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So I tried something different today and followed a slough that feeds the Myakka River. Slough in FL usually means a creek that doesn't flow all year, and now that it is the dry season you can walk the bottom of dry river beds. I'm trying to put some of my limited understanding of river hydro and fossil movement into practice. Commonly you are told to search the curves, look under fallen trees, between rocks and search were the water flow becomes slower. I've only had luck with velocity transition areas (narrow to wide). Another surprise is the depth of fossil deposits in a slough, 8-9" under sand but I think this may make sense if you realize that during flood season the creek bed is furiously moving material but as it drys, more & more sediment layers cover the (desirable) fossil material. And the last surprise for me has been "caves" or "tunnels", in two separate locations there is a ground opening that obviously goes down stream but neither appeared to have an exit. I haven't been brave enough to try to explore these "caves" yet as they are pretty small and I imagine they may have some summer inhabitants that I'd rather not meet in a confined space (but the thoughts of a potential fossil bonanza is really tempting). No real treasure discovered, other than the un identified tooth (posted to the ID page) and a non fossilized rabbit jaw bone. Calvin
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This was my first trip to the Potomac in a month, hard to believe it had been that long. What an incredible day on the Potomac it was! My wife had never found a Megalodon tooth before...today she found three! I too got into the action and found my biggest ever, the crazy thing was that they were all found in an area the size of our family room. We also found some large vertebrae, I dug two up while sifting and my wife found one at the water's edge...that one of was identified as coming from the tail section of a whale. There was a tour going beyond the ropes and the leader stopped long enough to provide an identification. Even though we had a banner day on the beach, I was jealous of all the orange vests heading past the ropes to the off limits areas...the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, eh? I sifted most of the day, I was lucky enough to find a couple of dolphin teeth for my efforts. I also found what is obviously a crab claw, I just don't know if I is a fossil or not...please weigh in. It is hard as a rock but I just don't have the experience enough to tell. Total haul: Megs a little closer. Dolphin teeth. The crab claw...please weigh in on whether it is an actual fossil or not. The vertebrae:
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I'm not sure what type of tooth this is, I found it in Venice, Florida. I've been thinking that it is a mako shark or extinct mako shark tooth, not exactly sure though
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Took all of my best of the last three years and laid them out last night. Thought I would share.
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Cigar tube was just the right size for the mornings finds. Contains 112 teeth and pieces. Post Oak creek, three hours of finding and explaining to "others" how to find. Nice place to do the booty scoot, you sure find some tiny stuff. Screening gets the bigger stuff but allows the tiny stuff to filter through. Contains: Ptychodus whipplei, Cretolamna Appendiculata, Scapanorhynchus Texanus, Squalicorax Kaupi. It will wind up going as a gift. I'll get back with some other recent finds from around my part of local Texas. Jess B.
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Hello once again! Well, March Break has finally begun, so my daughter Viola and I decided to spend some time sorting through the Sharktooth Hill micromatrix that Ken (@digit) sent me as part of the "rolling auction" lot that I won last month. Here are some pictures of a few of the finds so far... Ray teeth? - different from the usual plates that I've seen before Cow shark (Notorynchus sp.)? Dogshark (Squalus sp.)? Marine mammal teeth? Any ideas? Cute little shark teeth in matrix - any ideas re: their identity? ??? ??? I'll post pictures of more items on another day, when my eyes have stopped burning Thanks in advance for your help! Monica
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs - 3/7/17
Here's an assortment for shark teeth including a snaggletooth (Hemi.) and requiem sharks (related to modern day bull sharks). It wasn't a great day for finding teeth because there were no tides and most of the old stuff was picked over, but I had fun. -
Had a great day on the river. Wind was freezing but good thing it was sunny. The tide was low and I came out with a ton of teeth. Found a good sized otodus tooth but too bad the shark had to eat. Still a great tooth though for the area. Thanks for looking!
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I had to attend a work event in Baltimore on Friday morning so I used that as an excuse to check out Brownies Beach in the afternoon. I arrived at noon and got dressed and quickly headed down to the beach...I was pretty shocked at how low the water was, the north winds really pushed it out. I set out to start exploring and realized two things: 1. I didn't need my waders and 2. I was way overdressed...despite the cool temperatures and some sporadic snow showers, I was hot! Anyway, I worked the beach as far as I could, finding some teeth and vertebras sporadically along the way, I found the Mako right before I turned around. I started back and ran into another tooth hunter, after chatting for a few minutes I found out it was WAHAMA90! The two of us hunted together the rest of the time there, it was quite enjoyable to have someone to chat with and to learn how he approaches the beach. True to form, he found a cow shark tooth there...I swear that he is the king of cow shark teeth! I really enjoyed the area and the company, I'll definitely be back! Couple of beach shots, extremely low tide! One of my first teeth. Mako as I found it. Total haul. The Mako was just shy of 2 inches. This vertebrae was pretty interesting to me, the first one that I have found that was flat in shape.
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Hello! My name is Madison and I'm currently attending the University of Florida working on a zoology degree. I've recently (within the last year) taken up an interest in fossils and I look forward to hunting for more! Really all I have so far is about 200 shark teeth and some stingray teeth that I've found on the beaches of south eastern Florida and on creek beds in Gainesville, Florida (most are from here). If anyone has any tips for a true newbie who'd be able to travel around Florida for fossils, please let me know!:) Thanks!
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Had a decent day at the cliffs. Found the usual stuff but I'm curious to see if anyone can ID what I think is some sort of whale/porpoise tooth? To sum up the finds, I think I found more jelly fish than shark teeth... hopefully the bay won't be loaded with them this summer! I also came upon a good sized catfish stuck in about 3 or 4 inches of water. I ended up carrying into deeper water so I hope it made it out ok. Thanks for any info on the tooth also. Conor
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I had the chance to hunt a few different places the past two days. Yesterday morning I went to Brownies Beach on the way to work. Then I headed to Virginia to pick up a $15 pair of chest waders from Craigslist. From there I headed to Purse State Park. I found a bunch of interesting things between the two spots. I averaged over 100 teeth per hour at Purse, and 95% of them were from the beach. I didn't have time to search the water for more than the quick walk back.
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I recently acquired some bulk samples of shark teeth from Morocco. Quite a lot of them appear to be Sand Tigers or Sand sharks (Odontaspididae). I'm working on collecting references to ID these teeth before assembling tooth sets. Since teeth from Morocco are so common, I thought this would be a useful resource for others. I'm just starting out and this reference is a good place to start: ARAMBOURG, C. (1952) Les vertébrés fossiles des gisements de phosphates (Maroc-Algérie-Tunisie). Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc, 92: 1–372, 62 fig., 44 pl Although it is in French and I believe a lot of the taxonomy has probably progressed from this time. Is there already a post on this topic? If not I would sure appreciate contributions of references for shark teeth for this locality. There may also be references from other localities that are relevant as they deal with species found in the Moroccan deposits. After some time we could organise references into something that makes sense taxonomically and if there is a demand for it maybe pin it. Thanks everyone!
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I made a quick trip to the Brownies Beach yesterday to catch the falling tide. It was a little colder than forecasted, and the waves were higher than normal. Everything was going fine until the cliffs came down. There was a loud roaring noise and I looked up just in time to see about 40 tons of the cliffs landing about 100 feet from me. It sent out a small tidal wave in my direction and I had dust in my mouth for a few more hours. Nothing will get the heart rate up quicker than the site of a landslide.
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First & foremost I don't think I will ever bad mouth a carefully built pvc sifter ever again. I use to think they were cheap & touristy looking, but having designed and assembling one over the past couple weeks (for a better 1/4" sifter better than my narrow & heavy metal basket sifter) it is something else. Beautiful day on the peace river yesterday (apart from someone burning something upwind from where I was sifting lol), saw about record numbers of canoers & fishers. Overall not too shabby for my back not being 100% & not having a yak yet. If anyone wants to hear about the somewhat lengthy trials & tribulations behind building this sifter ( & the minor modifications to come) just let me know & I can post a topic about it sometime P.s. don't drive down the gardner road to the boat ramp if your vehicle's suspension is very sensitive lol +Thread about my unknown bones:
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Headed out to Sulphur River with my girlfriend on Sunday. Checked out a new bridge that looked like it had many gravel bars on the satellite images. Upon getting to the bottom of the bridge my girlfriend promptly got stuck in the mud and ate sh*t. She's a trooper and we didn't let it get us down. After walking for awhile through deep sucking mud we made it to the promised gravel bars. Much of it was covered in mud, silt, and clay but there was still enough gravel for some good hunting. As we would walk through the mud our feet would pull up layers of mud that would have gravel underneath. What exactly has to happen for that mud to wash away and reveal the gravel underneath? I've read a lot on here about the spring rains? Maybe a sustained rise of the river? Here are our finds from the trip. I'll post some close ups of question finds. I'm planning on returning this Saturday for full day hunt. Would anybody like to meet up? @JarrodB @John S. @David E. ?
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No work, kids were in school, and warm temperatures predicted...time to head to the river again! My wife searched along the water's edge while I broke out the shark tooth sifter and dredged the first drop off in the water. It didn't take long before I found a nice Mako and feeling pretty good about it...then my wife yelled at me and motioned me over quickly, a beautiful Cow Shark tooth! We have found a few before but they always were broken, this was the first one that we found that was intact...definite trip maker! We both continued on finding the normal teeth for the area and decided to head home a few hours later, I hesitated and said I needed to find one more tooth before going...glad I did, I then found the second Mako! It's going to be hard for me to work all week without coming down with...*cough cough*...tooth fever! LOL! The total haul: Awesome Cow Shark! Makos I believe this is a Lemon, largest one I have found. A bone fragment that I found, thought it was pretty cool to see the hollow insides. Not sure what this is, My wife found it and thought it looked interesting. I think it is geologic but I told her I would throw it up here to see if anyone thought it was something:
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From the album: Scottish Lower Carboniferous marine shark teeth
Polyrhizodus sp. Lower Carboniferous, Visean Charlestown Main Limestone Central Belt of Scotland 330 mya 20.5x18mm- 4 comments
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Hey all, I am New to the forum, and very happy to be here with all of you. I live close to Philadelphia, but have been traveling to New Jersey to a well known creek that dates back to the Cretaceous period to hunt for fossils. I found this one thing and I have no clue what it is. Perhaps you'd be able to assist? since I can't post too many photos in the same message, I'm going to add a couple more possible fossils that I don't know how to ID. thanks for having me here everybody! brettco
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I went on two trips last Thursday and Friday. The first trip lasted approximately four hours and the second was around five and half. I surface scanned about half of the time during the first trip but did not do so at all during the second trip; this was due to some already looking over the places I went on the second trip. On both trips I explored different areas of the streams.
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A 70 degree in February? You just have to head to the water! I played tour guide to a friend and his two boys (5th & 7th grade), they had a blast! My friend's kids kept seeing my posts on Facebook and wanted to go bad, I definitely had to make a trip happen. We arrived about 2 hours before low tide and immediately started to find teeth, it didn't take long for them to understand the whole process before they were setting out on their own to sift the areas they thought was going to have the best finds...and boy did they find stuff! Tigers, Requiem, Snaggletooth, Lemon, and some Sand tigers...and then I heard a cry, "I've got one with lots of teeth!" Their first trip and they pulled up a Cow shark tooth...and then a second one as well! A group of Boy Scouts came to the beach for a little while and I encouraged them to se the sifters that we weren't using and they were soon finding teeth as well, eagerly bringing them to me so I could identify it for them. One of the Boy Scouts let out a yell, "I found a Great White...or a Meg, I don't know which?" Sure enough, he found a small Meg up near the high water mark, that kid was smiling ear-to-ear...and I don't blame him. One of the Stratford Hall workers came down to the beach and headed past the ropes to check something out, when he came back he walked over to the boys and presented them with a real nice shark vertebrae. A little while later he was back past the ropes and came back 30 minutes later and gave the boys a piece of a whale (dolphin?) skull. My friend's kids were on cloud nine! Then they got another gift from a college student that was combing the beach, a fossilized crab. I never would have known but he pointed out everything to kids and I, absolutely fascinating! As we were leaving, they found a pretty large bone as well, both boys were overjoyed at finding it too! I have to say, if you can take a kid with you and introduce them to this hobby, DO IT! These boys loved every minute of it and learn as they do! I would love to present some nice pictures of our finds but I didn't bring anything back, I just guided and helped them where I could. My wife surface collected, she found a neat fish vert but everything else was the normal small stuff. My wife's finds. The boy's finds Me and the boys, sifting away!
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I went back to Purse today with my wife, you just have to love it when you play at the river in February and only have to wear a sweatshirt. We didn't find anything spectacular but my wife did find a Otodus frag that would have been absolutely spectacular had it been whole. The total haul, some nice glass today too. Otodus frag...this would have been a beast if it was whole! Pretty cool looking sand tiger. Croc tooth...found this sitting high and dry as I was walking fast to get to where I wanted to search at. I see you! Although it was warm today, there were some neat icicles hanging down.
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Hello everybody I have some shark teeth from Belgium for trade. These teeth are al from Antwerp, but at a closed place. These are legal collected in 1970 (not by me). I don't know what species are in this sac. But at least Hastalis, Notorynchus and much more. But I'm not a shark teeth specialist. I want to trade at every interesting offer. You got exactly like you see on the picture. Pm for more info Greetings
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Hey all, Does anyone know the approximate age of the Tirabuzon Formation (AKA Corkscrew Hill) from Santa Rosalia, Mexico? I've seen that it's Pliocene but haven't gotten it narrowed down to the millions of years within the Pliocene. Some sources say late Pliocene while others say early Pliocene, so its been a bit confusing.
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