karenilm Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I was hoping someone could give me an idea of my recent finds at Wrightsville Beach, NC. Thank you very much for any help you can provide!!!! THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!! --Karen 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 Six Is a Megalodon tooth bit, colloquially known as a “Fragalodon. Nice finds 2 “...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...
karenilm Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 WhodamanHD - Thank you!!!! That is awesome!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 No problem @karenilm happy to help @Harry Pristis see anything familiar? 1 “...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...
Darktooth Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I think #7 is turtle carapace. 2 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I don't want to get your hopes up but could#10 be a tusk? Can you take some close-ups of both ends? Maybe also texture? 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 #1 appears to be a horse proximal phalanx. #2 and #3 non-fossils. #4 and #5 Tilly bones. #6 megalodon fragment. #7 maybe turtle marginal. #8 non-fossil. 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 I'm pretty sure 7 is turtle, otherwise not my area. Great finds. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenilm Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Darktooth - Wow!! Last year I found a partial Mastodon tooth at the same beach so that would be really cool!!! Please let me know if you need better pics. As I uploaded I saw that the closeups I just took aren't the best. Thank you!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenilm Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Harry Pristis - Wow! Thank you!! I found a couple Tilly bones before but they didn't have the heart shape that this one has so I didn't even think of that. Very Cool! I looked up images for the horse proximal phalanx and that looks just like the bone I found. Thank you for taking the time to look over my finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenilm Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 Tidgy's Dad - Thank you!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 1 hour ago, karenilm said: Tidgy's Dad - Thank you!! Thank you! It's nice to be appreciated, even when one can only help a little and try to confirm what others have already said. Very polite and kind of you. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 9 may be a worn frag of a very large whale rib. 10 looks like manatee rib. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted January 30, 2018 Share Posted January 30, 2018 3 minutes ago, Plax said: 9 may be a worn frag of a very large whale rib. 10 looks like manatee rib. I agree. 1 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenilm Posted January 30, 2018 Author Share Posted January 30, 2018 PLAX and SIXGILL PETE - Thank you!!!! I looked up both and can definitley see the resemblance. General question---How old do you think these fossils are? This forum is the best. I'm learning so much and my kids are so excited to see your responses. Thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Harry is right in all the lines. Nice comparative images for specimen 5 are here in this older thread of TFF. The first tilly bone (4) is a hyperostosed vertebra. 2 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 18 hours ago, karenilm said: PLAX and SIXGILL PETE - Thank you!!!! I looked up both and can definitley see the resemblance. General question---How old do you think these fossils are? This forum is the best. I'm learning so much and my kids are so excited to see your responses. Thank you very much Concentrations of phosphatized fossils are usually lag constituents. Lags concentrate fossils of various ages as the fossils are basically clasts like a pebble. Each time the sea level rises the resistant clasts are concentrated. When this happens repeatedly, as at Wrightsville and other beaches, fossils from Miocene or even Oligocene will be found with Pliocene and Pleistocene fossils. So; your meg frag is Miocene or early Pliocene I'd guess. The others are probably Pliocene or Pleistocene and their identity will give their approximate age like the meg frag. Don't forget that Eocene and even Cretaceous fossils are occasionally found near the rip rap at the inlet from the erosion of great rocks locally quarried. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 19 hours ago, karenilm said: This forum is the best. I whole-heartedly agree!!! 1 Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 3 minutes ago, Max-fossils said: I whole-heartedly agree!!! Me too! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karenilm Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 9 hours ago, Plax said: Concentrations of phosphatized fossils are usually lag constituents. Lags concentrate fossils of various ages as the fossils are basically clasts like a pebble. Each time the sea level rises the resistant clasts are concentrated. When this happens repeatedly, as at Wrightsville and other beaches, fossils from Miocene or even Oligocene will be found with Pliocene and Pleistocene fossils. So; your meg frag is Miocene or early Pliocene I'd guess. The others are probably Pliocene or Pleistocene and their identity will give their approximate age like the meg frag. Don't forget that Eocene and even Cretaceous fossils are occasionally found near the rip rap at the inlet from the erosion of great rocks locally quarried. PLAX - Thank you very much taking the time to share this info!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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