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A very uncommon species at Lee Creek. From the Pleistocene James City Formation, great whites are always nice to find.
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A very nice example of a Lee Creek Squatina. An uncommon tooth.
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This rare Lee Creek Megachasma was confirmed as a juvenile Megachasma tooth by Dr. Kenshu Shimada. One of the worlds foremost experts on Megachasma. One of the rarest of the Lee Creek teeth. It was a very unexpected find.
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My first and to date only Lee Creek Cookiecutter tooth. A rare species from Lee Creek.
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This small (6mm long) Hemipristis is slightly pathological. Hemi patho's are not uncommon at Lee Creek.
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This tiny sevengill shark tooth is the smallest I have ever found. At 8mm as a lower tooth it must have been a juvenile or even new born shark.
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A very nice whale shark tooth from Lee Creek.
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Carcharhinus macloti, the Hardnose shark is one of the most common small Carcharhinus species at Lee Creek from the Pungo River.
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Okay I have 2 small Carcharhinus teeth from Lee Creek here. The first I am sure is Carcharhinus macloti. The shoulders have multiple cusplets and the blade is non-serrated. On the labial side of the tooth the enamel stops at the root. The second tooth has multiple cusplets on the shoulders and on the labial side the enamel is rolled up on the root, as in falciformis. However falciformis has a serrated main blade, and the blade on this tooth is also non-serrate. Is this also C. macloti, with "extra" enamel? Or possibly a juvenile C. falciformis with undeveloped serrations?
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A very rare and nice, small megalodon symphyseal tooth. A tooth position that was not in all megs.
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This is a small ?posterior meg tooth. Found in spoil piles from the Lee Creek Mine.
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Self Collected at the Lee Creek Mine. This hemi lower symphyseal has great coloration.
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Nice little symphyseal tooth.
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Nice little C. catticus collected from the Lee Creek Spoil Piles. An uncommon find.
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Lee Creek Cetorhinus (Basking Shark) teeth are extremely rare. While the Oligocene specimens and some Miocene locations have been assigned to C. parvus and the later (Pliocene-extant) have been assigned to C. maximus; the Lee Creek teeth have not been assigned to species level. The west coast species from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebeds have been assigned as a new species C. huddlestoni (Welton, 2014); and is a very common tooth there.
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Self Collected from spoil piles from the Lee Creek Mine.
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Self Collected in the Lee Creek Mine
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Self Collected from the Lee Creek Mine
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Self Collected in the Lee Creel Mine during my very first trip into it.
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Ok, I found this tooth in the Lee Creek mine in 2007. Over the years I have gone back and forth as to the species of mako; hastalis, oxyrhincus, desori. So now I am asking for your opinion. I don't think I have posted this tooth on here before so I hope you all enjoy, I think it's a beauty. I would like to post this one on the collections area, but I want to be much more sure about a positive species before I do so. It is just ovewr 2" ( about 2 1/8) and has great color.
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Hi all, This is my first attempt at posting photos, hope it works. Anyway, I have a few Lee Creek vertebrate fossils that I'd like some help identifying. I got them a couple of years ago on Ebay as part of a group of miscellaneous Lee Creek vertebrate stuff- various shark teeth, some bony fish remains, and several small cetacean teeth and bones. Here's what I've been able to figure out: 1. Unknown bone. Not sure if this is fish or mammal. I am hoping the distinctive "pebbly" surface on one side is diagnostic, otherwise it is destined to remain as "chunkosaur" (or whatever the mammalian equivalent of "chunkosaur" is.) 2. I am pretty sure this is a bird bone, but is anyone willing to hazard a more specific guess (even to the family level)? I am also an avid birder, so having an ID'd bird fossil would be a cool way to unite the two hobbies. 3. Unknown tooth. It doesn't seem to be shark, but I don't know what it is. There is no trace of serrations along the edge. Thanks for any help you can give!
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I recently put together a pair of gemjars containing matching samples of teeth from Lee Creek. I'd like to be able to send a list of the contents to the friends I put them together for. I think the middle tooth (#6) in each jar is from a tiger shark, and I know that #10 is a ray of some sort, and #8 and 9 are skate teeth, but I don't know the rest. I'd appreciate it if one (or more) of the many folks here who knows the fauna could identify the lot. Here's the set: Thanks for looking!
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I think that this one is Isurus retroflexus, the long-finned mako. Do you agree? I can't find a ringer for this one on-line.
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This is one of the smallest shark teeth I've ever found. It comes from the matrix sent to me by sixgill pete. Can anyone tell me which species it is? Thanks.
