SailingAlongToo Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 After a couple of weeks of us being under the weather from an Upper Respiratory Infection, Mrs.SA2 and I decided to take the dogs and visit one of our favorite places this past Saturday. Despite the forecast for rain, we both had a great day. But, the true measure of a successful day was achieved when the totally exhausted dogs slept the entire way home. As some of you may remember, I'm still playing catch up with Mrs.SA2 as she found 5 megalodon teeth in January. Saturday, I got my 2nd of 2018, about 10 mins after we started hunting. It's a gorgeous little "hubbell" meg with nice serrations and coloring. That gives us 7 megs so far in 2018. In just the few hours we were there, I found teeth from 11 different species of sharks. Here are a few of my larger ones. Mrs.SA2 had her own bag of goodies. I'll post some photos of them when she gets them cleaned up. Along with teeth, we also found a couple of those dreaded Miocene snails called Ecphora. Even more interesting, we found 2 different species of Ecphora about 10 feet from each other. I'm sure @Fossil-Hound and @sixgill pete can appreciate just how dreaded these Ecphora can be. Mrs.SA2 found 3 of them, but mine was the largest and most complete and is the oddball with only 3 whorls. Adding these 4 to her collection, Mrs.SA2 now has 59 Ecphora specimens from MD, VA and NC. The goal is to get around 100 specimens and then donate the collection for study and curation. All in all, it was a great day and Mrs.SA2 was happy. Happy wife, happy life!!!! Cheers, SA2 and Mrs.SA2 4 Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Nice little meg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 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...
Fossildude19 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 And the beaches continue to offer up the goodies! Nice report, thanks for sharing with us. 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...
MikeR Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Hi Jack Obviously you are in the Calvert. The shells are all Ecphora tricostata Martin, 1904. Buck calls the species highly variable as intergrades exist from one extreme form to the other within the Calvert at any one locality. In all Buck listed 4 species of Ecphora and an additional 4 subspecies in the Chesapeake Miocene. Ed Petuch has an alternate approach in that he recognizes very little variation and has described up to 40 different species within the region. I hold Dr. Ward's work in high regard and adhere to his point of view. Mike 2 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Great finds! Glad you had a good time! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoppeHunting Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Great finds! Love the big Makos and complete Ecphora. Were these found along the Calvert Cliffs? The Hunt for the Hemipristine continues! ~Hoppe hunting!~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 8 minutes ago, HoppeFossilHunting said: Great finds! Love the big Makos and complete Ecphora. Were these found along the Calvert Cliffs? No, VA. Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 1 hour ago, MikeR said: Hi Jack Obviously you are in the Calvert. The shells are all Ecphora tricostata Martin, 1904. Buck calls the species highly variable as intergrades exist from one extreme form to the other within the Calvert at any one locality. In all Buck listed 4 species of Ecphora and an additional 4 subspecies in the Chesapeake Miocene. Ed Petuch has an alternate approach in that he recognizes very little variation and has described up to 40 different species within the region. I hold Dr. Ward's work in high regard and adhere to his point of view. Mike Thanks Mike. I'm sure you know Mrs.SA2's and my affinity for Dr. Ward. We will be seeing him this coming weekend. Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Very nice finds! Love especially the Ecphorae and the tiny patho meg! “...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...
Ludwigia Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 That sure is a productive river. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Wow- some really nice finds- Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil-Hound Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 @SailingAlongToo wow you guys did really well. Gorgeous gastropods! I still need to send you that package. Been super busy but I’ll get around to it. Need to label everything. Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Excellent finds..... love that little Meg Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachbum Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Great finds! I like the variety of what you came up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Jack, that is a very nice little meg. That's got to be worth at least 3 in the count to catch up with Mrs. SA2. As as the ecphora, yea I hear you on them. Always a pleasure to find, but like a lays potato chip, no one can take just one!!!! 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...
SailingAlongToo Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 14 hours ago, sixgill pete said: Jack, that is a very nice little meg. That's got to be worth at least 3 in the count to catch up with Mrs. SA2. I said the same thing to her. She just held up one hand with 5 fingers extended and the other with 2 fingers extended, and then laughed at me. What was even more exciting was fossil collecting in our garage on Sunday. I went to wash the Miata so she could drive around with the top down in the 70F weather, and I found 4 ziplock bags with teeth and other assorted fossil goodies in my car wash bucket along with the sponge, soap and brush. Apparently, at some point last year, I cleaned the truck out after coming home from a fossil trip and must have just put the collecting baggies in the bucket for safe keeping, and completely forgot about them. One of the bags even had a nice smallish meg in it. Go figure....... How do you find a meg and forget about it for 4-5 months only to find it again later. Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 On 3/1/2018 at 10:24 AM, SailingAlongToo said: Go figure....... How do you find a meg and forget about it for 4-5 months only to find it again later. Perhaps, at some point last year you cleaned out the truck after coming home from a fossil trip and must’ve put the collecting baggies in the bucket for safe keeping and completely forgot about them “...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 March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 On 3/1/2018 at 10:24 AM, SailingAlongToo said: I said the same thing to her. She just held up one hand with 5 fingers extended and the other with 2 fingers extended, and then laughed at me. What was even more exciting was fossil collecting in our garage on Sunday. I went to wash the Miata so she could drive around with the top down in the 70F weather, and I found 4 ziplock bags with teeth and other assorted fossil goodies in my car wash bucket along with the sponge, soap and brush. Apparently, at some point last year, I cleaned the truck out after coming home from a fossil trip and must have just put the collecting baggies in the bucket for safe keeping, and completely forgot about them. One of the bags even had a nice smallish meg in it. Go figure....... How do you find a meg and forget about it for 4-5 months only to find it again later. A fossil so nice, you find it twice. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Nice finds for the both of you. I like the tooth in the lower right corner. You two are good to collect and then donate for study. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil-Hound Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 On 3/1/2018 at 8:24 AM, SailingAlongToo said: I said the same thing to her. She just held up one hand with 5 fingers extended and the other with 2 fingers extended, and then laughed at me. What was even more exciting was fossil collecting in our garage on Sunday. I went to wash the Miata so she could drive around with the top down in the 70F weather, and I found 4 ziplock bags with teeth and other assorted fossil goodies in my car wash bucket along with the sponge, soap and brush. Apparently, at some point last year, I cleaned the truck out after coming home from a fossil trip and must have just put the collecting baggies in the bucket for safe keeping, and completely forgot about them. One of the bags even had a nice smallish meg in it. Go figure....... How do you find a meg and forget about it for 4-5 months only to find it again later. Man I wish that would happen more to me! Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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