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Today's Trip To The Creek


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The creek being my secret spot with exposures of the Aquia formation. I had a pretty good hunt one of the best I have had at this spot. I have been wanting to get in it after all this rain we had hoping that the extra water would have made some new gravel beds to search. I wasn't disappointed. The creek had many new gravel beds and I spent the first hour surface collecting the gravel beds before I starting screening. This paid off with two nice Otodus teeth the larger being an inch and a quarter slant height. I didn't find anything too special screening until near the end when I found my first Paraothacodus clarki! other than that I found six croc teeth, a nice Palaeohypotodus rutoti, a perfect Odontaspis winkleri, and the usual ray plates and striatolamia teeth. the first picture shows everything I found arranged as follows.

top: possible arrowhead fragments, crocodile bone fragments, and ray plates.

first row:Otodus obliquus, shark vertebrae, and croc teeth.

second row:Paraothacodus clarki.

third row:Odontaspis winkleri.

fourth row:Palaeohypotodus rutoti.

fifth row: smooth enamloid sand tigers,probably Carcharias hopei.

bottom five rows: striated sand tigers, probably Striatolamia striata.

The other pictures are close ups of the better finds.

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Really nice haul for one day's hunt. Congratulations. You've got a great spot and an excellent eye. Good luck on future hunts. I'm sure there will be many more.

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Those are some awesome finds, Congrats: )

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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I haven't seen that kind of variety and quantity since the old Belvedere Beach property was developed.

You have a wonderful site!

"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!

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Nice! I have to find a ray plate--they fascinate me for some reason. Nice finds, that looks like a terrific site! Keep us posted of your adventures!

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This was one of my best trips here, the better one being the one I found a perfect palaeocarcharodon. Pictures of that are in the member collections forum.

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