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Chesapeake Bay West Shore Trip - Matoaka Lodges + Driftwood Beach, Chesapectans Galore!
Chris Carpenter posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I thought a quick update on the scene along the west shore of the Chesapeake Bay might be informative. We've been going down there using Airbnb for the past few years; this allowed us to stay in Chesapeake Beach in 2021 and access Brownie's Beach a.k.a. Bayfront Park, where the Shark teeth are abundant and even the kids could find them in the surf. Chesapeake Beach has closed all short term rentals post-Covid and getting to Brownies is now very difficult without a boat and taking advantage of the high tide laws in Maryland. (They can block access to the beach, but cannot prevent you walking or boating to the beach as long as you stay below the high tide line.) North Beach just north of town has a beach practically devoid of fossils and too many docks between the two beaches to wade it; you could possible rent a place in NB and canoe or boat to Brownies. Calvert Cliffs State Park is almost 2 miles walk from the road and picked clean to death in summer. This leaves one to get creative if hunting the west shore is your goal. The two aforementioned locations are imho the best in terms of fossil quantities if not quality, public access in the case of the Calvert Cliffs, and generally an easy outing sans the walk to get to the beaches. However... Two options we had great success with recently were the always-faithful Matoaka Lodges and Airbnb rentals in southern Calvert County that get you into some of the other beaches. Shark teeth are not as plentiful in either case. Driftwood Beach is loaded with turitella and various snails but not much else. The cliffs on either side however are loaded with Chesapectans and some other species of clam-like fossil. They continually wash out and are well preserved. Matoaka Lodges on the other hand can be picked to death in the summer as well but normally a small walk north along the surf with reveal both cliff and beach areas with fossils. Loads of Chesapectans here too. Occasionally small shark teeth in the surf. NOTE : I found some weird white fossils in the cliff at Matoaka which are pictured below. Still have not identified it. Some of the chunks were as large as your hand and would flake off identical layers. Anyone with any thoughts please weigh in, much appreciated.- 2 replies
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Gastropod Turitella vertebroides Corsicana Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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Thanks for any help putting species IDs on these marine fossils from Magoito Beach, Portugal. My best guesses are as follows: 1-12) Oysters, unsure of species 13-20) Clams, original material and steinkerns. 13, 16 and 19 are quite "tall", others rather flat. 21, 22) ?? Possibly a coral? Or crinoid fragments or a trace fossil? 23, 24) smaller oyster pieces 25) a mussel? 26-29) gastropods 30) shark tooth - possibly goblin shark? Sadly fragmented, but has distinctive pair of lobes at the root midline 31) ?? intriguing paddle-shaped structure with a distinctive mid-line 32-38) bonus calcite and gypsum crystals
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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I don’t remember exactly where I found these either Florida South Carolina or North Carolina but I was wondering what some of these were if it’s possible to tell and are they fossilized? 1 looks like a turitellid gastropod, 2, 5, and 6 all have the squared off hinge and may be all the same but the colors are different 3 is not symmetric but angled to one side, 7 are cool and spiky, 8 are slightly angled but the hinge part isn’t well preserved 9 I have no clue they may all be different 10 I also have no idea, 11 is some sort of shell, 12 another snail shell and no clue on 13. Any and all help is appreciated, there is a lot I don’t know about there, oh and they are all on an 8 by 11 inch piece of paper. Let me know if you need additional photos of any
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Near New Braunfels, Texas, (Comal County US)would be guessing any more specifics on location...scale reads 5.8 pounds measurements 18mm x 11.5mm x 10mm prolly found about a year ago so details are fuzzy but this thing is amazing. Close up of one of the golden sparkly crystals edit- sorry picture stinks had to get new phone and yeah....I will redo later no time no time late for an important date!
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I am trying to identify my gastros. I can easily identify tylostomas, gyrodes, nerinea and lunatia. What has me stumped is Anchura, Turitella, and Cerithium -I had looked up online and in the Field Guide to Texas Fossils and they look like what I have. But then I got the book Texas Cretaceous Gastropods and none of the species look like what I thought i had ID'd. So now I am confused. Any help in ID would be appreciated. ..(all of these were found in Central Texas - Hays, Bandera, Comal, Blanco and Gillespie Counties) I thought these were Turitella, but none look like what is drawn in the Texas Cretaceous Gastropod book, but the Field Guide says Turitella: I think these might be Cerithium bosquense but others say it's Pseudomelania? And are these just small Anchura? The big Anchura I have seem to have a distinct "shoulder" on them:
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Hi folks, what do I have here? The label says ‘Turitella Essonne France 45 million years old’ I guess Essone is a typo and should be Essonne? Cube is 1cm3 @fifbrindacier @Coco @maxfossils
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I erroneously identified this earlier as the similar Turritella plebia, until looking at one more reference! Mariacolpus octonaria is an index fossil for the Drum Cliff Member of the Choptank Formation. Donated to the Delaware Museum of Natural History
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