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I wanted some coral for display purposes so I decided to see if I’d have any luck finding some at Flag Ponds today. I wasn’t expecting much of anything because of hitting it right after the weekend. I was pleasantly surprised with the results of my outing. I not only found plenty of coral I found my first porpoise tooth!!! I was also able to come back with a few nice shark teeth, ray plates, a croc tooth, and plenty of bone frags.
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I made it out to Purse yesterday to get some matrix for another member in need. I started out just a little later than I like due to some pretty heavy traffic. A simple 1 1/2 hour trip ended up being 2 1/2 hours. Once I made it to the beach I found a very low tide and got the feeling that luck was on my side. I went straight to gathering matrix for the member in need and loaded up on a bunch extra for some of my coworkers to enjoy. I decided to change things up from my normal day of hours of sifting and decided to run the matrix and extra equipment back to the truck and just spend the day with my backpack with a few essentials in it. When I returned to the beach I went right and just started looking along the water line. There were a few fossils here and there, but I wasn’t getting the pace that I wanted. I decided to start looking through the mounds of rock that was placed on the beach from the waves. I attacked the mounds for several hours and it ended up my best day out yet. I found plenty of sharks teeth and ray plates, about a dozen reptile teeth, a shark vert, and 2 Turritella molds together in matrix. It was the first shark vert I’ve ever found and first fossils that I’ve found in rock so it was pretty exciting for me!
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I made it back to Purse today, I might be addicted to that place. I had a late start collecting due to a high tide. It was only a couple feet of shore and it took a couple hours to pick up enough room to do my thing. Even with the delay it turned out to be a satisfying day for me.
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Psittacosaur9's Cabinet Renovation Fossil Identification - Mesozoic and Cenozoic Animals Thread
Psittacosaur9 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, and I hope you've all had a good day. I started to put my display cabinet together today, and after an exhausting day of work, I'm only half done and I haven't even started on the bookshelf! Yay! Sarcasm aside, I've got some more fossils I would like identified, as I am creating labels for my displays. Just as before, I would prefer the most specific identification possible - species would be preferable, but I would rather a genus or clade name over an invalid species name. Location would be helpful too. Again, if any of you want them, I can take more photos tomorrow. Specimen 1: Actinopterygii This specimen I purchased at a museum, which simply labelled it as 'fish fossil'. While I do not know the location, I suspected it was from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, as many commercially available Actinopterygii fossils come from that site. At first, I thought the specimen was Knightia, as that fish seems to be one of the more common from the Green River Formation, and the only common one of the same size and rough shape. However, after recently observing a slab of Knightia at a museum, I began to doubt my initial identification, as the Knightia in the museum looked more bloated than my specimen. Is it a Knightia, or something else? Specimen 2: Ammonite I apologise for the rather shoddy attempt at editing out the supplier's logo. As you can see, I purchased this ammonite in a small plastic case at a museum, and cannot take a photograph of it from all angles. However, the back of the box (or at least what survives of it) says that the ammonite is Jurassic of age and comes from Madagascar (thinking about it, the supplier probably had to stick the ammonite to the case in order to get it through customs). Therefore, after comparing it to other ammonites from the same location, I believe it is most likely a Phylloceras specimen, as those ammonites lived in the correct place at the correct time, and had the same shaped, relatively smooth shell. Do you all agree with this conclusion? Specimen 3: Gastropod Another specimen I purchased from a museum with no knowledge of its original location or age. Unfortunately, I know very little about Gastropods, so I do not know how to identify it. Do any of you recognise at least what group it came from, or even tell its species, time period or location? Specimen 4: Ray tooth I received this tooth as a gift in a set of various teeth from Chondrichthyes. The gift set identified the ray tooth as Jurassic in age, however gave no further information on the specimen. To add to the confusion, all of the fossil ray teeth I have found available to purchase online come from Myliobatis, a genus which only evolved in the Cenozoic. While I am pretty sure it is Myliobatis and the gift set's information was simply inaccurate, I would like confirmation that this conclusion is accurate. Also, I do know that there is only half of a tooth; it broke a while ago and I no longer have the second half. Thank you for all of your help! Next up will be a couple of Triassic plant fossils, and following that will be some fossils I am concerned are fake. Hope you all have a good night!
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Hi TFF Please can you help, I have been looking at some micro fossils from Lee Creek, Miocene Pungo River Formation. I tried to do some IDs but I am having a hard time navigating this tiny collection. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated. cheers Bobby
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I decided to do a little day trip to Purse state park today. This is the second time I’ve gone there and I took my sifters with me. I managed to find 80 sharks teeth, 200 ray plates, and a few miscellaneous fragments. I was hoping to join the 3” club with a tooth, but I fell way short on that dream. I do believe I joined the 3mm club with one of the ray plates though.
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After hurricane Ian hit last year, I made a trip report from a location that doesn't offer many perfect teeth: I have been back there probably 12+ times since then, but have never come close to that many finds...until now. This is one pass of the creek, but split into two trips due to getting rained out halfway through the first day. Also, I only surface hunt, leaving lots for all of the sifters to find. My first nurse shark tooth! At 5 mm, I'm lucky to have found it surface hunting: Broken arrowhead, but I rarely find these: Broken C. catticus. Such a shame since they are uncommon here: I think these are all odontocete teeth (maybe not the first one): Worn horse tooth and a frag: Verts and hypural bones, etc. One is 3 or 4 verts fused together! Ray mouthplate bits: Other miscellaneous: Better picture of the sawfish rostral tooth(?): Otodus and suspected Otodus frags: And did you see it in the mix? I finally got a complete angy here, although it is missing the serration on the tip. Still, this is as good as they come at this location: Other "larger" teeth (sand tigers, hastalis, great whites, Isurus): Close-up of one of the great whites, since I don't find many anywhere in Summerville, and the ones I do find are usually missing the root: Lots of smalls: I don't keep many bones, but here are a few odd pieces, a worn cetacean vert, turtle, and a couple shells: No 4+ inch angy this trip, but some things I've never found and some that are in good condition for this spot. My husband did tell me before I left to not even bother coming home if I didn't find a cowshark tooth. But, who are we kidding...we all know who is in charge. Thanks for reading!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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I am doing some research on some of my newer interesting finds and am struggling a bit on this ray mouth plate: I have a local book that lists it as a Pleistocene cownose ray (Rhinoptera sp.), but in doing literature searches, I cannot find any pictures that have the same design for the "adjoining teeth" (I know that specimens this complete are hard to find). I understand that there are multiple species of Rhinoptera and that it is difficult to tell them apart. I am also finding conflicting information on when the Rhinoptera genus came about (so far, I have found Oligocene, Miocene and Pleistocene). I found this in a creek that is heavily Oligocene but where I have found a layer of Miocene fossils, which I believe (if I understand what I have read) is actually a Pleistocene lag deposit. Can anyone clarify if this can actually be IDed down to the genus (and if Rhinoptera is correct)? Thank you...I have spent the last two days just trying to gather enough information for two fossils for the Collection Reference Museum.
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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From the album: Aurora North Carolina Micro Matrix Fossils
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