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Found a few teeth not sure what they are. The biggest teeth in the photos are just under an inch (~2.4 cm). I thought the first was a big lemon shark tooth, but it clearly isn't (no serrations, blade slightly broader than the teeth below). Ventral mako? Both sides shown: The second I'm hoping is an upper cowshark, but not as weird and twisted as usual:
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The tiger shark teeth I find (not many) are generally flat. This small one has a thickened root on one side, and is roughly triangular with two "faces" on one blade side. Just curious if really a tiger shark tooth and where positionally might be from? Photos (not great but hopefully enough to ID): Flat side, "projecting" side, bottom, top, one face of projecting side, other face.
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I find a fair amount of medium sized verts. This one is different. It is about one inch wide and high, and about 2 inches long (2.5 cm X 2.5 cm X 5 cm). Wat's different is that it is encased in supporting fossilized bone(?) with the ventral blood vessel passage clearly visible. The dorsal part is unfortunately damaged. The cephalic vertebra is much bigger than the caudal vert, as I interpret (quite possibly I'm wrong). But more interesting than the isolated verts I usually find. Anyone have any idea what type of animal this came from?
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Shark tooth, two jaw bone pieces(?) and a worm/ leech(?) IDs please
Rowboater posted a topic in Fossil ID
For scale the smaller "jaw" piece in the center with four "sockets" is 1" ( 2.5 cm). I thought the shark tooth (with big flat base root) was a cow shark, but seems too big? Have no clue what this slug/ worm, leech-like thing is. I dropped it on a hard tile floor and lost a small piece of the end (opposite the more interesting "antennae" on the other end.) It is hard, black fossilized. The more rounded side ("top") has a center line. The more flat side, also with center line, looks almost muscular, although could be six or more similarly sized weathered segments? Neat. The "jaw bones" are a few that I occasionally find. The longer one seems to have two rows of tooth sockets(?), about two dozen but no obvious teeth. The uglier one has four bigger or flatter sockets or segments. Any IDs would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Sorry for the scanner pics, been a nightmare lately.
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Pickings at the beaches are still slim lately (a few coprolite burrows), and I haven't been out as much as I would like. Here are some of my findings from my last four trips or so to the fresh water creek I hunt. There is at least one weird thing that I will probably post in the ID section; not sure it's a fossil, could be part of a leaf or an arthropod, looks fragile. My prizes are a 2"+ mako (blade is in good shape, root is there but rough) and another cow shark tooth (I thought I counted 7 points but not clear in the photo. Several angel shark and drum teeth. A few rough teeth, bones (maybe Tilly bones in a few cases). A skate scute and two small vertebrae. A bunch of small spikes (a couple with matrix attached?) and triangular teeth. Always nice to be out. The water's super cold from the snow melt but NO competition, and always great to be out in the woods.
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Although I haven't been beach hunting much this winter (fishing was great until a few weeks ago), I rooted around for my shrimp coprolite burrows. Lately I have been finding less of the cylindrical 1-3" long burrows and more broken pieces. @Carl @GeschWhat are the experts on these things, and lately I've found more of them on the beachs than shark teeth (Covid-19 opened the interest in beach combing so more competition for teeth.) Difficult to get much resolution, even enhancing the contrast, but this is a scan of most of my collection:
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@GeschWhat @Carl It has been cold, but the shrimp (callianassid) coprolite burrows I find have been relatively plentiful (more than decent sized shark teeth) with recent strong north winds and low tides. One puzzle to me is the variation in diameter of the burrows. Carl, our expert, believes the coprolites just sank and deposited in burrows (at another site I have found a few steinkerns with similar, sparser deposits. ) All of the burrows I have found on the Rapp beach have been cylindrical, or possibly pieces of cylinders (of course, this could be bias in my collecting, but I examine lots of stuff!) Usually the coprolite deposits are thicker on one side (the bottom?) of the burrow. If the burrows are truly made by the callianassids (Carl says no, others may argue) I expect the coprolites in the big burrows to be bigger than those in the smaller burrows. I have collected enough to get a tentative answer, but need to align by brightness for comparison photos (some burrows and coprolites are very light, some are dark). Here is what I have collected so far:
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These are some of the better mako teeth I found over the last year (mostly in the winter). Will be sending the prettiest ones to Singapore. My Singaporean friends have no shark teeth or fossils.
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I find a lot of broken teeth, but this one is reasonably intact. Almost an inch long, almost four-sided with two flatter sides, root rectangular with circular hole in center, enamel dull extending almost half-way from the (broken) tip. (cell phone and scanner didn't help much).
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Any public hunting spots on the rappahannock or pamunkey?
FossilsAnonymous posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Recently I have been really wanting to find those gorgeous tannin-browned teeth up in the pamunkey or rappahannock river. I was wondering if you guys knew any public spots.... Thanks, FA -
Any where along Rappahannock river to find teeth?
Northern Neck posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hey guys, is it anywhere along the Rappahannock river anyone knows of to find sharks teeth? I know Westmoreland state park on the Potomac has some. But just curious if the Rappahannock river produces any? If so message me in my inbox please. Saw some videos online of nice makos found in streams but not sure where they found them in Virginia at. Thanks in advance -
Returned to the US after six months and headed to some favored spots for shark tooth hunting. Unfortunately everything was silted/sanded over. While I picked up some "whale bone" unearthed and left behind by others, shark teeth were in short supply and very small. Are these small teeth just small specimens of the larger ones, or are some different species? The serrations unfortunately don't show up well on my scanned pictures.
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Fun hunting off the Rappahannock River in Virginia for a final trip before heading back to Singapore (will give away teeth; few there have seen any). No major finds (I do like the bonita nose, not common in my spots) but lots of small teeth and unfortunately broken ones that could have been nice. As others have noted the beach areas here are picked over until the next good storm, so I did a lot of digging and sifting, and even there I think I was reworking areas that had been combed pretty hard. Some areas were very productive (2-4 teeth per colander full), others not (one decent tooth every three or four colander fulls). I picked up a lot of interesting non-shark teeth stuff to sort through later. Good to be hunting, but the biting flies were annoying.
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One more ID please, a friend sent the following two pictures to me and is wanting to know if anyone can confirm this as a fulgurite. Thanks!
