blizzardstorm06 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Scientific Name: Carcharocles megalodon Geologic Age: Miocene clay Location: Southern Maryland, USA Date: April 19, 2020 I love searching our creek for interesting finds. Last summer we started discovering large fossilized scallops. Then recently I started finding various shark teeth and ray plates. I was thrilled to reach down and pull up a megalodon from the creek for the first time. It is about 3.5 inches long, slightly longer on the other side. My parents helped me document this find here, it's our first time posting and we think this is the right place for the contest, if not, we are sorry! 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Wow! Great looking tooth! i think you meant to post it in the find of the month category though. @digit or @Fossildude19 or one of the mods will probably be along and move it soon enough. welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Welcome to the Fossil Forum! That is a very nice megalodon tooth! You are indeed fortunate to have a site that yields such fossils on your property. If you post photos of some of the scallops and other shells, people here may be able to tell you the geological formation and age for your finds. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 whoa...amazing find! www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 33 minutes ago, blizzardstorm06 said: My parents helped me document this find here, it's our first time posting and we think this is the right place for the contest, if not, we are sorry! Welcome to The Forum! It is an awesome find, but unfortunately, new members are not allowed to join and enter the contest. Make a few more posts as you look around TFF, and hopefully you will find something to qualify for next month's FOTM contest. 2 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Welcome to the forum from New York! That is a really nice tooth that you found! Congratulations! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Hello "Stormy" and welcome to TFF from Austin, Tx. That is a killer tooth. I'm anxious to see what else you've found - and will find! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokietech96 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 That is awesome! What great looking tooth. First, I would do about anything right now to have "our creek" in the backyard! Second, I would do anything anything to find a meg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Way to enter with a bang! That’s a top quality meg for Maryland, you should be very proud! Welcome to the forum from central Maryland! “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy B Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Beautiful tooth. A trophy for sure. I would bet it's closer to 4". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Golly! Look at those serrations! Wonderful tooth. @JohnJ how senior does someone have to be to enter? "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 @Ash They need to transition from the New Members group to the Regular Members group. It is a small threshold that helps keep the contest honest. 2 minutes ago, Ash said: @JohnJ how senior does someone have to be to enter? 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Beautiful tooth. Great find. Welcome to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlesteve Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 My back yard would quickly look like a strip mine if I found a tooth like that in it... Beats any I ever found hands down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Smashing find. Hello, and a very warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Excellent find! Welcome to the forum. Don't be discouraged. Make a few more posts to become a regular member and just keep searching your creek to find an even better one which you can then enter next month . Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardstorm06 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 (edited) - Edited April 29, 2020 by blizzardstorm06 new pic 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardstorm06 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 (edited) Sorry, I'm still getting the hang of this forum... This is what my dad and I found yesterday! I will get some pics with measurements. Thanks for letting us be involved, I love everything about nature, fossils, rocks, so this place really rocks! Thank you for your encouragement! Edited April 29, 2020 by blizzardstorm06 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I see no pictures of a megalodon tooth. Very nice Chesapectens. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 The tooth photos have now gone? Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokietech96 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokietech96 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I see them still. I copied and pasted the pic. can you see it @Tidgy's Dad @sixgill pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 1 minute ago, hokietech96 said: I see them still. I copied and pasted the pic. can you see it @Tidgy's Dad @sixgill pete Nope. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardstorm06 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 the teeth are at the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardstorm06 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 I don't get it, I can see the meg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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