Rappahannock creek hunting

[Rowboater]

Lots of competition in the summer, and while it's good to see kids out hunting, they have destroyed a few of my favorite spots, and my shark teeth numbers have dropped.  But they seem oblivious to everything but shark teeth.  Had an interesting trip lately, some teeth the kids missed, but mostly other stuff.  Numbers down, but diversity up! (Size is always an issue there).

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Top left: cowshark teeth pieces and one with a huge oblique root (but only one spike?)  top, center and right, skate denticles,  

two verts, some teeth and bryozoans(?)

more teeth, on right, three angel shark, two sandtiger parasymphyseals(?)

teeth, a weird "three headed" thing? (have others from earlier), just below that a small hard-to-photograph 3D object

more, some colorful, teeth, in center a broken Tilly bone, showing concentric calcium deposition rings, to the right a puffer plate, bonito nose and tiny ecphora,

@Shellseeker two unbroken tilly bones (more like the two types I usually find), tiny piece of coral

four drum teeth, two tiny mako, and a perfect red 1" mako (made the trip special, hadn't see one in a while) 

 

[Darktooth]

Nice haul! You even have a dolphin /porpoise earbone.

[Shellseeker]

1 hour ago, Darktooth said:

Nice haul! You even have a dolphin /porpoise earbone.

The earbone might be Pomatodelphis sp.  I have found tilly bones in those shapes , but would need to see some isolated photos.

[Rowboater]

Hard to scan but found a second (and think I have a few more somewhere).  Hopefully clear enough.

 

[Rowboater]

@Darktooth @Shellseeker  Thanks for your help IDing this stuff!

[sixgill pete]

that little red mako looks gorgeous. can we see good pics of both sides of it?

[Rowboater]

@sixgill pete  Easier said than done!  Difficult to scan the more rounded side, plus a scratch more obvious now (from drying?)  Plus a weird little tooth.

 

[Fossildude19]

Great finds!  

I've missed seeing the fruits of your labors.  

[sixgill pete]

That is a gorgeous little C. hastalis. That in itself is a trip maker. The "odd" little tooth is is Odontocete  a.k.a. dolphin. 

Your cowshark tooth with only one "spike" is an upper parasymphyseal tooth. It would have been the first tooth to the left or the right of the centerline of the jaw. Always a great tooth to find. 

[Rowboater]

@sixgill pete  Thanks for the IDs!  Had no idea that was an upper parasymphysial cowshark.  Guess always looking for the more obvious lower symphyseal!  Intact cowshark teeth are rare where I mostly hunt.  I haven't been out much lately, hopefully less pressure on the beaches now.  Been fishing a lot, but nothing compared to last year.