sixgill pete Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Took a trip with he NCFC last Friday to an Oligocene quarry here in eastern NC. Belgrade Formation. There are also some pockets of Miocene/Pliocene/Pleistocene overburden in the form of a rocky layer. Did fairly well. There were several other Fossil Forum members on this trip also, so maybe they wil post there finds here. I had to leave a little earlier than most as I had to go to work. Bummer. I did see a couple of 2-3 inch worn megs from the rocky layer, as well as 2 squalodon type teeth from this same layer. I found 2 beautiful makos in this layer, great shape, great colors. The larger about 1 7/8 inch and the smaller 1 1/8 inch. Also I fund a worn C. angustidens about 2 1/8 inch with great colors. Along with a cow shark tooth. It is broken, but is an extremely rare find from this formation (Belgrade) and I was really stoked about it. A couple nice shark verts, ray teeth, nice hemi's and a Galeocerdo casei. This is a tiger shark tooth known only from the Belgrade formation. Another NCFC member, not a forum member, found a really nice mammal tooth also that I believe is deer. All the good stuff ......... The culls ....... Lingual side of the makos and C. angustidens .... 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...
sixgill pete Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Labial side of the makos, angstidens and cow shark ....... As you can see there is also a small croc tooth, a dolphin vert and another of the mystery fish teeth I have found there. I will address this in a different post. 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...
megaholic Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Good job Don, sorry I missed that! "A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrannosaurusRex Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Wow! All I can say is WOW!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Here are some of my finds from the trip. The first is the oyster Striostrea (Crassostrea) gigantissima. At this quarry there is a layer of these that lived on the hardground at the top of the River Bend - Belgrade Formation contact. The second picture is the caudal sting of a stingray. There are a lot of stingray teeth and caudal stings in this quarry. There are also a lot of Anoxypristis sawfish rostral teeth. Here is one that is next to a nice Oligocene limpet, possibly Diodora pumpellyi. The next picture is a Hemipristis tooth, probably H. serra. I found a lot of these this trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Here is a nice croc tooth on a pedestal of dirt. The next picture is a dugong rib section. This Great White shark tooth is probably from the Pliocene. There is a pebble lag that contains mix of marine and land fossils. On the way out of the quarry I saw a Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Wow Don, the colors on those makos are really nice ! Love the GW tooth too Eric : ) Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Thanks for the possible ID on that limpet Eric. I also found a couple nice ones. I also did find quite a few Hemipristis on this trip. Edited October 21, 2014 by sixgill pete 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...
masonboro37 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) Your finds are great Don. I just saw this and I had already posted on my Summer/Fall Excursion reports. That was a great trip! Edited October 25, 2014 by masonboro37 Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonboro37 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Here is a nice croc tooth on a pedestal of dirt. The next picture is a dugong rib section. croctooth.jpg dugong.jpg This Great White shark tooth is probably from the Pliocene. There is a pebble lag that contains mix of marine and land fossils. On the way out of the quarry I saw a Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivus. greatwhite.jpg green2.jpg Al Dente, beautiful Croc tooth and pic's. Lib Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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