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Well I managed to lure the wife into another beach excursion. The only stipulation was that I was in charge of cooking barbecue dinner. We packed up the car and drove 90 minutes to our destination with a four month old. My daughter was good for the most part but she had her moments. Here's the trip in a nutshell. Mrs Fossil-Hound with baby and I at the top of the cliffs. The drive was certainly worth it. The beach office had a custom Miocene Shark Tooth display with a lot of large teeth. A box of free shark teeth for travelers! A coveted fern plate from the Pennsylvanian of St. Clair PA. Massive prehistoric whale vertebrae. The office manager said he found this on the shoreline after a storm. Found some beautiful Chesapecten nefrens from the Choptank and St Mary formations. Went to my secret spot and starting seeing Ecphora's poking out of the mud. This one looks complete but was broken on the inside. This large Ecphora was another heart breaker. Found a marble sized Ecphora and began the long trek back towards the cabins when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a few large ribs sticking out of the mud. I worked carefully around the edges and took my time. The result was an Ecphora gardnerae the state fossil of Maryland and one of my favorite fossils. The back side view. This specimen is in dire need of cleaning. That night I began to clean the Ecphora. After a light cleaning, super glue was applied to all of the cracks. Referring to a complete specimen on the right I continued to carefully remove sand and mud from the gastropod. This morning more glue was applied along with some more light cleaning. Still a lot of cleaning to do. Notice the crack on the left side. I applied a lot of super glue to this snail. Made leaps and strides in cleaning it tonight. Here it is after the initial phase of cleaning. More cleaning and possibly another coat of superglue to some small cracks will be underway tomorrow.
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A few weeks ago I went to one of my favorite secret spots at Calvert Cliffs where I had recovered some Ecphora's in the past (all fairly beat up). That day I recovered a pristine Ecphora in the mud. I carefully extracted the shell nearly 1.5 inches wide and 2.5 inches in height and proceeded to clean the shell in the nearby surf when to my horror a particularly strong wave knocked the shell from my hands and I watched the shell dash to pieces in the surf. I quickly recovered all the pieces I could find but alas I have give this gastropod the name, "Humpty Dumpty." It appears that despite numerous patches with superglue and careful removal of dirt and sand, I simply do not have all the pieces of the puzzle, so without further ado I present my best attempt at preparing and restoring of this once proud shell. The picture with most of the shell exposed and the opening really doesn't look to bad and I might keep it because these are not easy to find from the location I was at (at least not whole).
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Discovered along the Choptank Formation near the surf as is.
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Not sure if this is anything or not. Anyone have a clue?
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I found this small fossil specimen recently along Calvert Cliffs, MD. It seems to be missing some portion and I've never seen anything that looks like this. My first guess is that it is some sort of bird vertebra? Any ideas would be appreciated. Daryl.
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There's a debate as to whether or not Great Whites evolved from Makos. There's also enough scientific evidence to suggest they do. See: This tooth can therefore be classified as either Isurus hastalis or Carcharodon hastalis. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isurus_hastalis
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Calvert Cliffs Collectors - Land Mammals and Seals
fossilguy posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello all, I've updated one of my pages: http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/calvert/calv_vert.htm The Calvert Cliff Vertebrate Identification section (No Sharks Allowed). It's been in need of an update for about 10 years now! I am looking to beef up the Land Mammals and Seal section (as I lack these fossils) and am wondering if any Calvert Cliff collectors would be willing to let me use a photo of their seal teeth and/or other land mammal fossils, oh, or birds from the cliffs. Full credit given of course. You can PM me back if you have any and would allow me to use them. Thanks! Jayson K- 3 replies
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Had a phenomenal trip down at Calvert Cliffs on Wednesday with my three month old daughter strapped to my chest. This trip makes up for my failed attempts in March where the sandbars where at an all time high and made it difficult to find anything. The sandbars pushed up from the storms a few months back even helped me to get to some hard to reach locations. Here's some finds and a scouting report for May of the cliffs. Also recovered a nearly perfect decently sized Ecphora gardenae that is still undergoing some preparation work. I'll take a picture of that and post it later along with some very large clams with Ecphora burrow holes. The blood red Mako as found in the sand. I rarely sift as the waves and storms (from the weekend) are constantly exposing the fossil record. Some of the nicer specimens of the day. Two makos on the left, snaggletooth bottom right and top middle. Cow shark with eight blades top right, and a decent sized tiger shark top middle. Recovered more Chesapecten nefrens that I could carry out. This is just a fragment of the shells recovered and layed out neatly in the trunk of my car. Some of the C. nefrens where about 5-6 inches in diameter and impressive to find intact as there were so many large shell fragments. These should make for some beautiful display pieces and gifts once they are cleaned up. Notice the right fins of the C. nefrens are larger than the left fins. This is a noticeable characteristic of this fossil scallop. Approaching the cliffs. The tides where up much higher this time but the waves where very gentle. This photo was taken around 7:00 am. The vegetation overgrowth should help to keep the cliffs from falling. Another shot of the blood red mako. I'll take a closeup of the other Mako later as it's a green-yellow cream color. Somebody found this stranded snapper turtle and carried him 3 miles back up to a freshwater pond. What a nice guy and what a cool looking turtle. A bunch of teeth, turritella, shark vertebrae, ray plates, makos, sand tiger, tiger, requiem, ecphora gardenae, crab claw tip, Megalodon root, and snaggletooth teeth collected by a local collector and myself combined from this trip and a recent trip. Matoaka cabins beach shore. The winds here were very strong and kicked up a lot of dust with some impressive waves. I had to protect my newborn in my chest as I braved the winds. Image 8: Female blue crab that appears to have deposited her eggs and passed away to be washed up on the shore. This is a good sign that the bay is recovering from over-crabbing. Crabs are vital to the bay's overall health as they are scavengers and eat decaying fish and other decomposing critters on the bottom of the bay. Male blue crab. You can tell it's a male by the "state capitol" on the underside. Perhaps his mate was the female that just layed her eggs.
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Found this fossil today at Flag Ponds in Calvert County, MD, home of the Miocene era Calvert Cliffs formation. Found dozens of shark teeth today but never seen anything like this. First time posting here so please let me know if more details would be useful! Don't break my heart and tell me it's just a shell fragment and I was over eager.
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Found these two teeth today at a private beach at Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. Any help with IDing them is appreciated.
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Hey Everyone, Found this odd meg-tooth shaped thing last weekend hunting around Calvert cliffs area in Maryland. Hopefully the images suffice. But seems to be mostly iron (?). Does anyone know what this is, or how it formed? Looks like it may have been a meg tooth at one point? I am new to fossil hunting so forgive my suggestions if they are way off.
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Found some goodies today at Brownie. Can anyone ID the vert. Many Thanks!
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Sorry if this is basic to most people here, but are these from a Mako? They don't look like the samples I see in identification guides. Many Thanks!
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs - 3/7/17
I'm not sure what type of vertebra this is as it doesn't resemble a whale or dolphin vertebra. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's a bird. Maybe someone can help me identify it. -
From the album: Calvert Cliffs - 3/7/17
Whale vertebra with the missing fans. I've found one before that was at least 4 times as large, and it's neat to find a smaller specimen. -
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I've never seen a vertebra or bone like this. It's definitely bone because of the porosity on the sides. On the left of the picture there are two knobs poking out on the upper left and bottom left. I have no clue were these fit into and there's a depression between these knobs. I think vertebrae and bones are really neat because they all fit together like pieces in a puzzle and remind me of playing with legos when I was little. Props to anyone who can guess what this is but my bet would be some sort of whale. -
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A side view of the previously supposed bird (i.e. gull) vertebra. -
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Assortment of shark vertebrae. -
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Here's an assortment for shark teeth including a snaggletooth (Hemi.) and requiem sharks (related to modern day bull sharks). It wasn't a great day for finding teeth because there were no tides and most of the old stuff was picked over, but I had fun. -
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Ecphora is one of my favorite fossils. I remember seeing it for the first time in college and it made a good first impression on me because of it's simplicity and beauty. Here's a decent specimen with some weathering holes. Ecphora were predatory snails and would use their mouth to drill into other shells and eat out their insides. -
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View of the sandbar with a disintegrating pier jutting out into the bay. -
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Stranded jellyfish in a pool of water. These jelly fish were all over the beach. -
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I thought these were interesting. Though not fossils they seem to be some form of metamorphic quartzite granite. I recently went through the Virginia Beach museum were an info panel said rocks from the Appalachians had shifted towards the bay over time, and helped to compose the glassy quartz based sand kernels. These rocks are evidence of their origin. -
Hey everyone, Though they may not be very impressive specimens for most of you (especially the sharkteeth collectors), I am still extremely happy with my 2 new additions to my collection: I got my most complete Notorhynchus tooth till now, one with all the cusps present and a majority of the root; and also my very first MEGALODON TOOTH!!! Yes, I didn't have a single megalodon tooth in my collection till now, though I have been collecting for over 7 years. And even though they are both rather small teeth, the megalodon being a posterior tooth too, I am still extremely glad with them. In fact, there is a Dutch proverb that fits this situation perfectly: "klein maar fijn" (small but nice). Both teeth come from the Calvert Cliffs (Miocene). I got them in a trade with the amazing Dave @Darktooth, with whom I have had a great chat thanks to this forum! Therefore: thank you Dave!!! Best regards, Max
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I had to attend a work event in Baltimore on Friday morning so I used that as an excuse to check out Brownies Beach in the afternoon. I arrived at noon and got dressed and quickly headed down to the beach...I was pretty shocked at how low the water was, the north winds really pushed it out. I set out to start exploring and realized two things: 1. I didn't need my waders and 2. I was way overdressed...despite the cool temperatures and some sporadic snow showers, I was hot! Anyway, I worked the beach as far as I could, finding some teeth and vertebras sporadically along the way, I found the Mako right before I turned around. I started back and ran into another tooth hunter, after chatting for a few minutes I found out it was WAHAMA90! The two of us hunted together the rest of the time there, it was quite enjoyable to have someone to chat with and to learn how he approaches the beach. True to form, he found a cow shark tooth there...I swear that he is the king of cow shark teeth! I really enjoyed the area and the company, I'll definitely be back! Couple of beach shots, extremely low tide! One of my first teeth. Mako as I found it. Total haul. The Mako was just shy of 2 inches. This vertebrae was pretty interesting to me, the first one that I have found that was flat in shape.
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