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Hi! I am hoping someone could help ID and date this sea biscuit that I found last week at the northern end of Myrtle Beach, SC. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Hello everyone, A couple years ago I decided to try fossil hunting for the first time at Myrtle Beach, SC after learning about it from a fossil hunter I met while there. I found some interesting things during the week there, mostly in tide pools that formed later in the day, around 5-6 pm I think. There are a few I could tell were fossils, but the rest I am not sure about so I wanted to see if anyone could help give me an idea of what I might've found. There is a fossil dig site in my state not too far from where I live, so I might take them there as well for identification if they allow it, but I wanted to see if anyone on here might know as well cause this site was recommended to me by the fossil hunter. I used the cm side of a 12 in metal ruler (30 cm) to give an idea of how long each one is and tried to get as many photos of each one from different angles, but did have to hold some of them for certain angles, so I apologize for my hand being in some of the photos. There are 10 different fossils/potential fossils I have photos of, so I labeled the photos as Fossil #-photo #, so when replying you can use that to let me know which potential fossil you are identifying (ex 4-2, 3-1, etc). I hope the photo labeling helps some with responses. I look forward to seeing what you guys think they are and if I need to post some more photos of them please let me know. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Hello there! I found this "Bone/Fossil?" on the beach in Longs SC. Any help with the identification or classification of this would be fantastic! Thanks again, ABC
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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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I have one other shark tooth from Sunday that I cannot ID. Found in the same creek as the retroflexus, but not necessarily the same formation. Thank you so much!
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Found this tooth yesterday, washed out of the high bank along a creek in Ladson, SC (near Summerville). Have found teeth from multiple epochs here in the past. I have been looking at Alopias grandis and Paratodus benedini, but I have never found either and definitely need some help. It has enamel "shoulders" (looks like cusps that never really came all of the way out). Thank you!
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As I explore more around Summerville/Ladson, I am starting to find a few teeth that I haven't found before. This one from yesterday has me confused. First guess would be lower great white, after searching old posts on this forum because of the nutrient foramen and lack of cusps (if it had cusps, I would say angy). Root shape doesn't match upper great white, but I think it could be lower (maybe). Doubts about great white are that the serrations look small and the root still doesn't match most of the pics I see of great white. Also not sure if this has a small bourlette or it's just part of the root. Also, I haven't found great whites in these creeks before, so it makes me doubt that. I have hunted this creek before, but never found anything this far upstream. There are a mix of formations. Can someone help? Thank you so much!
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I knew a day of little finds was coming, and yesterday happened to be that day. Looks like a huge amount of rain had come through, which I thought would be a good thing, but it just washed sand over top of everything. There is a dark, muddy layer where I often find nice angustidens, and a lighter layer below that has sand and clay. I pulled a vert out of the lighter layer, and it's not the typical small, round vert I find. Fish, shark, or something else? I also found what I just assumed was a broken angy in the bottom of the creek and stuck it in a bag. I looked at it today and realized it isn't an angy, and is more than half there. Best guess is a mako, but I have no idea. Sorry, I am really struggling to get good photos of it. The third pic is just to show the nutrient foramen. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks, everyone!
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Found this jawbone in Summerville, SC yesterday. Have found both angustidens and a meg here, so there are multiple epochs. Bone is filled in with matrix and has a very noticeable groove along the side. Any ideas as to what it could be from? Thank you!
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Since posting my last trip report (below), I've gotten back out twice. I have a handful of spots and am still figuring out how much they produce (if I can go on a weekly basis and still find stuff). Since I drive about 2 hrs each way, I always hope to find one good "trip maker" each week, but who doesn't? But, I was having a pretty good string of luck lately and, being a novice with limited sites, knew it had to come to an end. Last week seemed like it was going to be it. My spots weren't recovering quickly enough and I was either finding little stuff, or broken/worn teeth. It was looking like these were going to be the best I could do (which is funny because I would have been thrilled to find these 4 months ago): I decided to try out two new spots, one of which was a very bad idea in the heat. I came across this guy, which did not make me feel any better about the spot: It definitely was not the honey hole that I had been expecting, so I went on to another spot. Found a decent amount of small teeth and ray mouth parts until it was time to leave. And then, walking back in the creek, I looked down and saw what I thought was just a broken angustidens. But, no, this broken, worn tooth was my find of the day/week because it was my first identifiable meg frag! It's small (for a meg), it's broken, but that was what I had been waiting for! (Also found my first tuna hypural bone, which is cool.) So, after finding a meg last week, I had already accepted that yesterday would be the day of disappointment. Other than to find a complete meg, how could I top last week? Sites seemed to not be producing much, but I found a small angy that I decided would have to be my find of the day: Had one spot left to hit when the storm started to roll in, but I was determined to get there and look quickly (2 mile hike for this spot). I literally had about 10 minutes in the spot before the sky turned too dark to see much but, what did I see? This!! Something that actually did top my small, broken meg! I decided to make a run for it after that, and made it back to my truck right before the downpour. So, here I am again knowing that I will soon have a disappointing hunt.
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I think I know the species of these teeth, but they have strange features, and I wonder if they are pathological or (para)symphyseal. G — I think this is a giant thresher tooth. However, it seems unusual in having a cusplet-like fold of enamel on one shoulder (marked by the red asterisks). From Morris Island, SC USA H — O. angustidens, one cusplet appears typical but one is very muted. Root is also relatively tall. From Morris Island, SC USA. I — Similar to H... O. angustidens, one cusplet appears typical but one is very muted. Some enamel damage, but I don't think it extends over the "muted" cusplet. From Summerville, SC USA.
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Thanks for any help with these — the last 4 unidentified teeth from my recent trip. C — looks in profile like a generic Carcharinus, but the root is very robust! Perhaps symphyseal or pathological? From Summerville, SC. D — The cusplet-like serrations are suggestive of Hardnose shark (C. macloti), but those are rare in the Atlantic according to (https://www.fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/fish-shark/carcharhinus/index.htm). Also the root seems unusually broad. The edge of the enamel is broken off one side of the crown, as visible in the third image. From Morris Island, SC. E — At a loss on this one! The enamel:root ratio is very low! Pathological? From Summerville, SC. F — Seems bull shark like (C. leucas), but the tooth and root are very thick. Symphyseal or pathological perhaps? From Summerville, SC.
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• Bone is from Chandler Bridge formation in Ridgeville, South Carolina. One end is partially closed over, like a node of bamboo (left panel in top image). • tooth is from Drum Island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Seems to match some internet images annotated as juvenile ground sloth tooth. I'm not sure if either end is the chewing surface. Possibly the surface shown in the bottom-right two images of lower image. Thanks for any thoughts.
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I am still new at this, can someone help me rule out what is bone or might be worth looking at closer? I picked these up on the beach near Charleston over the last year or two, and I’m curious what else I can learn here. Thank you all for the knowledge and your expertise!
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I have so many frags that can't be identified beyond Otodus sp. because they are missing the corners where a cusp would be. At this stage, I just want to find an identifiable meg, even if it's a frag. I'm not even asking for a whole one (yet)...I don't feel like that's asking too much. Anyway, I found this one today and it is broken and worn, but I don't see a cusp. There is a chip, but not a cusp. Can this be identified or is it still just an indeterminate Otodus sp.? I am including a picture of it with a (worn) angustidens that I found today also, just to show the difference. Both were found in creeks in the Summerville area, just in different ones. It's a mix of formations there anyways.
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Good morning fossil friends! Found this unknown fossil on Morris Island, SC yesterday. Morris Island is an uninhabited island near Charleston and was used by the port authority to dump dredge spoils from the Charleston Harbor for many years. During big tides or storms, the impoundment walls erode and deposit fossils, shells, etc. on the beach. I'd love your help in ID'ing this fossil. Thank you!!
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I found a few things yesterday that I don't know what they are or where to even begin searching. I'll just post 2 for now. Item 1 appears to be a tooth of some sort. Not sure if it is fossilized. Typically, I would guess not based on color, but I found it in the Goose Creek area, where I also find white and light colored shark teeth. Item 2 was found in the Ladson area, in a creek where multiple formations wash out from the eroding banks. Multiple epochs are possible in all of these locations. Fossil or rock? Thanks for the help!
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Found this bone in Edisto Island, South Carolina on the beach. 7/2/2022 Do you think it’s a fossilized bone? I have never found something like this before
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I'm putting all the random, unidentifiable bone shards that I picked up last Saturday away and came across two that are interesting. Does anyone know what these are from? Bone 1 kind of has a twist to it and appears to maybe be the tip or end of something: Bone 2 has an edge that somewhat resembles the edge of a ray spine, but for just a small area, not the entire length. The rest of it is not consistent with any other ray spine pieces I've found, but that's the best way I knew to describe it: I assume they will remain unknowns, but thought I'd give it a try. Thank you so much!
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I know I've barely made it to the little league (or still tee-ball maybe?) but I wanted to share some finds from yesterday and last Saturday. (For those who aren't familiar with the baseball reference, it means that my fossil hunting skill level is the lowest level there is. ) Anyway, walked two creeks last Saturday and a few yesterday (two of the same from last weekend). Yesterday alone, I found 155 shark teeth as well as 17 ray mouth plate pieces, a few vertebrae, some steinkerns worthy of picking up, a barracuda tooth or two, and a ton of unidentifiable bone shards that I eventually stopped picking up. Still have a few things left to identify, so maybe there will be something else exciting. Most of it was small, but I found a few things to share: My prettiest angy to date (condition-wise): My largest whole tooth to date: My largest hemi: Some interesting hemis (feels like something on the surface, not in the enamel itself, but it doesn't come off): Two symphyseal teeth (one was posted in the ID section last week): And a teeny-tiny sand tiger tooth (posted in ID section yesterday): Although I didn't find much at this particular site, I thought I would share a picture of the pretty day. For those of you who have heard others talk about Sawmill Branch (specifically behind the YMCA), this is what it looks like at low tide: Here's hoping to some more weekends with decent temps and low humidity, and the physical ability to do this once a week! Thanks for reading! P.S. To clarify my comment regarding steinkerns, I have nothing against them, but one location has dozens that all look pretty much the same, so I don't pick them up unless they are different or better quality than the others there.
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Horse tooth? (Sorry if I’m asking in the wrong place, newbie here!)
Mom of finder posted a topic in Fossil ID
My son found this along the beach area along the Wando River on Daniel Island, SC, USA. (size reference is a USA penny which measures approx 19mm in diameter) He normally finds shark teeth at the various beaches around Charleston so this treasure really excites him, THANK YOU for all opinions, expertise, high-fives!
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Went hunting at a few creeks today in the Summerville/Ladson areas. I don't know how I managed to see this tooth (just surface hunting, no sifting). In trying to Google what it might be, I came across some posts on cat shark teeth. Can someone please tell me if that is what this is? Thank you!
