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Found these 2 matching partial bones in the same location. I’m confident they are bones, but unsure of their origin. This site is known for Pleistocene fossils. Savannah, GA. Savannah River. Shark Tooth Island.
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Found this unique looking bone but can’t pinpoint an ID. I’ve seen similar bones on pictures of Giant Ground Sloths but the back of the one I have isn’t quite as curved. I’m definitely thinking it’s a part of a finger or toe.
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Found on dredge island off of Savannah River.
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Looking for help identifying these 4 fossils. I have received multiple suggestions so I am turning to the experts. Thought is the first is 1. Vertebrae (2”), 2. Sperm whale tooth, 3. Ankle bone but from what? (2”) 4. Marine due to porous nature.
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Hey everyone, new here, but hoping I’ve come to the right place! My family just got back from tooth hunting on shark tooth island and found these too and wondered how we could confirm what they are and if they’re just ordinary or could be extraordinary!
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Hi everyone, I found this in January of 2017 on Shark tooth island on the Savannah River in Georgia. Always have been curious what it is. The area has dredged material and contains fossils from the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene. It is slightly conical and symmetrical, uniform, and ovalish in cross section - straight in profile with no discernible curvature. In profile, one side is smoother and striated, the other coarser, dimpled, with elevated black speckles. It is not porous inside like other bones from the area. It appears to have schreger lines. I'm not sure if it is some sort of tusk, but I havn't seen other tusks without some degree of curvature. Overcast day here in Seattle. If photos aren't clear enough I'll upload some others on a sunny day. Thanks!
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Tooth? Bone? Please help the curious but ignorant finder
All Things Ocean posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi all! Found this while hunting for shark teeth (posting later) - looks like either a tooth or tusk or....? It bears noting this was found on a man-made island from dredge from the savannah river.
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Found this buried in the sand on a man-made dredge island in the middle of the Savannah River. Guy I was with said it was a partial megalodon... what say you all?
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Wondering what the shark teeth experts think of these. Found on man-made dredge island in Savannah River. I'm thinking A is great white and. B might be a bull shark, but am not positive and don't have guesses about the others. Thanks!
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Found this on the same man-made dredge island as the (now id'd, thk you!) whale tooth. Unsure what to guess... rib?
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These are teeth I found on our trip to tybee island for father's day. There are a couple charter companies that will take you out to islands created from where the river is dredged for the container ships. I'm not sure if #2 is actually a tooth or not but I tend not to throw anything back because when I found #6 (last year) it was mostly a clump of clay except for the very top showing. I carried it around like that for about 2 hours as a "good luck charm" then when we were about to leave I rinsed the clay off in the surf and saw the actual tooth portion. The guy that takes us to the island keeps saying it's been picked over and that there's nothing left out there but I found over 40 and my 9 year old daughter found 20. Two months ago we found about the same amount so the only thing I can think is he's saying it so people that don't take their time will be less disappointed.
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Noob to the forum. First collected fossils in the Westmoreland State Park area on the Potomac (in Virginia) when I was a little girl and just recently started back up. Now I hunt with MY kids. It used to be a lot easier to collect there when you could walk under the cliffs at Stratford Hall. I hope to soon go on one of the private expeditions that are allowed to go on Stratford Hall property. That way I can collect from fresh falls before they are messed up by the tides. This year we paid for rights to visit a little private island called Hollis Island aka Shark Tooth Island and have had a LOT more luck than at Westmoreland. Problem is the fossils have had to travel to get there so they are mostly either broken or small. We still really enjoy it and make a day of swimming, hunting, and picnicing. My username is because the biggest tooth I have ever found was a from a crocodile, and I have only ever found ONE crocodile tooth. I was 18 and with a guy and didn't have pockets so I asked him to hold it for me. FORGOT. Losing that tooth bugs me to this day. Didn't get to go fossilling again for a loooong time, but now that I have started back up I have made it my goal to find another... and of course a Meg tooth. I mostly have makos, sand, and tiger. Always looking for "the big one". I also have lots of mammal bones and ray dental plates. Fossil hunting is soooo addictive. I keep wanting to find "just one more" and need another fix before I can bring myself to stop for the day. Here are pics of some of my more interesting finds finds from this past weekend, sorry for the flash inner ear bone from a dolphin my biggest shark tooth so far and the smallest (aren't they cute!? wonder how tiny the shark was?) the disc that grows in between bones of a mammal (not very technical, sorry). But I LOVE the pattern on it.
