prem Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 First Fossil Snaggletooth Shark Skeleton Ever Found! http://smnewsnet.com/archives/142653/first-fossil-snaggletooth-shark-skeleton-ever-found/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Nice! Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Now that's really something finding something like that in your back yard! Heavy, heavy, hemi! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 We have a couple members who worked on the excavation (for the CMM). The last I heard, it is not going to be donated to the museum for curation, and may be sold commercially. "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...
PaleoWilliam Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 We have a couple members who worked on the excavation (for the CMM). The last I heard, it is not going to be donated to the museum for curation, and may be sold commercially. I hope it gets donated to the museum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 It is the landowners' property, and they are entitled to do what they want with it. This is an important find, and scientific study may still be made of it, but I do wish it would wind up in a museum, ideally the Calvert Marine Museum. "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...
willy Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Definitely an awesome specimen! I am fortunate enough to visit it as it is being prepped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triceratops Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Interesting read! I hope it ends up in a museum. -Lyall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willy Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Here is a pic of some of the snaggle tooth shark disks on my dining room table, before knowing the whole thing was there. I was cleaning them for sale or donation, whichever the Gibson family wanted to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I hope the owners aren't thinking they're sitting on a gold mine. Assuming it went to an auction house, the average bidder of flashy fossils will see "shark skeleton" and look to see if it belongs to megalodon. When he sees "Hemipristis," he's going to say, "It's a what?" I think the owner should look into whether donating it would bring a tax write-off. Or maybe one of those rich east coast shark collectors will buy it and then donate it. We have a couple members who worked on the excavation (for the CMM). The last I heard, it is not going to be donated to the museum for curation, and may be sold commercially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non-remanié Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 (edited) Does anyone know what Calvert zone this was from? 10? Looks sandy enough to be 10, but I wonder if anyone can confirm definitively. Edited March 26, 2015 by non-remanié ---Wie Wasser schleift den Stein, wir steigen und fallen--- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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