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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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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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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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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
All angustidens that I have found- 2 comments
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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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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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Megalodon Tooth fossil (Is this tooth real ? Any red flags?)
Nab5454 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Is this tooth real and doesn’t have anything suspicious going on ?
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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
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Hello everyone, I'm at a bit of a loss with this one. I found it 2 days ago diving the Cooper River, in Charleston, SC. There are many interesting finds there, but they are often difficult to ID, as the river cuts through various prehistoric layers and the fossils all collect on the bottom. On this one particular dive, I found both Angustiden and Meg teeth, a giant ground sloth claw, mammoth ivory, and this specimen. Obviously not fully intact, I'm hoping to somewhat unique ball-joint (for lack of a better term) might be something that at least one of you will recognize. There is a natural hole near the joint, which I assume was for a nerve bundle. The bone tapers out and becomes nearly flat. One side has a very distinct ridge. From my limited experience, it looks like it might be part of a lower jaw bone, but have no idea from what. I'm very open to your input. Thank you for taking the time.
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Howdy Everyone! I found this batch of fossils (maybe a rock or two) in Myrtle Beach, SC. Any assistance in identification is greatly appreciated, GOOD LUCK! (Apologies if these photos end up out of order)
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Hi everyone, While hubs and I love nothing more than to seek out teeth and fossils when coming to the beach each year, we chose to head down to Charleston to both John's Island and Folly Beach and found quite a bit. Unfortunately, we're still learning how to ID them so I thought I would ask you knowledgeable people. Could you let me know what these teeth are and for the lightest one, curious how old this one is! thanks for any help!
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Recently picked up a small handful of Thresher shark teeth from South Carolina - there’s 3 I’m not sure on the ID of. First is this one - which was labeled as P. benedini - measures just over 1”/3.25cm The second - thinking A. Grandis? Also just over 1”. And finally - forgot to take more pics of this one, but it’s closer to C. Planus, which I don’t believe exists in SC, so I’m not sure what it is. Person I got it from confirmed they found it themselves - also just over 1”. @Al Dente @hemipristis @Shellseeker Any help would be appreciated!
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partial Megalodon tooth fossil
Nab5454 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I have another Megalodon tooth here can you guys help me authenticate it. It is said to be from South Carolina and it’s a partial tooth IMG_4171.mov
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Here are some of the cool things I have found over the years!
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