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Hi! This shark tooth (?) was found along a Delaware, USA beach. Though I do find great joy in finding fossils/artifacts, I am not a hunter, nor do I have any knowledge of this type of thing. What I know: - Found in Delaware, USA on the sandy shoreline of the beach. - It is about 4cm (~1.5 inches) at the top. - Photos below! Can you tell me: - Who this belonged to? - How old it is? Thank you so very much! front front back

The little man and I went to the C&D canal. His first and my second visit. Nice adventure out with success.. Happy Hunting

"Feelin' Groovy" today! I'm a self-taught and well-mentored paleontologist. I've been volunteering at my local natural history museum, identifying, cataloguing, and studying a donation of thousands of cretaceous invertebrates from a single locality along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in the US. My first paper, peer reviewed, is now online. https://zenodo.org/record/7901663#.ZFk6xnbMJPY

Can anyone possibly identify what type of shark this came from. Its my first ever shark tooth and my prized possession hahaha i found her on bennets pier beach milford delaware out of the delaware bay

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Hi all. I very recently got back into paleontology and archeology. I would absolutely love to be able to look for my own fossils, but I’m having a very hard time finding up-to-date information on any public fossil site in the state of Delaware. I heard about the Canal and Pollock farm, but I can’t find any directions to the farm, and I heard the canal no longer has accessible fossils. any help regarding the subject would be greatly appreciated.

I found these tiny fossils amongst some micros collected at the C&D Canal (Late Cretaceous; Mount Laurel Formation). I am fairly certain that #2 is a sea star ossicle. I am less certain about #1 and #3. They remind me a little bit of crinoid pieces and I have found crinoid material at the site. Both have a subtle pore-like pattern on them that is reminiscent of the surface texture of some crinoid dorsal cups I collected in the Pennsylvanian of Texas. Any help would be greatly appreciated. #1- the big one in the middle is 5mm #2- 3mm #3- 3mm

I found this tiny fossil amongst some micros collected at the C&D Canal (Late Cretaceous; Mount Laurel Formation). It kinda reminds me of a fish jaw. It only measures 7mm in length. I have found fish vertebrae at the site. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A few years ago, I found a fossilized something on the Beach at Cape Henlopen. It was embedded in quartz. It looked kinda like a belemnite, but the wrong material. I was told by Plax that it was much older than our cretaceous belemnites. I tucked it into a spot on the shelf and wondered about it. Since then I have seen a few posts here and there from folks in NJ finding nice little paleozoic pieces on their side of the bay as well. This summer, I made it a mission to explore the Delaware beaches and see what I could find and how far north they went. I began at the cape and worked my way north, one beach to a trip. Cape Henlopen's beach is rather lacking in pebbles this season, so not much to find, but I know they turn up! I have spotted them here and there in the intervening years. The next few trips were Bowers Beach. Oh, yeah! Some are impressions of brachiopods and crinoids are so tiny in big pebbles that is just isn't worth it to take them home and wonder where on that pitted rock I found something recognizable. Others are very distinct chunks of coral replaced with chert, some with crystal quartz in the gaps between structural elements. Each time, I came home with a couple of fistfuls of nice little pieces, mostly about 1" across. The next stop was the beach in Battery Park, in New Castle. This is not a nice bathing beach. It is on a heavily-industrialized section of the Delaware River. The beach is littered with slag, brick, glass and bits of other man-made "rock." But, the black slag definitely allows the brown chert to stand out more. Bingo! The prettiest horn coral I've found yet, plus a few other nice goodies. All told, I came home with about as much as I usually find at Bowers, but cutting my travel time from over an hour to just 20 minutes. *Insert Happy Dance Here!* The last stop was a rare little stretch of river bank in Claymont, a mile or so from the northern border. The stretch was pretty narrow and short. There were plenty of pebbles, but not much chert. Nothing distinctly fossilized. Oh, yeah, and on the way BACK, I found, facing into the woods and hidden by the vegetation, a "No Trespassing" sign. Now they tell me. Ah, well, now I know it isn't worth the trouble anyway. The Delaware Geological Survey, as far as I can find, has no public record of fossils at the beach. They note the Cretaceous at the C&D Canal, the Miocene in a farm field that got bulldozed for a highway, Pleistocene silicified wood in the fields and streams just south of the canal, and plant impressions from the canal down to the southern border. The corals and other marine impressions in the chert are Paleozoic, possibly Devonian or Silurian, but no one seems quite sure. They were part of the ancient sea bed when the Cretaceous stuff at the canal was still alive and can be found in the pebbles there, too, occasionally. I find it really neat and kind of surreal to think about all those fossils that were ancient when my ancient sea shells were still alive.