Some NJ Cretaceous Hunts July/August 2018

[Trevor]

Dear fellow forum goers,

 

These past few weeks have been quite busy, but that has not stopped me from going on the occasional fossil excursion. A few trips went by since my last posting and I decided to let some trips accumulate before posting again. On these trips I interacted with forum members @Woopaul5 and @frankh8147. The most recent trip was today, 08/12/18, and was somewhat productive. Frank found what we believe to be a part of a mosasaur brain case, which will surely be in his "finds of the year list". I was not as luck but ended up scoring a small point fragment and a jaw section of some fish. There were also some nice quality teeth that I found today. Other than this trip, I scored some nice finds on a few other trips throughout the two months. I hope you enjoy the finds, as I enjoyed finding them, and have a nice day.

 

Kind regards,

Trevor 

 

Overall Finds

 

Stream Worn Shark's Teeth 

 

 

[Miocene_Mason]

Some VERY nice teeth in there! Nice job!

[Trevor]

Artifacts, Ratfish Jaw Sections, and Coprolite

 

 

Ratfish Jaw Sections, Shark's Teeth, and Two Ray Dermal Denticles 

 

[Trevor]

Just now, WhodamanHD said:

Some VERY nice teeth in there! Nice job!

 

Thank you man!

[Trevor]

Vertebrae, Mosasaur Teeth, Gastropod, Ratfish Spine Section, Cephalic Clasper, and Bone

 

 

Scutes and Shark's Teeth

 

 

Fish Jaw Section

 

[izak_]

Very nice!!! Love the chimaeroid jaw bits! 

[Trevor]

Sawfish Rostral Spines and Crushing Fish Teeth (Not Drum Fish but cant remember name)

 

 

Ray Tooth, Shark's Teeth, and Pathological Shark Tooth

 

[PaleoNoel]

I think the crusher type teeth are Pycnodont if I'm not mistaken. Great finds! I only found my first semi-complete mosasaur tooth this past April which was my fourth trip down to the brooks. I guess i'm just unlucky when it comes to finding them.

[Trevor]

3 minutes ago, PaleoNoel said:

I think the crusher type teeth are Pycnodont if I'm not mistaken. Great finds! I only found my first semi-complete mosasaur tooth this past April which was my fourth trip down to the brooks. I guess i'm just unlucky when it comes to finding them.

 

It takes me about 18.5 hours of hunting to find a single mosasaur fragment. Just keep hunting and you will find more.

[Trevor]

Bones

 

 

Baculite Chunk 

 

 

Ammonite Chunk

 

 

Enchodus Jaw Sections

 

[PaleoNoel]

8 minutes ago, Trevor said:

 

It takes me about 18.5 hours of hunting to find a single mosasaur fragment. Just keep hunting and you will find more.

And that's exactly what I intend to do. You just gotta work hard for them.

[Woopaul5]

Awesome finds!!! Glad to meet you a few weeks ago. That large Squalicorax is amazing!

 

18.5 hrs for mosasaurs... out of 30+ trips all I’ve found is 1 tooth and 1 vert. 

[ynot]

Nice lot of finds.

[The Jersey Devil]

Nice stuff Trevor. The left dermal denticle is the Rhombodus/Brachyrhizodus type. The right one is a rare "Peyeria sp." type of denticle, but is really likely the denticle of an Ischyrhiza mira.

 

The fish jaw is a lateral segment of Enchodus jaw.

 

The "crushing fish teeth" are that of Anomoeodus phaseolus. The pathological shark tooth is an upper lateral Scapanorhynchus.

[JarrodB]

14 hours ago, Trevor said:

 

It takes me about 18.5 hours of hunting to find a single mosasaur fragment. Just keep hunting and you will find more.

Wow I thought they were more common there. I average 1 per hour at NSR in Texas. You still have some nice finds. 

[PaleoNoel]

2 hours ago, JarrodB said:

Wow I thought they were more common there. I average 1 per hour at NSR in Texas. You still have some nice finds. 

I was just looking at some of your finds Jarrod and that makes a lot more sense as to how you have so many mosasaur teeth, many of which are great quality. Makes me want to go hunting on the NSR. 

[JarrodB]

36 minutes ago, PaleoNoel said:

I was just looking at some of your finds Jarrod and that makes a lot more sense as to how you have so many mosasaur teeth, many of which are great quality. Makes me want to go hunting on the NSR. 

Come visit sometime and if I"m home from offshore I would be glad to show you around. 

[PaleoNoel]

43 minutes ago, JarrodB said:

Come visit sometime and if I"m home from offshore I would be glad to show you around. 

Thanks, I would love to go down to Texas at some point but I just have no idea when wouls I have the time to. 

[Trevor]

4 hours ago, JarrodB said:

Wow I thought they were more common there. I average 1 per hour at NSR in Texas. You still have some nice finds. 

 

Ha, that sounds like heaven. 

[JarrodB]

36 minutes ago, Trevor said:

 

Ha, that sounds like heaven. 

Lol it's not always something great but lots of stuff to be found. I really like that red artifact on the top of your pic. 

[Trevor]

4 hours ago, JarrodB said:

Lol it's not always something great but lots of stuff to be found. I really like that red artifact on the top of your pic. 

 

Thank you, artifacts are uncommon in the brooks. It was odd, I found both the red one and small black one on the same day!

[non-remanié]

I think better pictures are needed to say if its Peyeria.    Its possible but I'm leaning towards not.  

 

22 hours ago, The Jersey Devil said:

Nice stuff Trevor. The left dermal denticle is the Rhombodus/Brachyrhizodus type. The right one is a rare "Peyeria sp." type of denticle, but is really likely the denticle of an Ischyrhiza mira.

 

The fish jaw is a lateral segment of Enchodus jaw.

 

The "crushing fish teeth" are that of Anomoeodus phaseolus. The pathological shark tooth is an upper lateral Scapanorhynchus.

 

[The Jersey Devil]

1 minute ago, non-remanié said:

I think better pictures are needed to say if its Peyeria.    Its possible but I'm leaning towards not.  

 

 

 

Yeah, better pics are probably needed. I think I see longitudinal ridges on it, but maybe that is an artifact of wear.