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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
Only found broken ones this trip-
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My son found what I think is an oddly shaped Megalodon tooth (grey tooth) on the beach in South Carolina near Charleston. The tooth seems small, blunt, and rounded. It's very thick, but only about 7cm long. Aside from the big chip at the tip, the enamel on the outer edges is intact but wavy, so the deformation isn't from breakage or wear in the ocean. I included another tooth I found on a beach in NC (Topsail Island) for comparison (I don't know the species of that one either -- maybe another meg?). The back of the enamel on the meg tooth is split and there's a weird, circular nub the top where the enamel ends which looks like a growth. It's definitely part of the tooth and about 2-3mm above the enamel. The split in the enamel on the back is also raised and you can feel a noticeable ridge all the way down the back of the tooth. I provided a close up of it. Can anyone tell me: 1. Is this a meg tooth? 2. What might be wrong with it? Why is it so short and what might that split and nub on the back be? 3. What's the species of the normal-looking black tooth used for comparison? Thanks
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Possible Basilosaurid Incisor Tooth From South Carolina River
FossilRobert posted a topic in Fossil ID
I got this tooth from a megalodon tooth collector from South Carolina. They said they collected it from Cooper River alongside megalodon teeth, but weren't certain as to what it came from. To me it looks like an incisor tooth from a basilosaurid, but I haven't seen anything quite like this from South Carolina. It is just over 2-3/5" long and has carinae without serrations (denticles). I could see crocodilian as a possibility as well, but wanted to get some insight from others.
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Low tide reveals approx. 80,000-year-old fossil along South Carolina coast
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Low tide reveals approx. 80,000-year-old fossil along South Carolina coast Josh davis, WPDE, Agust 15, 2023 Low tide reveals approx. 80,000-year-old fossil along Myrtle Beach coast Fox 28m, Savannah, Georgis Yours Paul H.-
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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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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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
My first one! Found surface hunting, so I'm lucky I saw it.- 3 comments
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If you are planning to go to Summerville, SC for your first time, and have been hoping to find Shark Teeth, please read this. My Advice: · I advise only going if you know someone with known locations, or otherwise plan to hire a company or a guide (I do not have someone to recommend). Finding teeth on your own is quite difficult. My hunt: I got lucky this time on a 3-day trip. After having visited Summerville years before with my son to great success, we went through over 25 spots (August 2023) with only two teeth found. We were discouraged. Luckily, we found one location that netted us the teeth shown as a last-minute discovery at the end of day 2. We returned on day 3 after morning rain. Our goal was to find a Megalodon tooth (even broken) of 3" or more, which we were successful!! If it wasn’t for that one spot, the trip would have been disastrous. Unfortunately, the spot that we found will soon have a structure over it so I cannot say this opportunity exists for the future. What didn’t work on my trip? · My known, secret spots didn’t have shark teeth this time. · I had researched fossil formation areas, inland tides, and elevation maps; yet the locations we visited didn’t have shark teeth. We found the right layers, but not teeth (even with low creek flows). What has changed in Summerville? I believe: · Inability to use tools is impactful (there is a law against it). · I believe the hurricane years ago exposed quite a bit of fossils, but since then the volume of fossils are not being exposed quickly. I should have realized there have been a lack of YouTube postings over the past few years. If you go to the Beach without a guide/company: · Going during the day, even at low tide, has too many tourists looking for fossils. We made this mistake. · Go first thing in the morning for better odds. · Go after a storm. · Find a location away from tourists. We are pleased with the results in the images below. I hope this information is useful. Thank you
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I found this in a creek in Summerville, broken by some heavy equipment. I don't normally keep random bone, but this was interesting. Any idea what it is? Currently about 4.3 inches by 2.5 inches. It is thickest in the middle (12 mm) and thins out as you move towards the edges (like a pancake). It is not like any osteoderms I have found yet, but I don't know what bones would be shaped like this, either. Thank you!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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I definitely don't want to incorrectly ID something in the CRM. This one has been questioned, so I'd love your thoughts! Thank you!
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Hello, I hope all is well. I'm looking for some help with ID'ing two items I found on North Myrtle Beach (between 13th and 15th avenue's). The city is in the process of building a new drainage system around 18th avenue that extends out into the ocean (kind of looks like a pier). So there a a fair amount of offshore digging going on. I looked around on the web, a few other resources and a book and couldn't come to a conclusion on the ID for these items. One is a sharks tooth (#1 is the front with ruler for size, #2 is the back, #3 is the front a little closer)...I'm thinking maybe Dusky. The other is a bone or possibly turtle (#4 side view, #5 is the back, #6 is the front, and #7 is with a ruler for size). Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated
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I posted this in my gallery, since it is my first echinoid, and now the comments have me curious. Does anyone know the genus and whether these are uncommon in the area? I've found one paper about echinoids in the Goose Creek Limestone (Miocene-Pliocene fossils), which is one of the possible formations where this was found (ex-situ). Chandler Bridge (Oligocene) is also present, and possibly a Pleistocene lag deposit that contains reworked Miocene fossils. Being the first one I've found (compared to thousands of shark teeth), I would think they are uncommon; just trying to find out to what extent. Thanks so much! Approximately 26 mm across at widest point.
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The literature reviewed shares a common belief that the genus Myliobatis has been, and continues to be, used as a “catch-all” genus within the Myliobatidea family. While the ray fossil record is extensive, incomplete specimens and a lack of sufficient extant material to compare it to has resulted in our inability to recognize generic differences in myliobatid dentitions. While some authors were confident identifying specimens to the genus level (and even reassigning specimens previously identified as Myliobatis to another genus), most included the caveat that we lack the knowledge and material necessary to definitively identify these specimens. A communication with David Cicimurri has provided valuable insight into this find : "As far as the taxon goes, I would identify it as “Aetomylaeus” sp., which is a type of eagle ray. I use quotes because, although the teeth look very much like those of modern Aetomylaeus, studies suggest that the genus had not evolved by the Oligocene, so we can’t call Oligocene species by that name. The species is either something in the lineage that leads to Aetomylaeus or is another taxon that convergently evolved a similar tooth shape and dental arrangement – wide symphyseal teeth flanked by several rows of elongated and diamond-shaped lateral teeth." References: Claeson, K. M., O'Leary, M. A., Roberts, E. M., Sissoko, F., Bouaré, M., Tapanila, L., ... & Gottfried, M. D. (2010). First Mesozoic record of the stingray Myliobatis wurnoensis from Mali and a phylogenetic analysis of Myliobatidae incorporating dental characters. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 55(4), 655-674. Cicimurri, D. J., Knight, J. L., & Ebersole, J. A. (2022). Early Oligocene (Rupelian) fishes (Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes) from the Ashley Formation (Cooper Group) of South Carolina, USA. PaleoBios, 39(1). Cicimurri, D. J., & Knight, J. L. (2019). Late Eocene (Priabonian) elasmobranchs from the Dry Branch Formation (Barnwell Group) of Aiken County, South Carolina, USA. PaleoBios, 36. Cicimurri, D. J., & Knight, J. L. (2009). Late Oligocene sharks and rays from the Chandler Bridge Formation, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54(4), 627-647. Ray, C. E., & Bohaska, D. J. (2001). Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, III. Villafaña, J. A., Marramà, G., Hernandez, S., Carrillo-Briceño, J. D., Hovestadt, D., Kindlimann, R., & Kriwet, J. (2019). The Neogene fossil record of Aetomylaeus (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae) from the southeastern Pacific. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39(1), e1577251. Welton, B. J. (1980). Eocene neoselachians from the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Also visit these websites: https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20080077.html (Chandler Bridge Fm.) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xv324c8 (Ashley Formation)
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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