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Hi group, my family and I are longtime shark tooth hunters. We’ve always gone to Venice and Sarasota. We’ve found great success using a shark tooth shovel and digging in shell piles a few feet into the water. We usually find hundreds of teeth this way. We’ve decided to try Amelia island this year and it seems that most people don’t use shark tooth shovels over there. I understand you can find teeth on the beach but are shark tooth shovels still useful to dig in the water? Is there any reason why this wouldn’t work as well as it has for us when we go to Venice?

Hi everyone, I'm elderly I guess and I enjoy fossils, rocks, gems and all things nature. I always wanted to do an archeological dig etc. Just fascinates me. Someone told me start by going shark teeth hunting and I did and found a few. I have been pouring over charts trying to figure it out and still confused. Some are similar to others. I'd love to know what kind of shark teeth they are and also I have a rock fossil I found circa 1980 on Lake Michigan. My Astronomy instructor at the time said "oh that's just 10s of thousands of years old not millions so of no consequence". He never said what it was and I was hoping to identify it as well. I'll start with the four shark teeth and I have four other pieces I think might be but not sure. Maybe not. hard to tell sometimes! They are all very small. i was hoping for bigger specimens. Anyway, all the teeth were found this past weekend at Colonial Beach "Fossil Beach" they call it in Westmoreland County, VA. That should help a bit. If anyone can help, it'll be appreciated. I have a few other fossils but bought ones. Oh one more question... does anyone here know of a good Geology forum that's well put together like this one??? This seems to be a very well run board. Impressed by the people here, how smart they are, how civil and how the board looks overall. Good job! Photos below. I was thinking Lemon shark for one? Hard to know. First one is four at the bottom I KNOW are teeth and ones at the top unsure about. Closer views of the bottom ones are the following two photos. I think the photos are good enough to identify. Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi, found this vertebra in a New Jersey Brook not far from this tooth… any ideas? thank you!

My wife and I managed to get down to the Ramanessin in NJ one afternoon last week. We haven't been able to get down in well over a year and they obviously have had some crazy rains since. The dam upstream from the school that was already mostly disintegrating completely blew out on one side and the deep pool that used to be just below it is completely silted over. There were also a lot more trees down across the water than I remember. Unfortunately there hadn't been any recent heavy weather and the creek seemed well picked over, but at least we didn't get blanked. My finds (1 inch squares/quarter inch dots): My wife's finds: I found my first mosasaur tooth, but its the saddest most riverworn little nub and is just under half an inch long, but at least the curse is broken: Steinkern Tooth with matrix on root unknown vert I will post a few items on the identify board