Tinarollinson Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I have an amazing shallow creek I have recently found , I think I have found shark teeth , geodes and some sort of fossilized bone, oh and even a fossilized crab! Please help me identify what kind of shark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Welcome to the Forum. Looks like a pretty productive creek you have there. I enlarged and cropped your shark tooth image - sorry, I can't help with Identification, but someone on here should be able to. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Very impressive haul for that area. I'm from North LA originally and most finds seem to be around the Columbia LA area. I"m sorry I can't help with ID but someone on here will be able to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Guest Star Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 What a great collecting spot you have! I can only make a vague ID on the two curly things in picture 2. They are partial gastropod steinkerns, inner molds of the shells. Please keep hunting and posting your finds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Pic 2 with the gastropods is corals and possibly burrows although the pic isn't real clear. Not sure if those are geodes or concretions... Have you tried breaking or cutting one open? I'd be visiting that creek all the time if I were you! Nice finds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilFinder Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Pic 2 with the gastropods is corals and possibly burrows although the pic isn't real clear. Not sure if those are geodes or concretions... Have you tried breaking or cutting one open? I'd be visiting that creek all the time if I were you! Nice finds. I'm pretty sure they are concretions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNCollector Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I would be willing to bet that these are Eugene in age, Louisiana is known for some nice Basilosaurus fossils from that area. Keep looking and you might find one! Great finds btw, I spend a lot of time with family in South Louisiana where fossils are much harder to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 A few of the specimens in the third photo look like worn terebratulid brachiopods. This order of brachs would make sense if found in deposits of shark teeth. But...hard to tell from a photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Most of the shark teeth are probably Striatolamia. They are the common type of sand tiger from the Eocene. Whole teeth are easier to identify. If these are Striatolamia, the anterior teeth should have striations on the lingual side of the crown. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 The round rocks look very much like concretions. Can you see anything on them? Little circles maybe? There very well may be a fossil of some kind on the inside of those? RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Welcome to TFF ! Nice finds! On the second picture I see some colonial corals and gastropods ' internal molds. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) For post #1/3 - Although the geological age is not revealed yet, I think that the resemblance with Cystoid calyxes (calyces) could be a possibility. https://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2011/01/16/wooster%E2%80%99s-fossil-of-the-week-a-cystoid-middle-ordovician-of-northeastern-estonia/ Edited June 11, 2016 by abyssunder " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 For post #1/3 - Although the geological age is not revealed yet, I think that the resemblance with Cystoid calcyxes (calyces) could be a possibility. https://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2011/01/16/wooster%E2%80%99s-fossil-of-the-week-a-cystoid-middle-ordovician-of-northeastern-estonia/ I agree that the reference of the geological age is peremptory...Because if abyssunder is right about the cystoid resemblance (that would make the layers Paleozoic), I would identify the gastropods as Maclurites sp. and classify the colonial corals as modern specimens. Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Great finds. I agree the teeth are probably Striatolamia. 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...
Tinarollinson Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 On 6/9/2016 at 2:58 AM, Tinarollinson said: I have an amazing shallow creek I have recently found , I think I have found shark teeth , geodes and some sort of fossilized bone, oh and even a fossilized crab! Please help me identify what kind of shark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinarollinson Posted September 19, 2016 Author Share Posted September 19, 2016 Petrified crab I found in same creek also what I call "geodes" when left whole u can shake them and hear them rattle inside, when broken open they have black "rocks" that look like quartz crystals inside Just now, Tinarollinson said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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