fuller.43 Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Hello! First off, I'm very new here, so I apologize if this is not the right place or format to post. I'm currently doing research on the broad toothed mako lineage and it's relation to white sharks. I'm planning numerous trips down the East coast and anywhere even half a country away from Ohio for the purpose of photographing and documenting the relevant teeth. Essentially, I'm trying to find all the Isurus hastalis, Isurus xiphodon, Isurus escheri, Carcharodon carcharias, Carcharodon hubelli, and all of those fancy new Peruvian makos that I can. I've already contacted a number of museum collections, but want to make sure I'm not missing anything! Any advice on where I should call next? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calhounensis Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 UF, in Gainesville, Florida would be a good place to start. Richard Hulbert is the VP Collections Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 I have sent a message to one of our members in Greenville, NC, who has a vast 'private museum'. Hopefully, he will respond soon; if he is still taking visitors, I guarantee it would be worth seeing! "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...
fuller.43 Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share Posted April 23, 2014 Thanks for the fast help so far guys! I wish I had posted this 2 weeks ago. After furiously trying to get a hold of Bruce MacFadden at UF, I was only told hours ago to contact Richard Hulbert instead. I left a message with him, so hopefully I can smooth that out soon. They have a rather large collection of what I'm looking for. I've also been trying to find contact information for Gordon Hubell, but my lack of ability to contact anyone at UF has made that fruitless thus far. And thanks, Auspex! That would be great, if it's not too inconvenient. Do you happen to know what all he has (at least in the broad-toothed mako/ carcharodon range)? Thank you again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 ......Do you happen to know what all he has (at least in the broad-toothed mako/ carcharodon range)?... He curates the fruits of 55 years of collecting shark's teeth, from Lee Creek and many other sites. Something in the neighborhood of 100,000 specimens. Knows a thing or two about them, too! "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...
Scylla Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Buena Vista Museum? They must have one or two from STH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powelli1 Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Hi My name is George W. Powell Jr. and I have hunderds of teeth you can look at and take photos og, I live in Greenville, NC and yes I like having folks come by to see my collection. I have around 100,00 fossils that I have collectec. Call me at 252-756-8039 or e-mail me so we can talk. By the Bruce McFadden will be one of or spearkers at the Aurora Fossil Festival on May 24 this year in Aurora,NC thats an hour east of me. I am the one Chas was talking about. Take Care George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatooth Collector Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Are you only interested in the ones you can photograph and inspect yourself or would you be interested in seeing some examples in collections that may not be accessible to you in person because of distance? I have a couple of decent transition teeth you might be interested in seeing photos of? Feel free to email me on here or check out some of my galleries for great white and ancestors. Happy hunting! Kyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuller.43 Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 Thanks everyone! I'll give Buena Vista a call and see what they have available! And I will very happily shoot you an email, George! I had never heard of the Aurora fossil festival, but Aurora is where one of the professors I work with gets lots of his specimens from. Even if not for actual samples, it may be fun to get over there for the festival if I'm able. Lastly, while I wish I could just use anything Kyle, I have to homogenize both the camera the pictures are taken with, and the exact manner they are taken. Otherwise most analysis will be biased, and I'll get yelled at when I attempt to publish. Thanks for the thought though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I can say it would be well worth your while to come to NC and see Georges private collection. Honestly, it is better than most museums. His collection of broad tooth mako's is amazing (as his associated dentition of Parotodus benedini) and if you are in town on the 24th of May, you can go to the Aurora Fossil Festival. Aurora is an hour or so from Greenville. The museum there has an unbelievable collection and the festival is a lot of fun with great fossil displays. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Like sixgill pete say, the private collection of Georges W. Powell jr. is amazing!! I have been fortunate to be able to sie this during our fossil trip in 2009. Picture 1: George and our groep. Picture 2: George, I (right) and my buddy geert. Walter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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