Carl Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Rockaway Beach, actually within New York City, finally yielded its first vertebrate fossils to me today: a small, beat up, weathered chunk of whale bone, and this wonderful, large bony fish vertebra. It only took 11 years of collecting... Happy New Year all and may 2019 be full of treasures from the deep past! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Nice! Congratulations and Happy New Year! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Congratulations! The New Year is already starting off great! 2 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Nice find congratulations. I have have had a few nice walks on Rockaway beach when I been in NY my friend lives at Breezy point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Cool find! Happy New Year 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Sweet! 1 "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowboater Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Neat vertebra! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 wonder what Fm? Is this a beach that is renourished regularly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilnoggin Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Not sure of formations, but along the jersey shore commercial fisherman pick up fossils in their nets occasionally. I’ve seen pictures of and read about whale,porpoise, shark, and manatee fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/3/2019 at 9:47 AM, Plax said: wonder what Fm? Is this a beach that is renourished regularly? I've learned it is the Pleistocene Gardiners Clay somewhere offshore. If by "renourished" you mean dredged by people I am not aware of much of that going on. I think most of what is there gets there from storm action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 On 1/3/2019 at 10:00 AM, fossilnoggin said: Not sure of formations, but along the jersey shore commercial fisherman pick up fossils in their nets occasionally. I’ve seen pictures of and read about whale,porpoise, shark, and manatee fossils. Most of the material you are talking about is float that may not have anything to do with the Gardiners Clay. Terrestrial material like mastodons and musk ox have been found by shellfishers for a long time and are likely the animals that lived on what is now inundated shelf but was dry land in the Ice Ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Love the pics- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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