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Gmr never disappointing! My favorite place by far! Never a time i come here and go home skunked. Just have to know when and where to look. Be unconventional in the way you hunt and many treasures will come.
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Hey Guys! So I know there is a Fossil hunting trip this Sunday coming up in GMR North Carolina. Is anyone on here close enough to there to let me know how high the creek is right now?? I know there has been tons of rain and I was just wondering if the water might go down by this weekend..? Thanks in advance! HollyJo
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Found November 26 2015 at GreensMill Run.
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GMR Great White (Carcharodon Carcharias) Tooth Found April 16 2016
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From the album: GMR Finds
Conservation Status: Vunerable Scientific Classification: Species: Carcharodon Carcharias Formation: Yorktown Period: Miocene to Recent Found: April 16, 2016 at Green Mill Run in Greenville, NC -
The kids are on Spring Break this week and my 5 year old son had been telling me for weeks that on his spring break he wanted to hunt for shark teeth. My wife and I decided he was old enough to graduate from the spoil piles at Aurora to GMR in Greenville. Those that have hunted GMR know that the creek is littered with trash and tons of broken glass. We wanted to be sure that he was old enough to understand the dangers and be careful enough not to get hurt. We loaded up and took the drive on what turned out to be a beautiful day. We ended up sifting for about 2 1/2 hours and the kids had a blast! I have had very hit or miss days over the years in the creek, but I think I found today that the key is to take sets of younger better eyes to do the looking. I did the shovel work while they did the sifting and you should have heard the yells of joy when he found his first unbroken mako, a very nice lower. My daughter also made a very nice discovery finding a tooth in perfect condition with both cusps intact, something I had not found in the creek in six years of hunting. My son ended up proclaiming it the "greatest day" . He found a new passion for belemnites, and ended up trading all his his teeth except the mako to his sister for her belemnites. Here are a couple of the kids favorites from the day.
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From the album: GMR Finds
Conservation Status: Extinct Scientific Classification: Family: Sclerorhynchidae Genus: Ischyrhiza Species: Mira Common Name: Saw Fish Fossil Period: Cretaceous Formation: Yorktown (within Greenville, NC) Formation Period: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. Found: November of 2015 at GMR in Greenville, NC -
GMR - Tiger Shark Teeth (Galeocerdo cuvieri)
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From the album: GMR Finds
Conservation Status: Near Threatened Scientific Classification: Family: Carcharhinidae Genus: Galeocerdo Species: cuvier Common Name: Tiger Shark Formation: Yorktown (within Greenville, NC) Period: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. Found: November of 2015 at GMR in Greenville, NC -
From the album: GMR Finds
Photo one, side angled top view. Neat little modern turtle skull I found in GMR. Someone accidentally set a box on top of it and crushed it the day after I brought it home. So, I painstakingly glued it piece by piece back together. I've not yet ID'd the species of turtle. -
From the album: GMR Finds
Conservation Status: Extinct Scientific Classification: Family: Belemnitellidae Genus: Belemnite/ Belemnitella Species: Belemnitella Common Name: Belemnite Fossil Period: Late Cretaceous Formation: Yorktown (within Greenville, NC) Formation Period: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. Found: Frequently at Green Mill Run in Greenville, NC -
I would greatly appreciate any help/direction on figuring out what (if anything) these two objects may be and if they are similar in origin. I was thinking the root of a tooth, but really haven't had much luck in my research but will admit I've not gone far outside of googling as much as I could think of for the region where I found these to see if I can find anything similar that was IDd. I copied the main concerns from FAQs on posting here, so hopefully I was able to provide enough detail for some direction. I can try to get better pictures with closer views if you think it will help, I was anxious and shot these with my iPhone as soon as I got home. 1- LOCATION Greenville, NC Greensmill Run. (GMR) 2- GEOLOGY/Formation Generally this location is part of the york town formation, Miocene-Pliocene-cretaceous 4- ASSEMBLAGE Shark teeth, belemnites, bopods, mouthplates from singrays/skates, whale bone. 5- DISCOVERY I went to a new part of the stream today, it was much higher upstream than I usually venture, with rapid running water. I was walking on what felt like a giant rock for about 20 yards then sand with loose gravel came up so I plopped my stuff and this is one of the finds with lots of shark teeth. 6- CHARACTERISTICS I thought it was an only chipped rock at first but a second look and I thought it was really close to this other item I had found that was much smaller (on the right in the photo) I was thinking maybe some sort of tooth root? Maybe it/they are just rocks? There was really nothing else similar in shape or color in the area today and generally when I dig in other spots along the GMR. The brown color, texture similar to and density being much lighter than a rock for both objects leads me to wonder what this may be?
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Hey everyone, I was hoping that I could get some input as to what species this could be from. My personal opinion is saw fish rostral tooth but it always helps to get a second opinion. I found it in the Greens Mill Run in Greenville, NC. Thanks for taking a look!
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My seven year old twisted my arm into a trip to GMR to hunt for fossils. We had a great day hunting together while dodging the showers that cooled us off. We had a decent day with the junior hunter finding lots of the typical worn, broken teeth that made her happy. She was especially enthralled with the amount of bone material we kept digging up. I didn't realize how enthralled until I went to pick up our knapsack and realized it weighed a lot more than it did when we started the day. Our best finds were three shamer GWs, many small squalis, two items that I think are scutes, a strange bone, and what looks to be a modern tooth(?). I would appreciate any corrections or help with ids or correcting my misidentifications.
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I posted some finds from my weekend trip to Green Mill Run with my daughter in the Hunting Trips section and was told that one of our mystery find was a horse hoof cast. As anyone who has hunted GMR knows it is hard to determine ages due to the mixing and reworking of several layers. We tried to research this item and found very little info. I was hoping some of the experts on here could give me some more info on this find or point me to a reference with more information. My daughter is really intrigued with her find and we are trying to find out anything at all about it. Thanks for any help anyone can provide! Brad
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I was looking through some material I brought home from GMR and found this tiny bone and vert. Just wondering if anyone can possibly I.D. them. Thanks for looking!
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Anyone have a status of the water level at GMR today??
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Found this in gmr which has Cretaceous to Pleistocene fossils. Looks like an incomplete periotic ear bone but wanted to confirm:
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I was talking with people today and we started talking about the Tar river and GMR. They were advising me to stay out of the Tar and GMR due to such a poor water quality. Is this true? If so does anyone know where I can find more information?
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My friend Andy E. found this fossil about a week ago in Green Mill Run Creek in Greenville NC. The creek produces fossils from the late Cretaceous through the Pliocene. It is a part of the upper Yorktown formation. He asked me to post these pictures on this website in hopes that someone might have an idea as to what this fossil may have once been. We are all stumped, any help or hints would be greatly appreciated. I can probably get him to send more pictures if these are inadequate for identification. Thanks
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Recently, I went with my dad on a typical GMR trip. The creek was really high and the current was very strong. I remember trying to find the shovels multiple times due to the current that was stripping them from the gravel. We did pretty well considering we could only stay in one spot. I found my first whale ear bone!, and I did well with the Tiger shark teeth!
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This item was found at GMR in Greenville, NC Pieces seem to have broke off in layers as you can see in the pictures. Any help in identifying what this might be would be appreciated.
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Hello everyone! I'm glad to have the forum back online! It was a very rough time going through fossil withdrawal. I managed to pass some of the time looking through my micro material from Aurora and GMR. Now I'd like some help ID'ing a few items. Please take a look and let me know your thoughts. As always thanks in advance for your feed back. 1. GMR Symphyseal? 2. Lee Creek ? 3. Lee Creek Squalus cf acanthias? 4. Lee Creek Basking Shark?
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Like many people here in eastern NC my first full fledged exposures to fossils was at the Aurora Fossil museum. Growing up here, I had seen and found my share of smaller sharks teeth and "petrified" clams as we called them, but never thought much about it. Never had anyone able to expose me to the world of fossils.(Plus, I was much more interested in baseball ..... then girls.) After I had grandkids a friend said, hey you should take them to the fossil museum in Aurora. So I did and the rest is, as we say, history. I was amazed at the teeth and everything else that was on display there. The first day in the piles there my grandson Nick(who I hunt with regularly and the one who coined me sixgill pete) found a 2 plus inch meg and a 2 plus inch mako. We were hooked. We went back to those piles tirelessly, as often as we could. We found huge numbers of mako's and tiger's and some megs and some cow sharks. Everything the piles had to offer. Then I got into the mine, wow, I found some amazing things in there, my favorite being the cow shark teeth. But there had to be more, so I found GMR and then all the MM quarries here in the eastern part of NC. Did research and found out about the beaches and rivers and much more. Then I discovered micro's and as many of you know, they are among my favorites. Beautiful little things the eye can barely see, but amazing and in many cases some of the rarest teeth. I also discovered shells, and echinoids. Then came The Fossil forum. Without a doubt, the finest fossil site on the web, great people and a plethora of USEFULL information. And the knowledge here is 5 star A+. I have learned so much and continue to learn everyday I am able to log in. I recently was able to get my first trilobite from fantastic forum member xonenine. Here in NC, there is no where to find them. My collection has come along way since its humble beginnings. So here are a few highlight's of it, some of my favorite pieces. Don a.k.a. sixgill pete my first big meg, 4 3/8" from GMR a 2 1/8 lower hastalis from Lee Creek two upper hastalis 2 1/8 and 2 3/8 from Lee Creek my two favorite rics a beautiful gun metal blue perfect 2 1/16 and a very rare parasymphyseal, both found on the same day at the Onslow Martin Marietta Quarry From GMR a very nice about 1 1/4 Great White in matrix Also from GMR a 2 1/2 inch great white
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I decided to hit the creek today. My dad and I had some good finds. There weren't any 2" mako's or great whites, just the regular warn and Broken GMR teeth. It was still nice to get out there and it was a really nice day. I had a really nice Modern Teiger Shark (fossilized of course). This is my biggest one yet.
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Well this was my 5th time going to GMR and GMR has never been to good to me. Everytime I went i would find broken, worn, and just terrible teeth. This time was just pure Awesome! I woke up at 7 sharp and my mom was on the computer looking at the forcast......NOT GOOD. But eventually we left and it cleared up! As we arrived we checked 5th street and wow....Not good it was deep! then we drove over to 10th street and it was still bad. Mom was afraid of the water and the trash on the bank so she decided to sit in the car I put on my leg waders and jumped in! It was up to my thighs and was not a bad temperture. i Build a make-shift sifter stand in the water out of cement blocks and bricks in the stream because I did not have pool noodles on my sifter. I was excited and put my first shovel in my screen and saw the usual gmr broken goblins and belemites. After a couple of screens later i found a nice porbeagle shark tooth, then after an hour of nothing good at all i found a mosasaur tooth (i think). Then about 30 minutes later i scored my first great white shark tooth ever! When i was digging i saw a huge tooth on the side of my shovel and it was so close to falling off! luckily I put the shovel full of gravel in my sifter and yanked it out. Wow it was a complete, all serations intact, tip intact, and a full root. The root is choclate brown, And the blade is blue with some tan stained into it. what a day. Thanks gmr!
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