Salty Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I need a little help ID'ing a couple of things. I know you guys can help! The long, skinny barbed piece is that a ray barb? How about the black, semi-circular piece? It looks almost like a miniture set of false teeth! Is it a mouth plate? Then the larger light colored piece-it looks like a barnacle or similar object. it's very light weight as if it's hollow-I haven't cleaned it up real well yet. Then there is the tiny flatter spiky piece with little "teeth". And of course I knew the tooth was a tooth, but it was cool because it was a double toother! Ahhh-double the bite! Any help would be appreciated! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Stingray barb, pufferfish mouth plate, barnacle bit (I think), piece of stingray crusher plate and not sure what kind of tooth... Cool finds!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Lissa has got them all right... and the shark tooth looks to be pathological. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Wow! That was fast! So I was right, it WAS "false teeth" ! I think I am getting a tiny bit better at this--I found a bunch of ray plates-that was the only one with a barbed- so to speak- edge. Found a bunch of teeth, no super sized ones, but some really nice ones and as you can see some little oddities. I was lucky enough to meet a couple of other fossil folks and had a wonderful time! Thanks Lissa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Funny how life goes-I used to live in Pennsylvania, and now I live in Western NC, and look who responded-PA and NC! Too funny- thanks ladies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'm with Lissa and Julianna : ) 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...
lissa318 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 You're very welcome and that tooth is super cool! I'm sure someone else will chime in about it as well. . Puffer fish mouth plates I always think are fun to find. Where are these from? Awesome you got to meet more fossil hunters as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 They were found in SC. This is my 2nd time out, and I am hooked! I used to find some interesting things in PA--I bet you have some treasures from there. I wished I would have know then what I know now! I would pick up random fossils and kept a few, but I could have had some humdingers. I lived close to the NY border and could have made quite the haul on Trilobites near Hamburg/ Buffalo- used to go along the lake shore all the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Funny how life goes-I used to live in Pennsylvania, and now I live in Western NC, and look who responded-PA and NC! Too funny- thanks ladies! btw, technically speaking, we should refer to the fish mouth plates as burrfish instead of puffer fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 They were found in SC. This is my 2nd time out, and I am hooked! I used to find some interesting things in PA--I bet you have some treasures from there. I wished I would have know then what I know now! I would pick up random fossils and kept a few, but I could have had some humdingers. I lived close to the NY border and could have made quite the haul on Trilobites near Hamburg/ Buffalo- used to go along the lake shore all the time! Why is it that we so often have to move away from an area, only later to realize that we didn't take advantage of a local treasure while we were there!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Your patho shark tooth looks like it could be a Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna sp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Why is it that we so often have to move away from an area, only later to realize that we didn't take advantage of a local treasure while we were there!? The grass is always greener on the previous side of the fence. "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...
siteseer Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 That ray tooth looks more like Plinthicus, an extinct form known from Lee Creek. I think I've seen specimens from the Bone Valley phosphates. I think that shark tooth is a hammerhead exemplifying file-splitting. As sharks grow, the mouth widens and the number of tooth files (positions) increases slowly as it does. As space for another file becomes available, a neighboring file can develop wider teeth with two crowns to the point that new teeth behind the two crowned-teeth have developed into separate teeth with one crown each and a new file is fully established. Jess Stingray barb, pufferfish mouth plate, barnacle bit (I think), piece of stingray crusher plate and not sure what kind of tooth... Cool finds!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Yes sometimes the grass is greener , but I can't complain now either! Here is couple of pics of some teeth I found during the same day/site. They are my bigger better condition teeth. Thanks for all your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Very nice teeth! The color on those is beautiful 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 July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 (edited) That ray tooth looks more like Plinthicus, an extinct form known from Lee Creek. I think I've seen specimens from the Bone Valley phosphates. I think that shark tooth is a hammerhead exemplifying file-splitting. As sharks grow, the mouth widens and the number of tooth files (positions) increases slowly as it does. As space for another file becomes available, a neighboring file can develop wider teeth with two crowns to the point that new teeth behind the two crowned-teeth have developed into separate teeth with one crown each and a new file is fully established. Jess I agree with Jess on the ray tooth; that it looks like Plinthicus, an extinct ray known from Lee Creek. You said you found these in S.C. may I ask where? Lee Creek is in N.C. All of the teeth you posted in your last picture are teeth that are also common at Lee Creek. Edited July 10, 2015 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...
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