moahunt1 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I had. or thought i had a day off work so i decided to go for a long walk down Haumuri bluff , Late cretaceous site. There has been some recent slips and rough seas and I was expecting to find some new material. I found a nice inch long Shark tooth, well it was nice until it broke. the rock was way too big to take home. superglue will fix it I came across this bone, looks like a vertebra of some kind, but really unusual. plesiosaur or Mosasaur probably. I found a waterworn fish vert some of the other stuff thats commonly found there inoceramus and belemnites very weird tooth looking thing any ideas? huge chunk of bone Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 I also found this broken tooth thing, it was already broken when I found it but Im unsure what it is from. If anyone can help me with that. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 hi logan some nice finds your unidentified weird looking tooth thing is actually a piece of worn plesiosaur bone looks like bone i have found from mikonui stream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 Hey Dave Thanks for that. I have just found out that there are over 50 varieties of shellfish in the tarapuhi grit!! so Im going to have to count how many species we have!!! im thinking its like 10 or 12. I found a really strange gastropod as well and another i hadn't seen there before. interesting about the bone bit it looked too much like bone but its shiny. it could be part of a little flipper bone. There has been some major slips there at haumuri where the shark teeth erode by the gypsum area , cant wait for the dirt to wash off them , the Vert had fallen out of the bank and only has soft mudstone around it. Its kinda exciting having this in my back yard. 1 Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down under fossil hunter Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 cool finds, I will have to give you a call next time I am over there! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 ...interesting about the bone bit it looked too much like bone but its shiny... In a couple of the views, a piece of baculite comes to my mind. 1 "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...
moahunt1 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 In a couple of the views, a piece of baculite comes to my mind. They do have one species of baculite at the site. I havent seen it but the books tell me it is there!!! thanks Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 cool finds, I will have to give you a call next time I am over there! :-) Totally. Its a date lol! That goes for anybody, Ill take you out looking for stuff - its fun................. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drujd Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Cool finds Logan. How was Canada? You know you're doing something right when your child asks, "When did Santa evolve?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 Cool finds Logan. How was Canada? Heyy!! It was really really good I have been back for three weeks now and have been fossil hunting twice. I didnt get 'ooot and aboot' much into the environment, but spent a really good time with my partner and her kid. we went on roller coasters and to the zoo!!! I did however find a few fossil brachiopods and some crinoid stems from the ordovician when I went swimming at the Lake/river they were in stones on the beach lol! caught a fish too!!! saw a polar bear nearly met carly rae jepson LOL met ans shook hands with the singing astronaut guy and also went to taylor swift! saw a cool snake Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carcharodontosaurus Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 I also found this broken tooth thing, it was already broken when I found it but Im unsure what it is from. 10-DSCF9519.JPG11-DSCF9520.JPG12-DSCF9521.JPG14-DSCF9523.JPG15-DSCF9524.JPG16-DSCF9525.JPG If anyone can help me with that. I can't say for sure, but the tooth seems to be thin and reminds me of some Carcharodontosaurus teeth I've seen. It's probably something else, but you might want to check with an expert in case it might be a partial theropod tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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