the number of teeth I can find here. Would this be a good place to search? I know Septmeber isn't ideal, but this is the only time I can get out here. Does the tide vary greaty each day or is it fairly consistent? I've never found a Native American point and I don't care if I can't keep it, I just want to take in-situ photos of them. I've literally been dreaming about finding them a couple of times a week for the past several months. I read that Higbee Beach Loop Trail might be good for that, but again, I'm not sure if September is good. I only have 2, maybe 3 days to search, depending on what my fellow forum brothers and sisters tell me. Any other places that are better than these? Should I avoid these areas? Any help is truly appreciated. I'm not asking for any honey holes or private spots, even though people have shown me places in other states and I've kept those secret for years and I will never tell. Just friendly advice is truly appreciated. I'm going to Maryland too, but I'm all set there. Have a wonderful day! -
The past couple trips to Ramanessin for shark teeth have been quite productive for the month of July, likely because of all the rain we've been getting. Note: these photos are not in any particular order. I started off grouping teeth by shared characteristics but quickly realized that 1) I do not know nearly enough to accurately identify these teeth 2) holy cow, there are so MANY of them and 3) it started raining outside while I was taking pics. I tried to include a couple close ups. Please let me know if you'd like a closer look at any specific tooth. Constructive criticism and commentary is very much welcomed and appreciated! Here we go, RAMANESSIN BROOK The same teeth are shown below in better quality but without the ruler for scale: Close ups of some teeth: Pile of teeth because I got frustrated and rained on while sorting And last but not least, ALL of my smaller tooth findings:
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This is my first post here, so please bear with me while I figure out proper forum etiquette. Any comments, suggestions, or species identifications are very much welcome! These are my finds from the past 2 trips to Big Brook in July 2023. Check my other post for finds at Ramanessin Brook. I usually come armed with a small children's fishing net and a mini garden trowel. I'm currently looking into getting a real sifter and shovel, but it's tough to do on a PhD student budget. **** I apologize for the poor photo quality. I'll try to find my light box next time for some better macro shots. Without further ado, Big Brook: Belemnites of various sizes Shells, coral, other small items I cannot identify Close ups of shells Something that vaguely resembles a tooth? Unknowns
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Hi everyone, I found two objects at the Big Brook preserve in New Jersey, which is famous for its Cretaceous finds. While I became reasonably good at identifying the common shark/ray/fish teeth, these two objects have me stumped. The left objects looks a bit like a piece of cartilage of some sort? The right looks like a tooth that has two crushing plates on either end, which is kinda weird. Maybe it's not even a tooth. Thanks!
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Found these two bones from Big Brook in NJ. Seems like the one on the right is just a limb bone from a deer, but left one seems too large to be from a deer. Possibly a femur from a cow? Bear? Any other ideas?
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Big Brook, NJ, believe this is a Xiphactinus tooth, but wanted to confirm
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
Tooth has flat facets running most of the length from the crown to the tip, a hollow crown, and is just under an inch long.
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Just got back from another trip to Big Brook in Colts Neck. Wanted to get some thoughts on the pieces I have collected there over the years. Most are probably funny rocks, but some good finds might be mixed in. Let me know if more photos would be helpful on any numbered piece. Thanks in advance. I found this piece and thought it resembled vertebrae body piece from a plesiosaur or mosasaur. Similar looking pieces have been discovered at Big Brook (pic below) See the pics of my piece below. It's a bit hard to see in the photos but the piece is a cylinder about 1.5 inches in length and diameter. It has two flat sides with a generally cylindrical mid-section. It also has two symmetrical nodules on it's lateral sides. Let me know if any other pictures/angles would be helpful. Here is an assortment of other pieces I have found that look like bone fragments and shrimp tunnels to me. Let me know if I've got anything cool or if any individuals pictures would be helpful. Thanks!
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I found this at big Brook in New Jersey last May and was wondering if anyone could help me identify it. It is similar to Enchodus teeth and mosasaur material that I have found but much more thick. I believe that it is too narrow to be mosasaur and was wondering if anyone could help me id it, if it is anything at all. It is very worn down and reflective so getting clear pictures of the details was a challenge. I pointed out a ridge in the tooth that was on both sides in one of the pictures that is more visible than can be pictured. edit : Big Brook is mainly Upper Cretaceous material.
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help identify some pieces we found today at Big Brook in Monmouth county. We found much of the typical sharks and belemnites (pictured), but I can't pinpoint these. Thanks in advance for any help. Also found, what I believe, is an old snail pictured also. Thank you in advance!
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Newbie here, to the forum and fossil hunting. I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and have a couple spots within an hours drive, however so far have only visited Big Brook on a few different occasions with my family over the past month. Definitely addicted! Thought I would share some of my finds. All are fairly common, but totally amazing to me. Not sure on the ID of a few of them, and some I'm not sure if they are even fossils. I find your mind tries to make something out of nothing, especially with rocks. In any case, thanks for looking, and appreciate in advance any feedback, good or bad! 1979 3 3/4" Boba Fett for scale
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My first trip to big brook with the boys yielded lots of cool stuff. I’m a fossil noob but read all the forum posts, facebook, big brook website, fossil guy sit, etc before posting. I have some other pictures to post but these i feel are the strongest change of “being something” What is everyone’s thoughts? coolest stuff i think we have, crab arms/claw, a shrimp?, jaw bone, enamel from dinosaur teeth, shark teeth, fossil clams, impressions of clams, sea turtle bone. I am least sure of 9d though i’m hoping it is a tooth of some kind, could very well be a rock!
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Possible bear claw (not sure if fossil or modern) found in Big Brook, NJ
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
Just found this while hunting today at Big Brook. Not sure if it's fossil or modern, but I'm pretty sure it's a bear claw. Can anyone tell me what I've found here? Thanks!
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Hi everyone, This is the first fossil plant I’ve ever found at big brook in NJ. I found an orange colored rock in the stream bed and saw some odd patterns hidden within. Later when I got home, I tried to take off a layer of rock, and to my suprise, there was a leaf impression. There were other plant impressions within other parts of the rock. I would love to know how old it might be, or if it is more recent and not a fossil at all. Thanks! FullSizeRender.mov
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NJ Big Brook, Rochester Shale, and NY Southern Tier
Rock-Guy-17 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A trip report from a busy week that started with combing through some drilling cores of the Rochester Shale that were being dumped from an old project. No major finds, which was what I expected. I did happen to find a nice Dalmanities pygidium and a few brachiopods that look neat. This weekend I was down in NJ visiting family and took a stop to Big Brook on Saturday. Thank you to a kind member of this forum for giving me hunting advice. Saturday was very rainy, but the rainwater washing the sand off the gravel bar was helpful in my search. I am not familiar with a lot of these fossils, I have tried my best to use online resources to ID what I have. Finally, this week I am in the southern tier near Olean and working near a stream that is on private property. The stream is loaded with brachiopod fossils, hoping to grab a nice piece that hasn't been weathered and stained. A lot of pictures below, ID help is greatly appreciated. 1. Rochester Shale cores drying, revealing some weaker fractures. Finds from Big Brook: I tried to organize these from left to right for ID help 2. Vert and turtle shell piece? 3. I tried to put everything small I did not know in this picture. First tooth in row 2 and the last tooth in row 4 are ones that I am especially having trouble with. Each item here has some feature that is telling me that it is more than just a rock, but I could be wrong. 4. Best teeth that I found, very happy with these. 5. Hoping row one is coprolite. Row two could be other bone pieces? 6. Ray teeth, sawfish and other unknowns 7. Bones? 8. Bone looking r ock? 9. Crab claw and a few other unknowns. No serrations or teeth-like features on these unknowns. 10. Concretions? Southern Tier Field Pic 11. According to maps I am in the Late Devonian, Conneaut Group. Someone told me small sea stars can be found in this similar looking southern tier fossilized strata. Not going to hold my breath.
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Hello all, I just found this bone/fossil in big brook NJ. It is about 3 cm long. I originally thought it was a modern bone, still a neat find, but then after further inspection I found it was not porous and thought it might be a fossil. Anyway any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!
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Hello! We found these two items in Monmouth County, NJ over the weekend. They were in a stream. They may just be rocks, but they look different than anything else we found! If you have any idea if they are rock or something else, I would love to know. Pen included for size. Thank you!
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Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but how can I contact/join MAPS in New Jersey?
TRexEliot posted a topic in Questions & Answers
I've been collecting a few times a year at Big Brook for years now and have a pretty large collection of NJ fossils. I would love to bring some of my stuff to them to get their thoughts and to see if there's anything they would be interested in taking into their collection, but they seem to have virtually no online presence... is there a way to link up with them? -
Fossils or just interesting concretions? Found in Big Brook, NJ
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
Ordinarily I would throw something back if I didn't have at least a tentative ID when I saw it or some strong reason to believe it's a fossil, but this I really wasn't sure about. I have no idea what they might be, but I had never seen a concretion quite like them before in the brook, and I found it even more bizarre that I ended up finding two of them. Any thoughts?
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Found this on a trip to Big Brook today. I have found a piece of devonian coral at the Brook before that I was told here had probably been carried from the devonian deposits in upstate NY by glaciers, any chance this is another?
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Fossil clam found at Big Brook - first of these I've ever seen, is it anything interesting?
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
A bivalve fossil I found at Big Brook yesterday. First one like it I've ever seen, so thought it might be something interesting.
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Piece of bone found at Big Brook - any way of identifying what it might be from?
TRexEliot posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found this fragment of what I think is bone at Big Brook yesterday. Is there any way to tell what it might be from? The shape and density of the fibers kind of remind me of some of the pieces of mososaur jaw I've seen posted, but I don't know if there's any way to ID it from such a small piece.
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Found this on a trip to Big Brook yesterday and having a tough time figuring out what it is. The tooth is missing the tip, but appears to be quite narrow, with a strong curve that would eliminate xiphactinus as a possibility. It looks too narrow to me to be a mosasaur tooth and has no visible carinae. Is there any chance it could be a plesiosaur tooth? Thanks for the help!
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This piece caught my attention because the small bit of remaining outer surface on the bone has a very weathered look to it, which was reminiscent of a large piece of bone I found some years ago that people here told me was likely of terrestrial origin. The bone structure is also quite dense compared to the marine reptile pieces I've found, which as I recall was one of the things I was told last time was diagnostic of terrestrial bone. Any chance this could be of terrestrial origin?
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Found this tiny fragment on a trip to Big Brook yesterday. I've been visiting Big Brook for a long time, and have never come across anything like it. Appears to be a small shard (about .5x1cm) of bone or enamel with a scale-like hexagonal structure on one side, and a bony texture on the other.
