steelhead9 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 These are my best teeth in 20 years of collecting on Martha's Vineyard. Largest meg is right at 6". Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 These are my best teeth in 20 years of collecting on Martha's Vineyard. Largest meg is right at 6". Here are some closeups to highlight the distinctive color of Vineyard teeth. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Here are some closeups to highlight the distinctive color of Vineyard teeth. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordpiney Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 they are awesome! i knew that they found teeth there, but until now...i had never seen any. thanks for showing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 These will no doubt cause serious Meg Tooth Envy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Martha's Vineyard Megs?! Wow! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sharks Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Never heard of teeth from there before now. I like the silver/black 2 tone effect. For anybody that didn't know, the original Jaws was filmed on Martha's Vineyard. Duuuuuuh-dum, duuuuuuuh-dum There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Awesome finds and great color. Congrats, now go find more!. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Awesome finds and great color. Congrats, now go find more!. The government deeded much of the land in Gay Head (now politically correctly called Aquinnah) to the Wampanoag Indians about 10 years ago. The fossil beds were part of the deal and have been totally shut down. Another one bites the dust! There still is one other location, but the sediment is heavy gravel (the small white teeth come from there). Anything over 2" is worn to a nub. I have found meg remnants there, but never anything resembling a whole tooth. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Thanks for posting these. Just adds to the forum's knowledge-base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I have wondered if anyone was still finding sites out there. Years ago, a friend sent me a copy of this article: Sanford, S.N.F. 1934. Fossils of Colorful Gay Head. Bulletin of the Boston Society of Natural History. Number 71. April 1934. The front of the issue shows a megalodon from there. The article mentions that the "Gay Head Indians" were aware of the commercial value of the fossils back then and watched for stuff eroding out, selling specimens to visitors. The government deeded much of the land in Gay Head (now politically correctly called Aquinnah) to the Wampanoag Indians about 10 years ago. The fossil beds were part of the deal and have been totally shut down. Another one bites the dust! There still is one other location, but the sediment is heavy gravel (the small white teeth come from there). Anything over 2" is worn to a nub. I have found meg remnants there, but never anything resembling a whole tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Very unusual.... Thanks for showing us... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Wow, and I always thought the closest Megs to me were in Maryland. Now I know its a short swim northeast of Montauk Looking at a map I would have thought Martha's Vinyard (and Block Island) would be part of the same terminal moraigne as Long Island. What is the geology there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 (edited) Never heard of teeth from there before now. I like the silver/black 2 tone effect. For anybody that didn't know, the original Jaws was filmed on Martha's Vineyard. Duuuuuuh-dum, duuuuuuuh-dum Yup... kids I knew in high school were extras in it... regular beach goers on beach scenes. As a Mass native who got into fossils well after leaving Mass, I knew there were fossils at Gay Head, but never made it down there tocheck it out. Are these from Gay Head? Ooh, I just read the rest of the thread... sounds like they are Gay Head finds. Edited January 24, 2011 by jpc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsharky Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) Love the colors on those teeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They sort of remind me of the colors on Cuban teeth..... Edited February 8, 2011 by iamsharky Miocene/Eocene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exasperatus2002 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Wow, great finds! I didnt realize you could find them that far north. So then it stands to reason I could find some in NJ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 2 hours ago, exasperatus2002 said: Wow, great finds! I didnt realize you could find them that far north. So then it stands to reason I could find some in NJ? This was posted in 2011. Most (but not all) of the members on this string are not as active as in the olden days. Megalodon from New Jersey can happen if someone drops one out of their pocket, or loses their belt buckle meg. Otherwise head down south like Shark River and you might be able to find a Chubensis which I believe has been found somewhere in the Garden State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 All this talk of being politically correct and you are still calling the native tribes "Indians". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 1 hour ago, caldigger said: All this talk of being politically correct and you are still calling the native tribes "Indians". That was way back in the not so P.C. days of 2011, to be fair. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 1 hour ago, caldigger said: All this talk of being politically correct and you are still calling the native tribes "Indians". @Siteseer was quoting a 1934 article when he used that term. 1934 certainly predates our latest round of PCness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 On 3/5/2019 at 3:14 PM, Scylla said: @Siteseer was quoting a 1934 article when he used that term. 1934 certainly predates our latest round of PCness. He might have been referring to Steelhead9's post but thanks for the back-up. I did put the term in quotation marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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