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Shark Vertebra (possibly Otodus/Carcharocles auriculatus or angustidens) from the New Bern Quarry in North Carolina
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1.5 inch lamnid type shark vertebra in matrix from the New Bern quarry. Not sure if this is from the Oligocene River Bend Formation or the Eocene Castle Hayne Formation. If you think you recognize which formation this is from, leave a comment.-
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Went hunting yesterday. There were not many choices with the water deep and currents fast. I was pleased to know that @Balance was out there dealing with the same conditions. It was cool but not cold with a 5 mm wetsuit on. I went back to a spot I had been digging over months because I believed it would be chest deep. I had intermittent downpours with the last ending around noon. I covered the cockpit of my Kayak with a tarp made expressly for that purpose. Everything else into hatches. The lowest water was chest deep so I could only dig down 6 inches or so. It was enough. In the 2nd sieve , I got a Tridactyl horse periotic, likely Nannippus. 32 x 19 mm, One for your local disk, Jp Even though fewer keepers based on the water depth, some very nice unique finds: A Glyptodon edge osteoderm, Alligator tooth, a few nice Tiger and Bull shark teeth. Here are some for comments and ID A shark vert, largest I have ever found. I found one that looks the same , only smaller 4 months ago. Curious that I have found 3 at this location and no different looking shark verts. Although very difficult to identify individual shark verts this one seems most similar to Hammerhead, I find a few but not many, Hammerhead teeth. A couple of broken fossils that I am not sure of 1. Stingray dermal 2. Alligator osteoderm A tooth fragment: Even the broken , are interesting
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From the album: Sonickmonx's South Carolina Finds
I love finding Lamniform vertebra and this is my largest and nicest. -
The child in me doesn’t like working on my birthday, so I like to take the day off to try to get out on the beach for a hunt. We had some crazy weather the days before with wind gusts up to 60mph! It had my hopes high to find myself a large tooth for my birthday. So yesterday me and my girlfriend got up early to kayak out on the bay to watch the sunrise before going to the cliff to start our hunt. It was a beautiful morning and the water was nice and calm, it’s hard to believe there was 6 foot waves not but a day and a half before. Once we land, after only about 15 minutes on the beach and I find an amazing 1.79” megalodon! And before I could catch up with my girlfriend to show her, I spot a really nice 1.72” hastalis tumbling in the water! We continue on with the finds slowing down after passing some fellow fossil hunters on the beach, but still finding some nice smaller teeth in the wash. I found another decent hastalis right as we turned around and a really nice shark vertebra before we got back to the kayaks. It was a great morning and I can’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. I may not have got that big tooth I’ve been hunting for, but I definitely can’t complain the the great haul I ended up with! Thanks for reading, see y’all next time!
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From the album: Shark Fossil collection
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I'm quite used to finding small fish vertebra from these small sized fish coprolites @GeschWhat from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. But this one below has more of a shark vertebra appearance, or are there different variations of fish vertebrae. All vertebrae measuring between 2 and 3 millimetres. This one below is also a fish vertebra.
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From the album: Sharks
A shark centrum from the North Sulfur River.-
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I went to Brownies for the first time last Saturday. It was beautiful as the water was completely blown out by the Nor'easter storm of the day before. There were trees down everywhere along the roads near the park. I didn't find much, just a few tiny teeth because of how the water was blown out. So I went back today and was thrilled to find one shark vertebra & two other vertebrae. One looks like it is from a fish. The third is unknown to me. Do you remember the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Harrison Ford gets into the fight with the guy with the sword & he blows him away with his gun? Well that is how I felt when I came across another fossil hunter & we chatted about our finds & I showed him my shark vertebra. I was so proud until he pulls out a whale vertebra as big as my hand!! I was dying inside, but I also had to laugh because I was so busted. If he is reading this right now, I was awed by your find. I went on to find some nice teeth, shells & two tiny Ecphora.
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A Very Large Cretaceous Shark Vertebra From The Mount Laurel Formation
njfossilhunter posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
My Friend from Texas was once living and working in New Jersey some nearly 13 years ago. While on a fossil hunting trip to Rammanssin brook he spotted something in the wall of the Mount Laurel Formation and seen this shark vertebra partially exposed ,,insitu .. just saying here I am. Well when he showed me this vertebra,,,,My jaw just dropped to the floor,,,,I just couldn't believe such a large shark vert could come out of any N.J. Formation and I remembered being at the M.A.P.S collection and seeing big shark vert's in the collection from N.J. but these where about six in association to each other and was just about this size as well,,,maybe a little bigger. Well My Best Ever Buddy in the whole Wide World finally gave me his prize find from NJ. and Is now one of my prize N.J. fossils in my collection. Here is a picture of my new baby....Ain't she beautiful......