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Hello, my friends, and a jolly warm welcome to one and all. Many moons ago, my friend, the exceedingly kind and generous Brett @Elmo sent me nearly 6 lbs of micromatrix from the Purse State Park in Maryland, USA. The tiny fossils found in this gravel are from the Piscataway Member of the Aquia Formation which is Late Palaeocene in age and about 60 million years old, give or take. I have been trying to sort through a little every day and am about two-thirds of the way through and have found lots and lots of goodies. Now, this is well out of my comfort zone as there is not a brachiopod to be seen, but lots of teethies from sharks, rays, skates, and bony fish. I have no idea what I am doing at all, and so Brett, who is also seeking some IDs, and I decided it might be useful and fun to start a thread to show off our finds, hopefully get some help with identification, encourage others to post their own finds and have a fun time, really. I don't have any Palaeocene material at all, except a couple of larger sharks' teeth from this location. So, please feel free to comment, just watch and enjoy or tell me off for my obviously stupid attempts at ID. I'll start this off with a really beautiful tooth that I think might be Delpitoscyllium africanum. On second thoughts, perhaps Ginglymostoma cf. subafricanum is a better fit? Because of the multiple side cusps.
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Shark Cantioscyllium decipiens Eagle Ford Formation
JamieLynn posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Sharks and Rays
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
My first one! Found surface hunting, so I'm lucky I saw it.- 3 comments
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First tooth in question is from the Eocene Bashi Formation, Mississippi. Both Nebrius and Ginglymostoma are described in the formation. With this tooth, I think it’s Ginglymostoma but I figured it was better to post it and get some additional opinions. It’s around 5-6mm.
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I am getting out to hunt about twice a week. I have interesting places to look. It turned out that @PODIGGER and I chose the same launch point, and returned at the exact same time. It was hectic stripping the kayaks , storing the gear for the drive home in time for dinner. We did have a few minutes to exchange pleasantries and discuss finds. Here are most of mine sorted for their photo. I am more interested in the fossils you don't recognize than those you do. This for example is a druzy cave inside a silicified banged up oyster. I had not seen a fragment of a turtle Nuchal bone in months, but 1 whole and 2 fragments showed up in my sieve yesterday. I will use the post that @Harry Pristis put in this thread to attempt pontificating of mine. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/106885-turtle-nuchal-bone/ @fossilnut asked me to keep and eye open for turtle material. I did find a quality tooth from a very old horse. Horse grinds down its teeth over a lifetime and many die of starvation. That's a Harlan's caniniform on the right. It was mostly orange coming into the sunlight. I have been very lucky recently finding sloth teeth once a month. It was my "find" of the day, before... The nurse shark in slightly less than 9 mm. At that size it will easily fall through the mesh on a quarter inch screen. Once I discovered that there small treasures dropping out of my screen, I switched tactics for about 2 hours (see the collection of tiny teeth in the photo above). I stopped shaking the screen to clear mud/debris, I took much longer searching the screen for tiny teeth. There is a tradeoff here. I really like finding small treasures, mainly because it is unusual for me to find them (before they slip thru the holes). However, it takes a Lot longer to search for them , so that I do not process as many screen in a hunting day. No way to avoid it. and thus finding fewer of the WOW finds (Megs and Sloth Teeth) Let me ask a member who has some focus on tiny shark teeth on how he handles it. @digit All in all, a great day out hunting on the River.
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
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From the album: Gainesville Florida Microscopic Miocene
A small, but distinctive tooth of the Nurse Shark.-
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This tooth was found in the basal sands of the Belgrade Quarry. An extremely nice example of this rather rare species for this formation.
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