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Quick recount of my best hunt to date in the Summerville area. There is a pond that has produced some of the best fossils in my collection originating from, likely, the Chandler Bridge Formation, but it is an abnormal lense for sure. The pond banks were re-graded in this past October, so I had a hunch the first big rain would cause a lot of new erosion and expose some really good stuff. Boy was I right! In the first washout I checked (my personal favorite one) I found a nice vert, a stunning atlas (my first) and a gorgeous croc tooth (also my first). With these in tow I walked back to my truck to drop them off for safe keeping. After safely getting them to the truck, I went back and hopped in another washout, immediately coming across an intact ray plate. At this point I couldn't believe my luck! I decided to quickly run this back to the truck as well. As I was on my way to the truck I passed another collector headed towards the pond. After dropping the plate off at the truck, I quickly got back to the pond. The other collector was in the washout I had just grabbed the plate out of not even 2 minutes earlier. I then jumped into the next washout down and just had to laugh when I saw ANOTHER ray plate staring back at me. \ I took it back to the truck too and left for the day. I was in shock. My friends always tell me I'm lucky and hunts like this certainly don't hurt their case. Hopefully someday I'll have an even better hunt, but I certainly can't complain about this one! Hope ya'll enjoyed the quick story and the awesome fossils!
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From the album: Sonickmonx's South Carolina Finds
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From the album: Sonickmonx's South Carolina Finds
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I’ve got a a couple of what I think are some fossils/bones that I come across quite often in my searches and was wondering if people could help identify what they are! I believe the long skinny pieces are ray plates, but I do not know what the rest are. The small tooth looking item has a hollow ish cavity and small indents along the side. Thank you!!
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Trying to remember a site - La Plata MD beach on the Chesapeake?
ebfossilhound posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi all - I’m trying to remember a site I went to a long time ago. It was with a Delaware Rock & Mineral group to a spot that I think was called La Plata? La Plata is a town in Maryland but I’m not sure of the specific site nearby. I think it was a pebbly beach-like site on the Chesapeake that had a lot of ray mouth plate fossils. Does anyone know where this might be? -
Got out early to Douglas Point on the Potomac river, unfortunately the water was high, rough, and dark. Didn’t find much but I managed the biggest and most complete ray plate I’ve ever found and a decent croc tooth with some great umber color to it!
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I made a trip out to Douglas Point today and had one of those incredible fossil days that just makes you want to head out over and over again. There were two cars in the lot already when I arrived early this morning but their occupants must have been up to something else because I never saw them and I had the beach all to myself for most of the day. It was a chilly but beautiful morning on the banks of the Potomac. There's just no better sight at Douglas Point than a nice Otodus obliquus tooth waiting for you in the sand. And that wasn't the only one -- as it says in the thread title, today was an Otodus kind of day. #3 #4 #5 Yep, still going -- #6, which was in the best shape: And finally, lucky #7, which I found on somewhat higher and drier ground: I didn't only find Otodus today. There were also quite a few nice and sharp sand tigers. I often find large Striatolamia striata roots with broken crowns. But this one was complete! It doesn't hit the magical 2-inch mark, but at 1.7 inches, it is my largest sand tiger find to date. You can't tell in the photo, but the blade is sharp and the tooth is in quite good condition. I found another tooth that at 1.5 inches is also quite large, though this one's more river worn. Beyond shark teeth, I found a nice ray plate. There were also beautiful butterflies. All in all, it was a rather splendid day!
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Hi all, Long time no post for me (mostly because I haven't been out collecting). I did get out this past weekend though with my young son for a quick hunt and we found a fun mixed bag of things. No big teeth (just the usual small ones) but we did find a few unique pieces that I thought I'd share. They are as follows: 1.) Tuna hyplural (tail bone) 2.) Crab carapace 3.) 2 x mostly complete ray mouth plates 4.) 1 x Cetacean bone with predation marks I still love finding big teeth but always fun to get some variety mixed in too. The teeth can wait for next time. :-) Happy hunting to all.
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I found this shark tooth at a beach near St. Augustine. I have no clue what species it came from. It kind of looks like a goblin shark, but it also looks like the front tooth of a longfin mako. I have no knowledge of fossils and stuff, I just like to collect them because they look cool. Also, is the object on the right (in the last picture) a ray mouth plate? It was found on the same beach as the shark tooth was.
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So I decided to venture outside of my comfort zone of Calvert Cliffs and head over to the Potomac at Purse State park. Low tide was right around 5pm so i decided to head over around 1 and walk for a while. I figured that since I was going late in the day that I would have lots of company on the beach. Well I was wrong on on having company on the beach and on the amount of time I would need to preform a good search. I got to the parking lot and empty I quickly got on my gear and made the mile hike down to the beach. I was very happy to see that there were no footprints anywhere the water was low and super calm. I decided to head to the north first and was very happy to find 2 crocodile teeth because not many are found at my normal stomping grounds. I then decided to fill up a bag of shells for mom because she loves shells and there was an abundance at this beach. I then turned my attention to the south and was rewarded with a pristine otodus and a nice paraorthacodus clarkii a nice cretolamna and some other fantastic teeth my knowledge of the paleocene is not as it is on the miocene. Well i walked all the way to the point when i noticed the sun starting to disappear and realized i still had a 1/2 mile walk back to the trail and another mile back to my truck. I could have spent another 4 hours searching well i will know better for next time. I have also included my past couple of trips along the cliffs my best finds from over there were a couple of stunning ecphoras, a few megalodons, and a hadrodelphis that is my first all in all february has been treating me very well.
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I helped take a trip out on the Virginia side of the Potomac today, and despite the high water, plenty was found. I finally got to meet @SailingAlongToo and Mrs. SA2...great people! The storms offshore have the water in the bay backed up to the point that there was never a true low tide, but thanks to the north winds, the waves stirred up plenty for the folks to find...I even took a couple of finds home as well! High water didn't deter these fossil hunters! One of the kids stepped on this in front of me...I quickly called him back and gave it to him after taking this picture. Pretty Hemi got stirred up A frag that was given to one of the fossil hunters Another little Meg frag that I gave away. I did find something I kept though...plenty of footprints around this gem, I'm surprised no one found it. Also found my first upper cow shark tooth...always have to keep your first! Here's the two I kept at home
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Went out to Purse the other day with my girlfriend, its been way too long since I last got out. Tides and water level have not been good lately. I just bought my girlfriend a new pair of hip boots and she's been itching to use them. 80 bucks at Cabela's which i didnt think was too bad at all. It was a beautiful day and the tide was surprisingly low with a good bit of wave action. Found some cool stuff including what looks a like a goblin tooth to me with a elongated root. Boneheadz
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So what else to do on a 70 degree day in Feb walk the beach of course. The water was high and the wind was whipping but i managed to scratch out a few nice teeth and the coloring on the mako is wild!!!
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From the album: Sharktooth Hill
Pretty Cool Miocene Partial Ray Crushing Plate....the only one I've collected so far.....Found this on the Rob Ernst property @ the East Quarry....Very cool dig area.
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