fossil_lover_2277 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 (edited) Went fossil hunting for the first time since Holden Beach in May this past Tuesday at Greens Mill Run in North Carolina. Found my best meg EVER!! A near perfect 3 and 15/16 incher (just missing a tad bit of enamel beneath the bourlette on the front). Most megs at GMR are already fragmented and/or worn down in-situ, so extra happy about this one! Also found a Ischyrhiza mira sawfish rostral tooth tip, a huge exogyra, and I believe a nice Chesapectens masidonius? Also a baleen whale ear bone fragment, and a brown item I think might be a worn cetacean ear bone? Also a piece of petrified wood, a gryphaea oyster, a shark vertebra with processes, a section of turtle plastron, and some other goodies. All-in-all a much needed break from grad school worries over publishing papers Edit: the “shark” vertebra is actually bony fish Edited July 23, 2022 by fossil_lover_2277 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 35 minutes ago, fossil_lover_2277 said: a shark vertebra with processes This is a bony fish vert. The Smithsonian publication “Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine” identifies these as Merluccius bilinearis. The NC Fossil Club book identifies similar verts as filefish vertebrae. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossil_lover_2277 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 9 minutes ago, Al Dente said: This is a bony fish vert. The Smithsonian publication “Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine” identifies these as Merluccius bilinearis. The NC Fossil Club book identifies similar verts as filefish vertebrae. Thank you! That’s really cool to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossil_lover_2277 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Al Dente said: This is a bony fish vert. The Smithsonian publication “Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine” identifies these as Merluccius bilinearis. The NC Fossil Club book identifies similar verts as filefish vertebrae. Is there a way to purchase the NC Fossil Club book? Edited July 23, 2022 by fossil_lover_2277 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, fossil_lover_2277 said: Is there a way to purchase the NC Fossil Club book? https://ncfossilclub.org/publications/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 On 7/23/2022 at 9:39 AM, Al Dente said: This is a bony fish vert. The Smithsonian publication “Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine” identifies these as Merluccius bilinearis. The NC Fossil Club book identifies similar verts as filefish vertebrae. Right, a shark vertebral centrum is composed partly of bone but the neural and hemal arches aren't. They're made of cartilage which starts to disintegrate right after death so you find just the centrum as a fossil. Bony fish have bony centra and arches so those can survive as fossils. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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