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I just bought this for about ten bucks because I've been looking for a reseonably priced ( or better yet cheap) great white, as well as an angustidens (think I found one) and a chubutensis. Now I probably should have asked before I bought, but is this really a great white? Just want to make sure because I'm not great with the shark teeth IDs yet, especially with the white and the chronospecies with carcharocles. Sellers pictures, don't know what subforum this goes in. Bone valley btw.

Greetings friends. Of the many, many fossils I've exposed here, this is the first I've seen any material like this. I hope the pics can capture it, it is actually near snow white. Its pearly white, has an apparent directional grain to it, is loosely layered and is very fragile. It can be scratched/scraped,dug up with a tooth pick. Is there a common name or process associated with this material ? This has filled the void left by a shell. Very cool. Puts you in mind of an actual deteriorated shell. Thanks.

I just got this interesting white shark tooth, it was found somewhere on the west coast of South Africa. It has beautiful wavy edges, and looks to represent an early example of either escheri or hubbelli/carcharias. Id love to hear some thoughts on what lineage this tooth would be from given its location. Also, what species would you assign it to? cheers!

Saw this on eBay today, not mine, any idea what it is?

Maybe some type of Brachiopod, or Coral

If you have any clue what this could be, please let me know . Found in Michigan, in our creek buried in sand. I thought it was a bone. I see a hole, then something more inside the hole. I tried posting the best pictures. There is one picture that I got the rock wet. It also looks reddish? Thank you.

Hello my name is Rhonda I am new to this site. I am from Michigan. I believe I found some fossil hash. Can someone please help me identify some of the things you see. Thank you.. I have more pictures too.

So I was walking around a parking lot made out of limestone rocks (lots of shell and plant fossils in those) and wandered across this oddity. Looks like a piece of poop but it is slightly pliable? I can push my nail into it and slightly bend it so I'm not sure what it is.

I'm not sure where to post this, but figured this board was the most suitable. Here's a great white I drew a few of years ago. I might try to draw a few extinct species next.

Wow, let me tell you, today was an interesting day. I headed out to Douglas Point for the first time today(been to Purse several times) and man did I get a hand full. When we first arrived at the beach it was pretty choppy and a little windy. We made it past the first set of cliffs and found some beach and started searching. Thats when the wind picked WAY up. We kept moving and heading down the beach fighting violent waves and making our way through deep water with big waves with only hip boots on. lets just say we got a little wet, not the best thing to do in the middle of February. After a mile of walking or so we realized we wouldn't be able to make it back the way we came and our only option was to make it all the way to Purse and walk up the trail there to the road and then back to Douglas Point where we parked. Fortunately with all the wave action we were able to still find some teeth. Found some interesting material that I believe to be Scutes? Need to look it up haha. It wasn't until we made it back to the car that my Dad showed me he found his first PaleoCarcharodon! A little small but really not too bad of shape. It was a learning experience for sure. Feel free to jump in and help me with a little ID. Also took a few macro pics, enjoy! Boneheadz

Sorry I'm late to the party fellas! Here are my pics from our hunt. Please follow the link back to the original thread for pics of the my white meg and cusped meg finds!!! http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/44553-florida-sifting/page-2

Show your patriotic fervor with Red white and blue fossils. I'll start with these Sharktooth hILL bEAUTIES!

So I doodled on down to Aurora on Friday (8/31/12). My parents had come to visit and since I'm always yammering about fossils I decided to show them what it was all about. They loved it. My mom's first outting produced a Carcharocles angustidens tooth with the corner broken off, a nice lil modern mako and a cow shark lower (Notorrhynchus primigenius). I found my first dolphin tooth, first squalodon tooth and a nice modern tiger. In all reality, I think I had a hemipristis magnet on me! LOL! My dad did well. Finding all kinds of various teeth and some nice shark vert disks. He also found a very tiny dolphin tooth and my husband as well. Hubby found a Catticus to boot. And we both found a couple little thresher teeth which according to the museum director have gotten scarce there. He found a nice pathalogical tooth that appears to be sand tiger. I found a nice fish vert and some sand tigers that looked perfect (until I pulled them out of the dirt). We all know how that goes!!! I love the little stuff too. I found the tiniest sand tiger in my collection and it is nearly perfect! And, the smallest hemipristis I've ever come across. And of course as always a handful of the copper, smooth hammerhead, lemon, silky shark teeth. As well as a couple bull shark teeth. I did find a stumper. It looks like a sharpnosed tooth (Rhizoprionodon sp.) but the front of the tooth has huge "horns" coming from the root, throwing me off. And I ran into MikeDOTB. It was a pleasure and I have to say THANKS AGAIN MIKE!!!! Well I will post a few pictures now!

I read on the forum here last week about the possibility of a landfill operation going in at St. Clair at or near the white fern fossil site. I decided it was time for me to make a trip from my home in the Harrisburg PA suburbs and head north on I-81 to St. Clair on Saturday. I had never been to St. Clair for the fern fossils. I got off 81 at the St. Clair/Rt 61 exit and drove down the mountain to St. Clair. I found the street that I needed to turn on that would take me to the mining company property. Burma Rd goes up the mountain there and then I started looking for the parking area at the trail. I found it on the 2nd try and pulled in. There was a man and his wife who were getting their backpacking equipment out of their SUV when I pulled in. I asked them if I had the right place for the fern fossils and he said yes. We got to talking and one of us mentioned Fossil Forum and realized we were all members here. He is Hitekmastr and his wife Nancy. They finished getting their gear together and were ready to hike on the trail back to the mine. As they left I started to get my gear together, made sure I had all my tools, my water bottles and other stuff that I would need. I was now ready for my hike. I started hiking on the trail, made my left turn on the other trail to start the 750 yard hike to the mine. I was excited to be there and couldn't wait to see the fern fossils for myself. When I got back to the mine I caught up with Hytecmastr & Nancy & she had already found a small fern fossil by her feet. They decided to go off in one direction and I started hiking down the gully and up the other side. I hiked quite a distance and decided to stop and start looking. I found some on the surface & they weren't really good. I decided to go back to where I came in and look around there since several seams come to the surface there. I found a spot to dig and started digging. I was finding good ferns. Most of the ferns that you will see were from my spot here. It was hot & humid on Saturday, and I'm digging & thinking why am I doing this on such a hot day? I think we all ask that question of ourselves at times. I found quite a few very nice ferns, and I found some plates that were all white. Interesting. I was there for about 2 hours and then decided I had enough for my collection. The sky was starting to cloud up a bit and I didn't want to get stuck back there in a storm. So I packed up my stuff and started hiking back up the trail. I was about half way up this trail when I heard a noise. I stopped to listen and heard it again. It sounded like a bear cub. It's a sound I've heard before. I looked in the direction it was coming from but didn't see anything. The bushes and trees are really dense along the one side of the trail. I saw a huge rhododendron starting to shake about 20 ft away. The bear was still making noises. I thought if that is a bear cub then that means momma is nearby. I started hiking really fast up the trail and kept looking back but I didn't see anything. I don't want any close encounters! I made it back to my car and took a break and drank some more water. It was hot! I put my gear in the car and started heading back down to St. Clair. I stopped to get something to munch on and then started back on my way home. I had a successful trip and I was happy. I got some ferns!!Here I am at the mine.Here's my digging spot.