hemi123 Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 So, got off work early yesterday so decided to walk my open field area 25 miles inland off of the South Carolina coast. I have learned, and please correct if I am wrong, that this area is Oligocene formation or sediment layer. So spent around 1.5 hours walking and picking up lovely finds. Just wanted to share. Most of them are Angustiden, but a mix of a wishful Meg piece, and a few great white bits. I intend on leaving more from now on the pieces that are broken to leave for others to find. I think we can all tell from the laptop, which is a small 13 " monitor. Biggest one is around 2 inches, thats my beauty with the root, tip, and cusps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 What a great way to spend some time off! Great finds! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 Very nice! “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 1 hour ago, hemi123 said: that this area is Oligocene formation or sediment layer. So spent around 1.5 hours walking and picking up lovely finds. Just wanted to share. Most of them are Angustiden, but a mix of a wishful Meg piece, and a few great white bits. Nice finds. Can not be "great white" if the formation is oligocene. Great whites came out late miocene. 1 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...
hemi123 Posted October 26, 2017 Author Share Posted October 26, 2017 Thank you for the correction Ynot.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jersey Devil Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 On 10/25/2017 at 10:26 PM, ynot said: Nice finds. Can not be "great white" if the formation is oligocene. Great whites came out late miocene. That makes a lot of sense. I want to ask, is it possible for two or more formations to be present at one locality, either laying on top of one another or overlapping? Thanks. “You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.” ― Mikhail Tal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 10 minutes ago, josephstrizhak said: That makes a lot of sense. I want to ask, is it possible for two or more formations to be present at one locality, either laying on top of one another or overlapping? Thanks. Yes it is possible. You can have several formations exposed in a given area. It is also known for older formations to erode fossils into a more recent deposit. Maybe Someone closer to the area knows more about that exposure. @sixgill pete @MarcoSr @Boesse 1 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...
Ludwigia Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Nice to hear that there aren't just ammonites lying on open fields That angustidens alone was worth the walk. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 17 hours ago, ynot said: Yes it is possible. You can have several formations exposed in a given area. It is also known for older formations to erode fossils into a more recent deposit. Maybe Someone closer to the area knows more about that exposure. @sixgill pete @MarcoSr @Boesse Tony I've mostly collected the quarries and several rivers/streams further inland in SC, not open fields near the coast. Depending exactly where in SC, I've found Eocene and/or Oligocene and/or Miocene (mostly reworked) teeth. The teeth do look to be from the Oligocene to me, although some are too worn/damaged to tell for sure. If Oligocene only, there wouldn't be any megs or great whites. For that, the area would need some Miocene or Pliocene mixed in. Marco Sr. 1 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemi123 Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 I am just learning the different stratospheres of sediment. But from the others that have posted here they have been mentioning what I had posted. In reference to what i find; I find a combination of meg frags, great whites, makos, angustiden, and hemipristis. So there IS a large variety, maybe as someone said above, the layers washed down into the creeks. I find them in the creek beds, not usually sticking out of the layer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattbsharks Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 I really like the one in the bottom right corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 1 hour ago, hemi123 said: I am just learning the different stratospheres of sediment. But from the others that have posted here they have been mentioning what I had posted. In reference to what i find; I find a combination of meg frags, great whites, makos, angustiden, and hemipristis. So there IS a large variety, maybe as someone said above, the layers washed down into the creeks. I find them in the creek beds, not usually sticking out of the layer. Sounds like You are working a "lag" deposit that has multiple ages in it. Sometimes it is nice to find the mixed ages of fossils. You never know what will pop up. Good luck. 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...
black3887 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 In some areas, several formations can be seen at once. It looks like you definitely have Isurus hastalis and possibly I. retroflexus in your finds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 So in the Charleston area, unless you pull a shark tooth right out of the Ashley Limestone, OR walk around at a construction site dug down into the Chandler Bridge Formation, every single shark tooth you will ever find here is pretty much guaranteed to be float or reworked. Most teeth are found in stream beds, and often when people go digging for big teeth they are really digging into the "Ashley Phosphate bed" - the basal phosphatic bone bed lag of the Pleistocene Wando Formation, which has reworked Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene fossils all mixed together (C. angustidens, C. chubutensis, C. megalodon, and Carcharodon carcharias teeth). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemi123 Posted November 2, 2017 Author Share Posted November 2, 2017 That helped a lot Bossee, thanks. Never thought of it that way. Guess thats why this past weekend I found one of the turtle shells(scutes?) of the old Galapagos turtles in the same area. Makes sense now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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