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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 haven't found enough jaw fragments to be confident IDing them yet. I found this in Summerville, SC in a creek with mostly Oligocene but some Miocene as well. I have two other odontocete jaw fragments from this creek, but both had the double rooted alveoli, so I knew they were odontocete. Is this one also odontocete? Fragment is 45 mm long, 24 mm tall, and 16 mm thick. One tooth's root is visible. Thanks so much!
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Despite not really feeling up to hunting yesterday (I'm getting discouraged by my finds lately), I decided to go while the weather was still decent. And when you are not expecting to find much and/or set the bar pretty low, it makes it easy to exceed your expectations and have a pretty good trip. Here is what I brought home: First up are the odontocete fossils: My first ear bone ever: And a vert and related piece of bone that were sitting together under an uprooted tree: That's it for cetaceans, but that is pretty good for one trip for me. Other verts (not in good shape, though): Burrfish mouth plates (also not good condition): Ray mouth plate pieces and my biggest tail barb so far: Random osteoderms and bone pieces (I keep less than half of the bones I find): Various steinkerns, which I try to limit now as well, but the spiraling ones are cool: Gator tooth that was still partially in matrix: Fish jaw with teeth (maybe...let me know if you recognize it): Crab claw, I think: What I believe is my first piece of petrified wood here (again, feel free to correct me): And, of course, shark teeth: My best Great White so far: My first Angel shark tooth (shoulder and tip of crown are broken): A cool looking tooth - posterior sand tiger I believe: And the rest of the teeth (including a couple broken threshers, a barracuda, a sawfish/sawskate, etc.), which I won't show individually: As always, I wish my body could have handled a few more hours of hunting, but between little rain (no new wash-out), low creek water levels, rising heat, and health limitations, I think it turned out to be a pretty good haul. And no speeding ticket this trip! 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
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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 Summerville, SC in a creek with Oligocene to Pleistocene. 95% of the angy I find here have obvious cusps, so these other 5% often confuse me. Chubs are rare in the area, so I think it has to either be a transitional angy or a meg. Just curious on what everyone's thoughts were, just so I know which of my Riker mounts to put it in. It's small at 1.25 inches. Thank you!
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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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I don't know bones very well yet, but my guess on this one is part of a cetacean occipital condyle. Found in Summerville, SC, in a creek where I find cetacean verts and small cetacean teeth (as well as shark teeth, etc.). Oligocene through Pleistocene layers are present, but there seems to be more Oligocene than anything else. Longest part is 4.25 inches. Any thoughts? Thank you!
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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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My first one! Found surface hunting, so I'm lucky I saw it.- 3 comments
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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 Goose Creek Limestone is early-mid Pliocene and contains un-reworked Miocene-Pliocene fossils. ID references: 1. Gale, B. (2020). A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils. The University of Georgia Press. 2. Kocsis, L. (2007). Central paratethyan shark fauna (Ipolytarnóc, Hungary). GEOLOGICA CARPATHICA-BRATISLAVA-, 58(1), 27 3. Maisch IV, H., Becker, M., & Chamberlain Jr, J. (2015). Chondrichthyans from a lag deposit between the Shark River Formation (Middle Eocene) and Kirkwood Formation (Early Miocene), Monmouth County, New Jersey. Paludicola, 10, 149-183. Stratigraphy information references: 1. Boessenecker, R. (2008, May 13). The Ashley Phosphate Beds: the Reconstruction Era, Vertebrate Paleontology, Fossil Preservation, and Stratigraphic Confusion in Charleston, South Carolina. The Coastal Paleontologist. https://coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-ashley-phosphate-beds.html. 2. Campbell, M. R., & Campbell, L. D. (1995). Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology, 27(1-4).
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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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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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