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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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Found this in likely Oligocene sediments. V-shaped in cross-section, about 7 "teeth" per side, tapered to one end, 2mm long. A jaw? A tiny claw? A piece of fishy bone?
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References: Gale, B., Gale, P., & Gale, A. (2020). A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils. University of Georgia Press. Miller, A., Gibson, M., & Boessenecker, R. (2021). A megatoothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens) nursery in the Oligocene Charleston Embayment, South Carolina, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica, 24(2), 1-19.
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This was found on South Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Most of the piece is worn but there are some smooth surfaces. The shape is irregular. Is this a worn fossil or a weird rock?
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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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Found in Williamsburg County, SC. I'm new.
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This was found recently on South Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. It looks like a bone but the curvature is more pronounced than what we usually find. It also has one end with more of a point. Any insight appreciated
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I picked this up on the beach yesterday. It is heavy and has some characteristics of bone but internal structure is more rock-like. Would love help with identifying.
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I am new to Fossil Forum, and want to test a few initial ID posts to see if I am including the right info and capturing sufficiently-clear photos. Here are two fossils, both of which I think may be (toothed whale?) vertebra. They come from an estate collection I acquired last year, all contents of which were unidentified but labeled as coming from Edisto Beach, SC on dates ranging from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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I am learning how to spot steinkerns, and I believe that all of these are examples. The first set of three would be gastropods, I think, and the set of two smaller ones are possibly phosphatic steinkerns of coral. I am not certain. [These come from an estate collection I acquired last year, all unidentified but labeled as coming from Edisto Beach, SC on dates ranging from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.]
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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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Please help identify possible skull fragment found on South Carolina Beach.
Cornpop posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found this on the beach in Georgetown,South Carolina, USA. The beach is in the Waccamaw Geological formation & same area l found other Pleistocene megafauna fossils ( mammoth, bison & horse ). I believe it is a reptile skull with its lower jaw missing. It has symmetrical nostrils & 2 pinholes (photo 2) that pass thru and exit 50mm back itself. There is a raised ridge above the “nostrils” (photo 3) & it appears to have two broken eye sockets on each side (photo 4). Toward the front of the roof of its mouth it looks like 5 to 6 evenly spaced tooth sockets (photo 5). ( I have compared it to turtle skulls online but l can’t find anything similar) I will post more photos or measurements if needed) any input or ideas is welcome & greatly appreciated.
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I’m not sure if this is a tooth. Found in South Carolina on a beach. It has a raised ridge down the middle on one side.. Therefore I thought it was not a bone? It is small and worn making it more difficult to identify. Any thoughts?
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I’ve been fossil hunting on South Carolina beaches for several years. Never have I found a crab. Yesterday I found two. (I think) They look very similar to the blue crabs in this area. Were there crabs many thousands of years ago and did they look similar to those of present day?
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Hi all, I recently came across the enigmatic taxon from South Carolina (and apparently New Jersey) - Conosaurus Bowmani. It was named in 1851 from the teeth depicted here, found in the Oligocene either Ashley or Chandler Bridge formations It was misidentified first as a mosasaur (hence saurus suffix) and had been suggested to be renamed conosaurops, but that doesn’t seem to have caught on. Only a few specimens have ever been found that I am aware of, primarily teeth and a couple jaw segments. Two of which were in a previous post by ClemsonSkulls which I was reading this morning, which likely came out of the eocene in a SC limestone quarry. I also see mentions of it from the Cretaceous of NJ. I am curious if anyone has specimens of or knows anything more about this taxon. I have located 4 references for it, including some great descriptions of its tooth shape, but as far as I can tell there have been no elements past the jaw that have ever been ascribed to this ferocious predator, and there is no clue what it is or looked like. Hoping someone knows something more! Thanks all!
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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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Confused by this fossil and hoping for some help learning how to differentiate. Fossil is approximately 3 1/2” x 4 1/2”. One side looks like bark, break patterns look like rock and line patterns are varied. Perhaps I’m overcomplicating?
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Mystery fossil found on a South Carolina, USA beach Please help identify
Cornpop posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found this on the beach in Georgetown,South Carolina, USA. The beach is in the Waccamaw Geological formation & same area l found other Pleistocene megafauna fossils ( mammoth, bison & horse ). This fossil has a toad skin like appearance with row of nodules dividing a semi flat surface & a 45degree angled rough surface. Any help with identifying it is welcome & appreciated.
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I found this in Summerville back in early January, the shape seems a bit different than most angustudens I've seen and I was wondering if I've finally found a confident chubutensis. Any thoughts? Thanks! (4cm in length)
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