Ludwigia Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 The weather was great today, so I hopped on the bike and headed off to check out a new museum in the area which was supposed to have opened up on April 1st, but I guess it must have been an April Fool's joke because it was closed. Well, actually we got locked down on Monday, so they weren't allowed to open the doors. I was just hoping, and anyway it was a nice day for a ride. It's a small branch of the well-known and much larger Hauff Museum in Holzmaden, so one of these days soon (hopefully), I'll drop in again to have a look around and talk shop with the proprietors. After I'd studied the closed doors and walked around the quaint old building a couple of times, I suddenely remembered that there was a shark tooth site not too far away which I hadn't visited for a dog's age, mainly because it wasn't nearly as productive as my site back near home. But, what the heck. Nothin' better to do and plenty of time on my hands. It wasn't as bad as I had expected, although the exposure has no obvious horizons, so you just have to scratch away hoping for good luck. Here's what I ended up with after a couple of hours. First, a mix of Carcharias, Mitsukurina and Carcharhinus. But the best one was this 2cm. Carcharias on matrix. Maybe I'll go back there again sometime. 3 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crankyjob21 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Probably sand tiger or that fossil goblin shark, Scapanorhynchus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 Scaphanorhynchus was already extinct by the time these teeth were deposited in the Miocene Burdigalian. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Nice teeth! Have you tried washing down the matrix to look for micro teeth? That might be interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everhardus Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 By coincidence i was reading about 3 quarry’s ( i think) where teeth can be found just up north where you live. Where you by any chance in one of these ? Shame most of them miss most of the root.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 4 hours ago, will stevenson said: Nice teeth! Have you tried washing down the matrix to look for micro teeth? That might be interesting I suppose that I could, but I'm not all that much interested in the small stuff. 1 hour ago, Everhardus said: By coincidence i was reading about 3 quarry’s ( i think) where teeth can be found just up north where you live. Where you by any chance in one of these ? Shame most of them miss most of the root.... Yes, I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about and I have visited them in the past. They are old sites, like Ursendorf, which are either no longer yielding teeth or else abandoned. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everhardus Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Yep Ursendorf was one of them... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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