Brownie's Beach Trip

[eannis6]

Hello everyone! I took a trip to Brownies Beach today in search of fossils. These were some of my favorite finds today! I found roughly 120 teeth, mostly very small.

[Fossildude19]

Cool finds.   

Brightened the picture for you. 

 

 

Nice porpoise/dolphin tooth.  

Regards,

[eannis6]

Thanks so much fossildude!!!!

[ynot]

Nice finds, even if they are small.

[eannis6]

Thanks Ynot!

[Miocene_Mason]

Nice finds! Thinking of going there myself soon.

[sixgill pete]

@eannis6 I would like to see good sharp in focus pics of the front and back of the tooth I have circled in red. Does this tooth have serrations?

 

 

[eannis6]

The tooth looks like it is too weathered to tell. Up close, it seems like there were indeed serrations at one point, but I'm having a hard time telling!

[eannis6]

23 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

@eannis6 I would like to see good sharp in focus pics of the front and back of the tooth I have circled in red. Does this tooth have serrations?

 

 

What do you think it is? I've heard a few different opinions and honestly I'm not sure.

[Fossil-Hound]

1 hour ago, eannis6 said:

What do you think it is? I've heard a few different opinions and honestly I'm not sure.

That appears to be a very tiny Megalodon but I'm going to go with C. chubutensis as I've never seen a Meg this small. @sixgill pete what are your thoughts?

[eannis6]

13 minutes ago, Fossil-Hound said:

That appears to be a very tiny Megalodon but I'm going to go with C. chubutensis as I've never seen a Meg this small. @sixgill pete what are your thoughts?

That is so neat! You are the fourth to say it's a meg! I think you're right. Thanks for the input! Have you been to Brownies beach?

[ynot]

@Al Dente, @MarcoSr, @siteseer

What is Y'alls opinion on the tooth in question.

Is it a megalodon?

[eannis6]

Worn serrations

[Fossil-Hound]

1 hour ago, eannis6 said:

That is so neat! You are the fourth to say it's a meg! I think you're right. Thanks for the input! Have you been to Brownies beach?

I think it's important to note that there were other mega sharks at the time. This could very well be a Carcharodon chubutensis.

[eannis6]

Oh gotcha! That's interesting!

51 minutes ago, Fossil-Hound said:

I think it's important to note that there were other mega sharks at the time. This could very well be a Carcharodon chubutensis.

 

[Al Dente]

Hard to say what it belongs to because it is so heavily worn. If those really are serrations that I see in the last photo they are very small and numerous. I think it is possible that this could be a posterior meg but just as likely to be a posterior Carcharhinus tooth. 

[eannis6]

3 hours ago, Al Dente said:

Hard to say what it belongs to because it is so heavily worn. If those really are serrations that I see in the last photo they are very small and numerous. I think it is possible that this could be a posterior meg but just as likely to be a posterior Carcharhinus tooth. 

Thanks for the input Al Dente!

[eannis6]

@MarcoSr said that 

"It is always difficult to make a positive id from pictures.  The tooth looks serrated and looks like it has a thin bourlette.  These and other crown and root features would match a posterior megalodon tooth.  The most distal posterior megalodon teeth are much smaller than anterior teeth.  However this tooth is so small that it is probably from a juvenile shark." 

 

I tend to believe him about this because of his reputatation. Thanks to all who have helped Id and put in info regarding this little tooth.

[MarcoSr]

17 minutes ago, eannis6 said:

@MarcoSr said that 

"It is always difficult to make a positive id from pictures.  The tooth looks serrated and looks like it has a thin bourlette.  These and other crown and root features would match a posterior megalodon tooth.  The most distal posterior megalodon teeth are much smaller than anterior teeth.  However this tooth is so small that it is probably from a juvenile shark." 

 

I tend to believe him about this because of his reputatation. Thanks to all who have helped Id and put in info regarding this little tooth.

 

The tooth is very worn but it looks like a posterior meg to me.  You usually find chubs at Brownies Beach but megs do come out of the layers higher up in the cliff.  However, Eric is right that there are other possibilities also.  Juvenile megs/chubs do tend to have ragged irregular serrations that are not as uniform as those on adult teeth.  The serrations would have been more helpful and diagnostic if they weren't so worn.

 

Marco Sr.

[eannis6]

18 minutes ago, MarcoSr said:

 

The tooth is very worn but it looks like a posterior meg to me.  You usually find chubs at Brownies Beach but megs do come out of the layers higher up in the cliff.  However, Eric is right that there are other possibilities also.  Juvenile megs/chubs do tend to have ragged irregular serrations that are not as uniform as those on adult teeth.  The serrations would have been more helpful and diagnostic if they weren't so worn.

 

Marco Sr.

I understand. Maybe if someone looked at it in person it may be easier to tell more for certain? Thanks for your comment Marco Sr.

[eannis6]

Do you all know of any way to positively Id this tooth for sure? Who to take it to?

[Gizmo]

It's a little meg.

[eannis6]

Thanks Gizmo! I believe it.

39 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

It's a little meg.

 

[ynot]

I think there is a museum at Calvert Cliffs. They could look at it.

[jcbshark]

Nice finds, congrats