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Found a new spot (new to me, but I'm sure many others know about it) Saturday where I found quite a few hemis, including my largest one to date, and one with very interesting colors. I also found the attached tooth, which I'm guessing is a symphyseal tooth (pathological maybe), but I don't have anything else like it. Is that indeed what it is and, if so, is it possible to tell what type of shark it is (genus)? Found near the Summerville/Goose Creek area. Thank you for the help!
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My husband picked this up thinking it was Native American pottery but, once we got it home and looked at it, the texture is not right. It is heavier than I would expect clay to be. Found a uniface scraper and other pottery previously in this spot (also shark teeth and verts, and a ton of steinkerns). He has lots of other pottery shards and this just seems too dense. Any ideas? Thank you!
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Hi all! I found a fossilized bone on the beach in South Carolina. I tried to buy a book to see if I could narrow down anything about a type of animal it might come from, but got nothing from the first book. Any suggestions or identifiers you can see? Thanks!
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Went to my two favorite spots yesterday and found quite a bit. Even though one spot usually produces frags, they at least had the cusps still on them this time, so I was able to identify 2 angustidens and 2 chubs (my first ones!). Need help with two teeth and some sort of jaw piece. Tooth 1: Tooth 1 Tooth 1 Tooth 1 Here is tooth 2: Tooth 2 Tooth 2 Tooth 2 And for the little jaw piece: Jaw with teeth Jaw with teeth Jaw with teeth Jaw with teeth There is a mix of epochs there, so that will not help. Have found shark teeth and verts, and horse teeth there as well, so it's a mix of stuff. Thank you so much!
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Found some bone fragments last week in Goose Creek and Summerville, SC that I am putting into my "unknown" jar and wanted to ask what this even is. Just when I started feeling like I was getting a grip on what to look for at the beach, I started going places with light colored teeth and bones, so I feel like I am back at the beginning again. Feels like bone, but is flat and splintered in a way I haven't yet seen. Thank you!
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Can anyone tell me if this is a piece of carapace from a glyptodont? It's the closest thing I can find, but mine doesn't have the "daisy" appearance, so I may be wrong, or it may just be really worn. Ventral side is too worn to look for a foramen. Found in Goose Creek, SC where we are finding a mix of things, but mainly Pleistocene (I think...still a newbie). Thank you!
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Found this in a drainage ditch in Goose Creek, SC (near the Summerville/Charleston area) and my husband thinks it's a mammal tooth. If so, it's my first one. Found shark teeth and some small shark vertebrae in the same area. Can someone please confirm if this is indeed a mammal tooth and, if so, are there any clues as to what kind? Thanks so much!
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Petrified wood that appears to have a somewhat cut end pre-petrification
David In Florence SC posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I think I know this answer but is feasible that a piece of petrified (real) could have an end of it that was cut (doesn’t appear like a newcomer) it’s just a chopped off end in a perfect cut but not like a shear break and this piece is course like it wouldn’t break like that if it broke and it looks original. Not sure if that makes sense. It’s a whitish piece and came with a cross section slice of another piece that was with it. But I know to be petrified it was before mankind so couldn’t be cut back then? -
Found in a creek in South Carolina with late Cretaceous all the way to Pleistocene material.
r00t2400 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hunted a creek which has produced fossils from the late Cretaceous thru the Pleistocene. Clearly a bit degraded but hoping for an identification. Is it a vertebra?Interesting pattern on the centrum.
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Brought this up scuba diving the bottoms of the Cooper River in Charleston, NC: Any chance it’s a Giant Sloth caudal vert??
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Hi all, I found this tooth that washed out of the Charleston Harbor in South Carolina that is ~3 inches long and ~2 inches wide. I was wondering if someone could help me with an ID on it? Thinking it may be horse, bison, or cow, but those are just guesses so any help would be appreciated!
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Went to Goose Creek, South Carolina yesterday for the first time. Found my largest frags ever and first non-marine tooth, but nothing like what most of you find. However, after having only found the black or gray & black teeth from the beaches, I was amazed at the color difference. Picture of beach finds vs. Goose Creek area finds.
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I'm still trying to get a grasp on how to date teeth from South Carolina. I've read several things, including some older posts on here like this one: However, I'm still not sure I understand. Yesterday, I tried a spot in Goose Creek for the first time. I believe it was just one of the drainage ditches, but it was a decent drop down to it. The very bottom layer of exposed bank was a gray clay type material that appears to be the layer that people in the area dig in. I searched along that layer of the bank and found a few things sticking out that appear to be shark and some other type of tooth (maybe horse or something). The teeth are very worn or fragments. If I understand correctly, the Goose Creek Limestone formation is Pliocene, but that area (Summerville, Ladson, Charleston) seems to have multiple formations. I believe one of the teeth may be a piece of a large snaggletooth, which could be Pliocene, but could also be a lot of other things. So, my question is, would everything that came out of the same foot-tall section of layer that I could access be from the same time period, or could there be older ones in that same layer? So, assuming I could identify one tooth that only came from one or two time periods, could I assume that the others did as well? I'll attach a picture of the items that came from that layer (the smaller snaggletooth in the first pic was sitting on top of that layer, not in it). Also found a couple shark verts on the sand in the creek bed.
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I understand that there is too little of this tooth to identify, but my husband is just so desperate to hear that one little word (meg!) that he thinks I'm just too lazy to ask. So, let me see if my assumptions here are correct (still new and learning). Found on Folly Beach (South Carolina) yesterday which I believe means it could be Oligocene to Pleistocene. So, possibly angustiden, chub, subauriculatus (I've also found auriculatus, so I'm not sure which is correct), or meg. Based on the curve, I would guess that it would be at least 3 inches if whole, which I don't think rules any of those out. The serrations are either small or just really worn, which doesn't tell me much. I think the cusps (or lack thereof) are the important identifier, which we don't have. Are my assumptions correct or is there a way to narrow it down more, such as thickness? Thanks for the help!
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I found this rock on Folly Beach yesterday and know even less about these sorts of fossils than I do about shark's teeth. Can someone please tell me what this is? There are 3 of them in the rock, but the other one was harder to photograph. Thanks!
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I found this on Edisto beach. Can anyone tell me if it is some sort of tooth? Thank you!
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Hey y'all. Long time lurker, first time poster and first time beach fossil hunting (previously only done stuff in TX/CO road and river cuts), so this "sand thing" is all new. I did many hours of research in an attempt to leverage this extra day I had on top of my nonprofit's staff retreat and it did not disappoint. I landed on The Sands beach and Hunting State Park - both near savannah, GA/port royal, SC and both mentioned a few times on this forum. Most of this was found on the Sands within about an hour of looking, but the shark tooth, the flatter possible turtle shell(?) piece, and a couple other interesting small pieces were after about 2-2.5 hrs walking along Hunting Island north beach. I know ID will be unlikely on most of the bones, but figured I'd try as a couple seem pretty interesting! I'm most interested in the last 2 pics as I don't care much about the lighter conglomerate-looking pieces. I recognize I messed up on the lack of scale, but I'm on the road and operating out of my car. If it helps, there's a beer can in one pic and the large (vert?) piece is close to fist-sized. Happy to post more pics in the AM if folks need them. Any help or insight is most appreciated and now that I have an account, I hope to post more often
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So I have this tooth that I found up in south Carolina earlier this year, it's an amazing tooth as far as color goes, but does have "a small" bit of corner damage. But what I am wandering about it is (as you have seen in the title) I believe it could be a chubutensis tooth. I am no expert on this kind of shark but I noticed that the remaining corner looks to have an extremely small cusp if it is one at all. if somebody can tell please let me know, thank you.
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I am working on learning to identify the shark teeth we've collected at the beach the last few months and am finding it difficult on some of the smaller ones (though none of them are really big). Especially when the book says lack of serrations is a big identifier for a specific shark, but then says that some of the teeth may have serrations anyways (just a general example). Anyway, the root of this tooth is shaped a lot differently than the others. Not sure if maybe some of the features are worn off, but it seems very smooth and consistent (not broken off). Very rectangular and large for the size of the crown. Really unremarkable with no distinguing features (at least to my untrained eye). Can someone please tell me what this is? Found on either Folly or Edisto beaches in SC. Thank you so much!
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I’m new to the fossil community, and found a few sharks teeth on a beach in southern South Carolina USA. I was wondering if anyone had any insight on what species they may be from. I numbered the teeth in the pictures to avoid any confusion in the replies. Any help is much appreciated, thx.
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Hi, all, I am new (I posted on the member intro, if you want to know why I'm asking what will be a very easy question for most of you). I'm learning to identify shark teeth with the help of a book that was recommended, as well as this forum, and a few sites. This tooth is confusing me, as it doesn't look like any of the options I've seen. I have a few guesses, but can anyone help me out? Found at either Edisto or Folly Beach in SC. Large serrations on one side and very small (and worn) serrations on the other side. Very big bulge where the nutrient groove is. Thank you so much!
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Hi, everyone. I am a new member but have been using the forum to help me identify shark's teeth and other beach fossils for a few months. I am fairly new to South Carolina and very new to the hobby. Science, history and geography were not my strengths in school, so I have a lot to learn! I had no intention of getting into the hobby and reluctantly agreed to go to the beach with my husband one day so he could look for teeth. Turns out, it was relaxing and exciting (I found a shark vertebrae the first couple of hours), and now I am hooked. This forum has been very helpful so far, so thank you everyone. I am sure I will have some very basic/noob questions, so I apologize in advance. Thanks!
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I found this today in Edisto, South Carolina, on the beach, and would appreciate any information that can be given about it. I can provide additional pictures if needed. Thanks
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I found this tiny tooth in a creek in Summerville South Carolina. Help with an id would be greatly appreciated. I’ve seen a couple other posts with a similar tooth where the consensus was undetermined species. Is this the case with this tooth as well? Thanks in advance!
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