Cris Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 So, it was a little rainy yesterday, but Forum member @addicted2fossils and myself were dying to get our fossil fix. We decided to take a drive over to some dirt roads that the county uses shell pit material on. Usually we can find a couple small shark teeth and a ton of marine invertebrates that we believe are from the Caloosahatchee formation....and occasionally, we get lucky and find something a little larger. This, by far, is the most "staged" looking video I have ever taken since you can't really see much of the shell material around the tooth.. A few people on social media are convinced we bought a tooth and threw it down for the video But, this is where the little megalodon tooth was when I saw it. I suspect it survived because it was in such a sandy spot. A couple modern chips on the tooth make me think it has been run over quite a few times. This isn't my best or biggest tooth, by far, but it was a blast finding it on a random terrible looking road. We had a ton of rain.....and we are going straight back to these roads to put in a full day of driving around very, very slowly with our heads out of the window. With some luck, we'll have some more video tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 And here's a pic of a small great white shark tooth from the side of a dirt road very close to the one in the vid above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Hi, Oh Cris ! Very nice find ! Incredible... Just under your feet ! Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 You guys have all the luck! But I guess persistence pays off ultimately, doesn't it? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Florida side roads amaze me in the number of fossils they contain. So I do not doubt your video at all!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Nice to think outside the box (or outside the car on a slow drive). I've never found any shark teeth when poking around Caloosahatchee material but I may have to change my assumptions on this. Great finds. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Good luck out there guys, love the GW too! Looks like our rainy season may be on its way 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...
Plantguy Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Hey Cris, those are great-its amazing what a little rain will do-congrats. To add to your staging you need to find some poisonous snakes and get them in the shots, maybe some spiders, maybe a small gator hissing and have one of those sandhill crane pairs screeching at the top of their lungs in the background. Continued hunting success! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Nicely done. Florida is a fossil hunters paradise. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Awesome finds! I have been fascinated by the Great whites recently, they are becoming some of my favourites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 4 hours ago, digit said: Nice to think outside the box (or outside the car on a slow drive). I've never found any shark teeth when poking around Caloosahatchee material but I may have to change my assumptions on this. Great finds. Cheers. -Ken Ken, The funny thing about our shell marls is that the vertebrate material isn't evident until it's been rained and driven over. Our Waccamaw is the same way. Apparently the vertebrate material is host to all kinds of epibionts and must be processed to come free of this crust. The Waccamaw is justly famous for it's invertebrate diversity but some really nice teeth and bones come from local driveways and parking lots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Could driving up and down a shell marl road in a pickup truck be classified as fossil prepping? My yard is filled with shell fossil material (thinly sprinkled throughout a large amount of sand). If you did down deep enough you end up hitting a (oolitic, I believe) caprock layer that is pockmarked with what appear to be solution holes. These likely date from a time when this limestone layer was probably at the surface and vegetative matter collected in shallow depressions and rotted down releasing weak acids that further eroded the layer resulting in deeper pockets which collected more material which further deepened the depressions--resulting in an egg carton like surface of adjacent solution holes. In the sandy layer above this caprock I finds lots of little bivalves, the occasional nice gastropod (whelks, and conchs mostly) and very rarely little corals but I have never found a single shark tooth nor any vertebrate material while digging in my yard (mostly planting or digging up trees/shrubs/etc.). Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Cool video. Gonna plant my best ichthyosaur humerus by the car park at Charmouth in all serious, what a fantastic find! John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Russell Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Hearing the enthusiasm in your voices totally planted a big ole smile my face. Thanks for sharing your video, Cris! Finding my way through life; one fossil at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil-Hound Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 @Cris With a buddy who's alias is @addicted2fossils you can't go wrong! Congrats on the find and I do hope to see this in the fossil of the month competition as it's a real beauty of a Meg! Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace river rat Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 My concrete slab my porch sits on has some interesting invertebrates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Nice finds there! I have found fossils in roads in many places, always got to look. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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