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These are two restored great white shark teeth. One measures 2.95 inches and the other measures 3.4 inches.
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From the album: Mitchu Fossils
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From the album: Mitchu Fossils
Great quarry, undisclosed location, NC. No roots ever on the teeth I found except one. -
From the album: Mitchu Fossils
Just a hand full of GW's -
From the album: Mitchu Fossils
Biggest GW I have, 3" -
I had a good weekend on the river this past Saturday and Sunday. I did some fishing and scouting for new dig spots. I have yet to find my own place where 1. no one else knows/digs that I am networked with 2. that produces decent quality and OK quantity. Saturday evening that was checked off from my fossil hunting bucket list, though. I plugged down the river in my lil 14' jon boat, saw some shells atop a bank that looked familiar to the fossil pecten in edgecomb county and made a quick dash to the shore! I had quite the struggle among the brush and trees between myself and these barely visible shells - but I made it, grabbed a very nice C. madisonius with some little barnacles atop of it. As I'm climbing down I spot something embedded in the rock/hardened clay and got so excited I literally laughed out loud. MEGLADON TOOTH! -This I was not expecting, but welcomed! I pried it out, really neat color and sadly chipped away about a third - but still in good condition and a promising sign as I looked around and also found two beautiful little great whites almost pearly white! Such unique colored teeth for this part of eastern NC as normally my finds, like GMR, are darker grays and blacks and then you have the aurora teeth and hour east that these appeared more like in color but still different. I would love to know the minerals responsible for this coloration here. Anyhow, I returned with my Good digging partner, Rick, Sunday and we found a few more things that were alright. More to explore - more to come I'm sure!
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This tooth is by far the biggest great white in my collection at 3.08 inches. I was curious what the biggest in the world is. Someone on ebay told me they had one that was 3 3/8 inches but I think they were lying.
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Brand new to forum and shark tooth hunting. Need some veteran help.
jpj3338 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello all! I want to go shark hunting for the first time!! My gf and I are making a trip from charlotte to the charleston area for a weekend. Im originally from Chicago, so it is rare that I go to a beach let alone shark tooth hunt. Anyways, It would be a dream to find a great white tooth or megadolon. Sharks have always been my favorite animal (especially a great white). So the thought of finding a tooth is exciting. You probably get asked this a lot, but do you know of any specific places (that you are willing) to share to have a decent chance of finding a good tooth? This will just be a weekend trip and then I have to start my new job hours from the beach. So, I will not be depleting fossil locations. Just a fun weekend trip hoping to share some good memories. Thank you guys so much, Jeremy -
A very uncommon species at Lee Creek. From the Pleistocene James City Formation, great whites are always nice to find.
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Hello fellow fossil hunters, After one month, sorry for the delay, here it finally is: my trip report of the fossil hunting in Cape Town, South Africa! First off, I just wanna say this: before my trip to SA, I asked here whether it was possible to hunt there. Everyone said that SA had strict laws on fossil hunting, and that I would have no chance there. Obviously I was disappointed, yet also confused, because on Fossiel.NET (Dutch version of TFF), there were two locations with lots of info about them in SA, and they didn't say anything about the law. After that, on Instagram, I met a guy that lived in Cape Town, and his posts were those of fossils he had found there! So I sent him a message asking about the rules, and he said the following: fossil extraction/digging is forbidden, but if the fossils are found in loose sediment, you are allowed to pick them up. Which was great news, because this meant I could hunt at Milnerton! Now, to the report. As we arrived in the parking, we saw the big sandy beach stretching out. As we got onto it, we could barely see 20 meters in front of us. Then the fog cleared up slightly, giving us a better view of the beach. We then met a lady who was also hunting for sharkteeth, and she gave me some tips for searching. As we continued our walk on the beach, after about an hour of having found nothing except for a few modern seashells, we arrived at the lighthouse. We got up close to the lighthouse and noticed some people sitting there, with a towel in front of them. We went over to see what they were selling, and, of course, there were sharkteeth! Extinct giant whites (mako's) and great whites, many complete and in good condition. They also made necklaces out of the teeth that were less well preserved. So we bought 3 sharkteeth from them, and also got a small necklace for free, all that for only 120 ZAR (more or less 8 USD)! They were extremely nice with us, and gave us many more tips for finding fossils, as we had explained that we also love to find them personally. Thanks to their very helpful tips, we soon found some teeth too! And we also found some pieces of bone, very similar to those I find on the Zandmotor, my usual hunting spot in the Netherlands. Finally, towards the end, I even found a big whale vert! All in all it was an amazing day, and the weird weather made it a unique experience.
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A friend posted these pictures on FB of a successful hunt Brian and I had in the creek about 2005. Sadly my friend Brian has passed and those days are now cherished memories. Brian was the King of great whites and it was an honor to sling a shovel with him.
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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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I picked up this interesting Peruvian GW tooth. It looks like some minor damage, but upon closer inspection it appears to be part of its natural morphology. Looks like a transitional tooth, thoughts?
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OK, I finally took a camera with me on this one. For the past year, I have visited an area about an hour south of me that is a source for Great White teeth and other marine animal parts. But for the most part, GW teeth is the majority of what is found. Now the location is perched on a steep hillside about 7 miles inland of the Pacific Ocean. It was a deposit that had been cut through by a river and re-deposited in a different location, much like many of the sites along the east coast are now. However, the redeposition was done a very long time ago. It is found about 200 feet above the valley floor and goes up at an angle due to faulting (what else would you expect in California, the land of earthquakes?) The formation consists of what I can easily call cemented gravel (heavy emphasis on the cement part!) I only have a hand pick and a trench trowel (folding shovel) to somehow work my way through that "rock". It doesn't take long swinging a pick with one hand to wear you out. By the end of the day, My arm feels like limp spaghetti. Because this ground is so hard and worked by river action, finding a whole tooth with roots intact is something of a rarity. Mostly you will find shards of crown enamel or the teeth are so worn they have no serrations at all. I had worked a hole for a while only to figure out the actual deposit was about 12" below the floor of my pit. Did I mention the deposit goes up at an angle? Missed it!!!! OH MAN! I had to backtrack removing my tailing pile and having to re dig the hole to a lower level. Did I mention the humidity was about 105%? I was completely drenched in sweat. Nobody said fossil hunting was easy work!!!! The first photos are the small hole I had to dig to establish the fossil layer once the tailings were removed. Believe me that ground is much harder than it looks. Guess I can skip the gym this week! Last photo is the day's tally. All Great Whites except for a small Cow Shark tooth. The top tooth on the left is 2 1/8" there is a small tooth in matrix at the bottom (note there is no root). I was lucky enough to get three with whole roots this trip. Thank you for putting up with my rabbling. Doren/ caldigger
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Just started with fossil collecting....just visited castle Hayne quarry where I found a ton of sharks teeth. I have been seeing a lot about green mill run in Greenville . Just wondering if anyone has been there lately and if is still a good spot to hunt?
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I decided to check out a couple of Yorktown Formation outcrops along a river this weekend to see what damage the recent flood from Hurricane Matthew has done. These outcrops are nearly vertical walls with layers of fossil shells. One of the outcrops was rejuvenated by the floods and the other completely buried. This first photo shows the mudline in the trees where the flood waters reached. The second and third show the slumping of the outcrop that completely buried the fossils.
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The Sunday of the weekend before Hurricane Mathew came a calling, a friend and I decided to spend the day fishing on the Neuse River in eastern North Carolina. WE had a pretty good day fishing, caught lots of small puppy drum and stripers. No keepers but fun to catch. About halfway through the day we left the creek we were in and headed back into the main river. Heading from the Cherry Point area heading over towards New Bern. A mile or so up we saw fish busting all over the surface on the Flanners Beach side of the river but not quite that far. We motored towards them and for an hour or so caught stripers on almost every cast. As we were leaving we noticed there was a small cliff eroding out and decided to check it out. We beached and found small gravel on the beach in a strip about 40 or so yards in front of the eroding cliff face. Now, I have been on this river my whole life, but have never noticed this area before. We started finding bivalves almost immediately. We also found some small worn shark teeth, a nice burfish mouth plate and some possible small bone material. I am trying to pinpoint down the age of this exposure. There is Pleistocene Flanner Beach Formation and James City Formation nearby. James City is earlier. There are also Pliocene deposits. Possibly Yorktown, Chowan River or Duplin. The reason I am adding all of these is because of the bivalve ID's if I have them right. So any help is much appreciated. Please correct any incorrect ID I have as I am still learning how to properly ID Molluscs. The first is a bivalve that according to my reference is known from the Pliocene Duplin Formation; Glycymeris subovata Next an oyster Myrakeena sculpturata, from the Chowan River Formation (Pliocene) by my reference.
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Found at Greens Mill Run, NC August 2016. Tooth was not found with many other fossils but was in a gravel bed along the bank. Serrations are present but worn.
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Hey everyone! I haven't posted on the forum for quite a while, but here is my latest trip to a river/creek site somewhere in NC. The video pretty much tells the site for its self. Not any Megalodon teeth this time, but maybe next time! Thank you for watching .
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This great white shark tooth was recovered eroding out of the bank of a creek that exposes the Cypresshead Formation.
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From the album: TEETH & JAWS
Occasionally, teeth of the two sharks, Carcharocles megalodon and Carcharodon carcharias, may be confused for one another. Ususally, this is a problem with a worn or otherwise damaged tooth . . . especially where the teeth of the two sharks may be found together, as in Florida's Peace River (C. carcharias teeth are uncommon in the Peace River). Megalodon and the great white shark now are generally believed to be not closely related. (This image is best viewed by clicking on the button on the upper right of this page => "other sizes" => "large".)© Harry Pristis 2015
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GMR Great White (Carcharodon Carcharias) Tooth Found April 16 2016
AshHendrick posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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 -
GMR Great White (Carcharodon Carcharias) Tooth Finds
AshHendrick posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: GMR Finds
Great White's (Carcharodon Carcharias) found in Greenville NC November of 2015. BEST finds so far for me!! Taxonomy: Order: Lamniformes - Family: Lamnidae - Genus: Carcharodon - Species: Carcharias -
Hello everyone! I went out scouting new sites today along the Ashley River in North Charleston SC, and I came across this particularly rich gravel deposit. I suspect, based on the condition and multiple ages present, that this material is the result of dredging done some time ago. Amongst the bones and shells I managed to find several nice sharks teeth from Carcharodon carcharias (great white), Carcharocles angustidens (Oligocene-early Miocene megalodon ancestor), as well as some larger fragments of megalodon teeth. Also of interest were some well-preserved shark vertebrae, a large rostral tooth from a sawfish (pristis sp.), a small delphinoid tooth, and an unidentified mammal rib bone showing predation marks from a serrate-toothed shark. Certainly one of the more productive days I've had in a while - I already can't wait for my next trip out there! Best regards, SOSC Here are the nicer finds all together - These are the complete C. angustidens teeth - Complete great whites..the smaller two are in great shape -
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From the album: Joy's Fossil Collection
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