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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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Xiphactinus?
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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I had a good NSR hunt with my buddy Mick who put me to shame again lol. I did find a nice variety of items and had a good time. Here's some pics of my finds. I even found a lucky horseshoe. It was a little muddy and hot. I started the day off with waders and ended the day in shorts & water shoes.
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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2015 afforded to the opportunity to add some very nice new Cretaceous items to my collection from here in North Carolina. North Carolina offers several different formations of Cretaceous goodies. The Black Creek Group includes the Tarheel, Bladen and Donoho Creek Formations, all Campanian. Then of course there is the PeeDee, deposited during the Maastrichtian. This post will be photo heavy so it will take several posts from me to get everything in. First some of the Echinoids. These two Hardounia mortonis came from a sand pit in Pender County and are from the PeeDee Formation. Note that there are spines on both sides of these. Many of the echinoids from this location are exceptionally preserved. Next are Schizaster variabilis. These are the first 3 of this species that I have found, so they were welcome additions, also from the PeeDee Formation. One of these came from a location on the North East Cape Fear river, the others from the Brunswick River.
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
Xiphactinus lower jaw with 14 tooth sockets and partial teeth. -
I had a good day fossil hunting North Sulphur River creeks. I found Xiphactinus jaw pieces, skull bones, Mosasaur verts and what I think is a worn Mosasaur or Plesiosaur bone. The large jawbone has 14 sockets for teeth and 6 partial teeth.
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I found this tooth on a recent collecting trip to the Cretaceous of North Mississippi, which would have been part of the Mississippi Embayment during the time. I found many enchodus and shark's teeth, but this one is different then both of them. It does not have the striations that the encodes teeth have, and it is a completely different shape than the shark's teeth, so the only thing I can think of is Xiphactinus. Particularly it looks like X. vetus to me, but I thought that audax was the only species I should see in this area. I am not a fish expert, so I thought I would post here and get some further opinions. The pictures I posted have a couple of encodes and sharks teeth in the mix as well for comparison.
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Over Memorial Day weekend, member Grokfish (Matt) and I were able to hunt a spectacular bit of chalk he has access to. We had a great time and the weather wasn't too bad either. This is my half of the trip:
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From the album: Most of my collection
Here is a comparison of the tooth with that of a Plesiosaur tooth from North Africa (purchased material). The find is Late Cretaceous, Campanian. The first ever reported instance of a Plesiosaur or Xiphactinus tooth to be found on Tennessee soil. Collected April 26th 2014. -
From the album: Most of my collection
Badly decomposed before preservation. This is the first reported instance of a Pliesiosaur or Xiphactinus tooth to be found on Tennessee soil. Collected April 26th 2014. -
From the album: Most of my collection
Badly decomposed before preservation. This is the first reported instance of a Plesiosaur or Xiphactinus tooth to be found on Tennessee soil. Collected on April 26th 2014. -
From the album: Most of my collection
Badly decomposed before preservation. This is the first recorded instance of a Plesiosaur or Xiphactinus tooth to be found on Tennessee soil. Late Cretaceous, Campanian. Collected April 26th 2014. -
I've been working on these for a while now and I'd like your opinion. Should I keep the jaws out of the rock? Just repair the teeth but don't put them in a new slab? Or Repair the teeth and place in a slab? Here is a similar example of tooth repair and placement: Let me hear your thoughts! -Kris (KansasFossilHunter)
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On Saturday, November 16th a friend and I drove out to one of our favorite hunting sites in Gove county, KS. I had found fragments of pectoral fin and operculum elements (from a Xiphactinus) several months ago and wanted to further investigate the site. We took turns digging into the solid chalk for about 4 hours, before I uncovered what looked to be the dentary of the fish. The piece was incredibly crushed and slightly root damaged, so I coated it in several layers of Butvar. Sadly, many of the teeth broke but can probably be saved. To be continued in next post--
