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Here is another find from today along the York River in Virginia, if anyone can ID. Thanks!
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Hello, Can anyone help me ID this item I found along the York River near Williamsburg, Virginia? Measurements are in inches.
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Went out to find a new spot. After a few unproductive but relaxing hours (not as humid, not many mosquitoes, lots of frogs), I found a spot that yielded a bunch of small teeth, including a cowshark and three angelshark teeth. Also found pieces of at least three tiger shark teeth (rare in my old spots) Found a piece of frog(?) jaw with three flattened teeth (small but bigger than most I've found). I thought I had found another Mako ventral tooth, but it has serrations, heavy at the bottom and fine in the middle edges of the blade. People here IDed it as a hemi ventral tooth. Picked up about 20 "drum teeth" but half lacked the distinctive glossy top and hollow bottoms (and a few black shell bits discarded with the small black round rocks). Hopefully the "vein" won't die out like the last spot!
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs
Ecphora, probably E.megane, but I'll say for sure when I prep it! Virginia Miocene Collected on private property with permission. -
From the album: Calvert Cliffs
Molds from the Choptank Formation. Member unknown. Virginia Miocene -
From the album: Calvert Cliffs
Choptank Formation Virginia Miocene Collected on private property with permission -
From the album: Calvert Cliffs
Choptank Formation Virginia Miocene Photographed exactly as found, with brilliant, polished surface when dry! Collected on private property with permission. -
Back out to the same productive spot. Unfortunately it "played out" within an hour, but yielded a nice Great White/ Mako tooth, a very nice cowshark tooth, a few more angel shark teeth, and more drum teeth (some from last trip), more teeth, a scute and turtle shell pieces, and a small piece of jaw with two flat-topped teeth.
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Finally went back to the creek. Lots of changes from the rains. Took my first few hours to find productive spots, which I only worked the last hour. The mosquitoes were horrific; although there were leopard(?) frogs everywhere, no dent in the mosquito population (must have missed a few spots with bug spray or they liked the flavor). One big cow shark tooth with a root, some points tipped, and and a second piece, three or four angel shark teeth, which I missed at the beach trips. Lots of spikes, and little teeth. Found three small verterbrae, skate teeth, rough stinger, and scute, and several drum teeth (waiting for stuff to dry).
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Hi, I found these two odd items yesterday at Westmoreland State Park. Both were in the stream that feeds from the wetlands into the river. The "fang" type piece does appear to be hollow. The small black piece might just be a weird rock but kind of looks like a piece of scute (fingers crossed lol!). Thanks in advance for any help!
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While I am eager to check out the creek in the woods, have had some trouble with tick ricketssiae, and also not eager to trudge through swamp. So I paddled over to a nearby beach on the Rappahannock, hoping all the recent flooding had deposited some shark teeth. Mostly I found whale bone (will post after dries), but was rewarded in two hours with five white shark/ mako teeth, a hemi and a few others. Most were weathered but two are nice. Also found a couple of giant tree oyster shells (??: common in the swampy creek) but with strong luster (?). Maybe something similar extant??? The penny for scale is 0.75 inches (19mm) in diameter.
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Hello everyone! I've been collecting fossils here and there for a number of years but not too seriously. I recently found a nice meg tooth and that has stoked my interest - that and finding myself newly semi-retired and looking for fun outdoor activities. I divide my time between Northern VA and SWFL. I also have an interest in and collect Native American artifacts and have more shells in my Florida home than I should admit. I am interested in signing up for some guided trips to fossil hunt in VA, MD or SWFL and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction. I'm glad to have come across this group and look forward to seeing all of your great finds.
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Hello everyone! I was originally going to go to the Mine in Maysville NC this weekend and look for Teeth but I’m pretty sure they will call it off due to the bad weather they had. I also thought about going to GMR but they flood very easy and I don’t know if the water will be down by Thur. Or Friday. Can anyone help me with any spots that might be good within a 3 hour drive of Virginia Beach. Or if anyone reading this lives near Greenville and have any news on the water levels at the park or the bridge could you please let me know?! Thanks in advance! -Holly
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I have recently found a triassic red bed site in Virginia. It was in the hot and dry environment of that time. 200+ mya. A lot of rocks have been bull dozed into a pile by idiots. Red beds rocks were the realm of Triassic reptiles. Wish me luck.
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Greetings from the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA. I just discovered this forum when I was searching online in an attempt to ID some fossils I found yesterday. The first time I ever came across a fossil on the beach was two years ago during my first trip to Flag Ponds Nature Park in Maryland. I found maybe 10 tiny shark teeth. Even though I grew up in Maryland (close to DC) and lived less than an hour's drive from the Chesapeake Bay, I'd never really visited the western shore of the Bay and was ignorant of the stories that the cliffs and waters there had to tell. Last year, I discovered Brownies Beach and made two trips there last year, once in the spring and once in the fall. This year, I made one trip to Brownies and just yesterday, made my second ever trip to Flag Ponds. That's literally the extent of any fossil hunting I've ever done. As you see, I have very little experience, but I think it's fair to say that the bug has bit me and I now have a lingering fascination with the natural history of the area and the creatures that once roamed there. So far, I've only ever found tiny or smaller fossils-- tiny teeth, small bits of bone, and many, many questionable bits that I've kept until I've determined if they are "bone or stone." I'd really like to find some nice sized teeth this year, like a mako or hemi (or...dare I dream...bigger!) and hopefully some interesting bones. I'm looking forward to meeting you all, learning, and sharing! From yesterday:
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Still too hot and buggy for hunting the creek in the woods, so headed over to a local beach where I have been finding only 5 or so weathered teeth per trip, but usually find pieces of fossil whale bone, and lots of non-fossil stuff (lots of what was once metal, once glass, brick and pottery shards, modern shells, and some old but not conversant in shells, and flotsam. 30 years ago teeth were more common, guess they are more picked over nowadays? At least hunting is pleasant, even when muggy and hot there is usually a nice breeze off the River. The water was very cloudy despite finally dry days, will try the beach again in the water once it clears. Usually don't bother to post the beach stuff, but today found a nice cowshark tooth in good shape with an intact root. Don't remember ever finding one there before?
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Hey guys, my 6 year old son is incredibly into dinosaurs, other prehistoric animals, and, more recently, megalodon. He's said, for about the past 6 months, that he wants to be a paleontologist when he gets older. I'd like to continue to foster his love of science, biology, and paleontology by taking him on some fossil hunting trips and digs up and down the east coast. However, I have no idea where to begin. Any recommendations on some great places to go within about 5 hours of Richmond, Va? Also are there any places in the US where you can actually go and dig, find, and potentially keep legitimate dinosaur fossils or are all of those sites closed and/or you are unable to keep. Thank you
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I have found a few well preserved Ecphora Gardenrae around Calvert Cliffs, Maryland but nothing substantial. I also managed to find some large pieces of Ecphora so I decided to purchase the following large Ecphora Gardenrae, the state fossil of Maryland, from a dealer that is local (Virginia). This was found from the St. James river and is from the Miocene. The second to largest was found along Calvert Cliffs, Maryland and the smallest is also from Calvert Cliffs. Beautiful specimens. Both of the purchased shells are from sites that are now off limits to collecting. Sadly a lot of good sites are now closed.
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Been a while and really wanted to see what all the rain had done to my favorite spots. Best was silted in worse than before (guess I'll wait until Fall). There were shells washed out everywhere, and lots of sifting through shells, pebbles and sand yielded what I usually find, maybe more split teeth than usual (no idea why?) and more tilly bones, and lots of croc? teeth(?) with patches of flaking enamel. The humidity was unusually low so I spent a long time (five hours) hunting and didn't feel like I was finding that much, but the quantity turned out to be pretty good. Two cowshark pieces, three angel shark teeth, One weird pathological tooth (?; near penny), a narrow mako/ great white tooth(?) (too heavy and broad for a sand tiger tooth, but has a small cusp or two), a sting ray barb, a nice vertebra, and a bonito nose, not common here. Picked up a lot of what I thought were drum teeth, but after drying only about a dozen had the glossy top and hollow bottom.
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Does anyone know what the creek going through the campus of William and Mary is called? I hear it has a lot of fossils.
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Does anyone know? I hear there's many fossils there. On all of the maps, though, there's no name for the creek. I know it's random, but I just want to try hunting there with a friend. Thanks! ~RiseOfTheExtinct -
I recently found this at Westmoreland State Park (Virginia) near the Potomac River. It just looked weird to me so I kept it. I'm fairly new to fossil hunting so I am unsure if it is a fossil. Thanks you in advance for any help!
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Okay, so I had some free time while I was working in the mid Atlantic States so I decided to sneak in a quick collecting trip to Virginia. I’m hoping someone can tell me what type of Trilo this is before I prep it out. It’s my winter project i also have a question on ID for another Trilo imprint I found earlier this summer but haven’t had a chance to post it. This one is from New York, it was a random road cut that I stopped at to have some lunch and happened to notince these in the rocks....of course I brought them home! Pictures to follow These are the two pieces from New York
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Going through the stuff in my bucket that had dried out from my last trip, found more stuff that I can only guess what they might be. The first three are of a tiny disc with holes along the periphery. The next two are of three pieces of a flat discoid "rock", that was more fragile than i thought, looks like from something alive. Last two seem too light for bone, so I'm guessing sponges? Probably some of you will know (penny = 0.75 inches or 19 mm in diameter): Thanks!
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After heavy rains for the past week, was hoping stuff would be re-arranged in my creek and new stuff would be visible. The reverse happened; my favorite spots were silted and sanded in. Much of the creek bed had changed water flow, and hardly any of the usual shells were visible just sand everywhere. Good to be hunting again. Most of the frogs were gone (probably eaten) but saw a few fearless ones. So did some digging and screening; nothing big, a bonito nose, a small skate stinger, vertebrae, some broken cow shark teeth, lots of drum teeth, three or four angelshark teeth, and rare (for me) a small rough tiger shark tooth. More rain predicted for the next week, more exploring for me.
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Any idea what this could be from? Thanks
