Lawrence Canyon Closed

[Desert_survivor]

I headed up to Lawrence Canyon last week and this is what I found. Looks like the area is finally being developed. Say bye bye to another interesting and productive San Diego site. In honor of the site, here are a few of my favorite finds from Lawrence Canyon. I'd encourage everyone to post their favorites too.

[Desert_survivor]

Here is a nice tooth with some in situ pics. 

[Desert_survivor]

I picked this one up on the surface after a rainstorm, in situ just like this.

[Desert_survivor]

Lawrence canyon gave me my first horse tooth too.

[jcbshark]

Nice finds, those GWs are pretty 

[sixgill pete]

Beautiful teeth. And once again "progress" wins.

[Desert_survivor]

Thanks guys, there is so much iron (I presume) in the sediment in that deposit that it gives the teeth and bones a very nice brown color.

[El Jeffe]

[El Jeffe]

[Desert_survivor]

On 8/17/2020 at 3:51 AM, El Jeffe said:

Beautiful colors! I’m blown away by the variety. It must have been many, many hours of digging. 

[El Jeffe]

It was a bit but with how easy the digging was and interesting the different layers were at this site it always seemed to go by quickly. I think they are finally over all the environmental issue on this site and have finally broken ground.

[Rockin' Ric]

Nice! If they are developing the site by digging the earth...that earth has to go somewhere. I'd keep an eye on it and  where its dumped? You might be able to save fossils that may be buried forever.

[siteseer]

I remember when people were talking about the area being in the planning stages for development in the 90's.  Some collectors had Late Miocene fossils from Lawrence Canyon as well as Pliocene ones back then.  Back in the 70's and early 80's Oceanside was a place to go.  Some of those guys had beer flats full of teeth and bones.  Yeah, there used to be a lot of sites for shark teeth around San Diego but they slowly got built on starting in the 1950's.  By the early 90's it was getting  tough to find a spot.

 

Those horse teeth might be the Late Miocene-Pliocene genus, Dinohippus.  If you post photos straight at the biting surface along with a side view, someone might be able to confirm that.