rapp creek hunting

[Rowboater]

On 5/18/2018 at 8:10 AM, Tidgy's Dad said:

Lovely finds. 

I especially like some of these little ones, they're gorgeous ! ! 

Thanks, pitiful compared to Morocco fossils, but some of the smaller ones somehow seem less fragile and survive intact.  Just have to focus on smaller (hard to photograph).

[Tidgy's Dad]

Don't forget, you usually only see the best of Moroccan fossils on line or on this forum and many of those have been touched up or fabricated, composited or filled. 

Most Moroccan fossils are just the same as those found elsewhere.

You have some nice stuff there. 

[Rowboater]

Thanks!  Probably need to learn to repair, I've had some small beautiful teeth break and usually cannot find all the pieces and put back together!  Rarely do I find pieces that I didn't break

Went out again after a good rain.  Unfortunately 'my spot' was totally silted in and the tailings nearby gone (either hauled off or washed away), so I explored, screening areas of shells that had not been visible before the rain.  Found a few broken cowshark teeth, a few angel shark teeth, a tiny ecphora, and a decent chunk of coral.  Most of the teeth I found were tiny or broken (or both) and were probably uncovered in the creek bed, but not recently washed out. 

The baby bird has left the nest.

 

[Rowboater]

On 5/12/2018 at 12:12 PM, Peace river rat said:

Had my best ever finds after hurricane Irma hit here Sep. 10th of last year. The river was already high, then....Irma. Tore our little town up pretty good, it was hairy. Sounded like a freight train running thru my yard, outside my shuttered windows. But I had/have faith in GOD and beer, a weather radio, lots of non perishable food and water. The river reached 18 and a half ft, the historical record is 20 ft.

The drum teeth I have found here are no larger and not a very common find. One or two a day, sometimes days with nary a one.

 

Some areas of the river are loaded with small fossils/gravel, large fossils are the anomaly. Other areas have larger rocks and...generally...larger fossils.

More drum teeth (odd that so many have brown as well as the glossy black).  A couple of tusk shells, rarely pick up (not sure what  the bigger  white shell is?) At the top "turtle bone" pieces, the one closest to the penny is a Tilly bone (fin, interesting pattern on top), next over is a broken bonito nose, rest I call "turtle bones"-- good a guess as any (except for cylindrical one, seems one time hollow filled by matrix).

Calling for heavy rain down your way over Memorial Day, hope it doesn't turn into anything more.