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Savannah River with a Drum Fish riding a Horse ?


Brett Breakin' Rocks

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  I picked these up today from the Savannah River, the location has a good bit of fish material, larger bones, small fish verts and a smattering of shark teeth.  I'm always running into interesting things like this Drum Grinding Mill (almost complete darnit !).

  And what I can gather from photos, and what someone told me might be horse teeth ?  They were found submerged about 3 feet away from each other..... I wonder if the whole horse is down there somewhere ? haha .. poor buddy.

  These fossils I'm assuming are a mix, but I understood most fossils like this were from the Miocene to Pliocene. 

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Here are a few more finds from the same location ... the weather was thankfully rainy in the morning so it was a nice break from the heat.

There were drum teeth.  Possibly a small snake vert. Some fish verts and a mouth plate.  What I think is my first 'partial' Megalodon tooth and a battered Great White.

The tooth at the top of the penny that looks like a split coffee bean with the root missing. Does anyone know if that might have been a mammal tooth ? Some sort of pre-molar ? The horse teeth were found in the same general area.

Thanks 

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nice mouthplate.

 

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5 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

nice mouthplate.

 

Thanks ... I was pretty jazzed when I picked it up. The tooth patterns are amazing looking.

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32 minutes ago, ynot said:

Nice drum!!

Hard to find articulated pieces like that!!

 

Tony

Thanks,

    I know right, I'm just assuming that there was some dredging upstream or I'm walking on old dredge spoils that are slowly washing out.  I don't see anything like this on the beaches, nothing above a quarter size. 

 

Cheers,

Brett

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