Adam86cucv Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Last Sunday my family (wife, 7yo son, and 2yo son) and I headed down to Purse State Park for the first time for some fossil hunting and beach time. The parking lot was full but a couple was packing up so we were able to snag their spot. We got there about and hour before low tide and stayed about 2 hours. We all found some teeth and ray crushing plate fragments. Ok, technically our 2 year old was just playing in the sand but we pointed out and he handed us the ones that were in the sand he was playing with. We didn't find anything huge but for 2 hours everyone had fun and was happy. In the past visits to Brownies Beach and Calvert Cliffs my wife would just hang back and entertain our youngest or play with him on the edge of the water, actually searched and found several including the largest one among us. I'll have to play with the camera some or get out my usb microscope and see if I can improve the pictures. I have a picture of just the teeth I will have to attach separately since I am hitting the max size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam86cucv Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 This is a zoomed in picture of just the teeth and teeth pieces. I'd also like to thank my son for being a star student so I could use his ruler as a scale otherwise it would be some variety of coinage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam86cucv Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 I forgot the zoomed in picture of the miscellaneous fossils found, minus the ray crusher plate fragments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Nice finds. 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...
Adam86cucv Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 55 minutes ago, ynot said: Nice finds. Thanks, I feel it was one of our best fossil hunting trips yet. My 7yo son is getting good at spotting the teeth so it's not like in the beginning when he was discouraged that he couldn't find anything. I just need to make sure we have enough sand toys/tools for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil-Hound Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 There you go Adam. Keep it up! Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCW3D Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 It is a fun place to go, my girls love going there as well! If you want to find all the turritella gastropod fossils you could ever imagine, walk downriver from the entrance. Just past the point you will find a bluff full of them! Congratulations on the finds! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Congratulations on time well spent with family! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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