Potomac on Father's Day

[RCW3D]

My kids wanted to make today special so they all wanted to take me to the river and search for teeth along side me...they know how to make me happy! We only stayed for a couple of hours since it was extremely hot and the finds weren't as numerous...I think we will have to start heading up river to the Aquia formation for the rest of the summer, more and more people are showing up on this beach and piles of sifted material is all over. Anyway, we all had fun and despite not finding a whole lot, we did get some cool finds and some interesting unknowns.

 

Total haul

 

 

 

Best tooth, love Makos.

 

 

Dolphin tooth

 

 

I believe that this is a puffer fish mouth plate (side 1)

 

 

Side 2

 

 

Here's an unknown that I was about to cast off as a rock but then looked at it closer...I'm thinking some sort of coral, ay thoughts?  (side 1)

 

 

Side 2

 

 

Find of the day goes to my daughter, she found this tooth and brought it over to me because it "looked weird"...I believe this is a pathologic tooth. I looked at it under my digital microscope and it doesn't look as though it is split.

 

 

 

The other side

 

 

My wife found this and I was about to throw it away as being a random bone piece, then I saw the circular marks in it. Any ideas?

 

 

Opposite side

 

 

All-in-all it was an awesome day! My family made it special...even stopped for some fresh strawberry shortcake on the way home! Hope all of the fathers out there had as good of a day as I had!

[Miocene_Mason]

Glad you had a nice Father's Day! Lots of nice finds, the one with the curved lines could be a centrum.

[Darktooth]

Cool finds! Glad your Fathers Day was a special one!