LTLOL Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Hello and thank you for letting me join your forum. My name is Lindsey and today my family went to Big Brook in NJ for the first time, looking for some shark teeth. We found some interesting things and we've got no idea where to even start with identifying the things we bought home. Can you please point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance for your help and I hope you're all having a great week. Lindsey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Hello, Lindsay, and a jolly warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. If you post nice clear photos of your specimens, with a scale, in our Fossil Id section, members who know about shark's teeth will be only to happy to help out. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTLOL Posted September 7, 2021 Author Share Posted September 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Hello, Lindsay, and a jolly warm welcome to TFF from Morocco. If you post nice clear photos of your specimens, with a scale, in our Fossil Id section, members who know about shark's teeth will be only to happy to help out. Hello TD and thanks for the welcome. I'll get to work on those photos! Now, where did I put my scale/rule?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Welcome to the Forum. There are some websites dedicated to New Jersey fossil finds as well. LINK 1 LINK 2 LINK 3 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTLOL Posted September 7, 2021 Author Share Posted September 7, 2021 53 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Welcome to the Forum. There are some websites dedicated to New Jersey fossil finds as well. LINK 1 LINK 2 LINK 3 Thank you for the welcome and for the links - I will take a look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTLOL Posted September 7, 2021 Author Share Posted September 7, 2021 Here are some photos. Apologies that the teeth are in all the other photos, I meant to crop them out... Some (maybe most?) of this is probably just rock - it was our first time doing anything like this and our son was also keen to find things to keep! We're very pleased with the teeth. If anyone is able to identify anything at all, then thank you very much in advance! I can take more photos / up close photos of anything that you want to see. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoetheJerseyGuy Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Black Dots - concretions (aka rocks) brook has some interesting ones, some I keeps. Red Dots - Squalicorax kaupi (Crow Shark) Blue Dots - Scapanorhynchus texanus (Goblin Shark) Yellow Dot - Cow nosed ray - crusher tooth (possible) Green Dot - Enchodus (fish) tooth Light Greet Dot- ghost shrimp burrow or a rock formation. Good resource for identification http://www.njfossils.net has all the above with pictures 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Cropped, rotated, and brightened: 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTLOL Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 15 minutes ago, JoetheJerseyGuy said: Black Dots - concretions (aka rocks) brook has some interesting ones, some I keeps. Red Dots - Squalicorax kaupi (Crow Shark) Blue Dots - Scapanorhynchus texanus (Goblin Shark) Yellow Dot - Cow nosed ray - crusher tooth (possible) Green Dot - Enchodus (fish) tooth Light Greet Dot- ghost shrimp burrow or a rock formation. Good resource for identification http://www.njfossils.net has all the above with pictures Wow, thank you so much! For the IDs, the cropping, everything. I'll be looking at what those things are tomorrow. My son will be very excited. Again, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoetheJerseyGuy Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 52 minutes ago, LTLOL said: Wow, thank you so much! For the IDs, the cropping, everything. I'll be looking at what those things are tomorrow. My son will be very excited. Again, thank you! Exciting findings fossils from 66 to 100 million years ago from a brook in central NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTLOL Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 11 minutes ago, JoetheJerseyGuy said: Exciting findings fossils from 66 to 100 million years ago from a brook in central NJ. So exciting. I hope it’s something we can continue to enjoy as a family. We’re certainly keen to go back. It’s nice to be able to enjoy something that doesn’t require a ticket booth and being surrounded my lots of other people :-) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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