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A perfect weather day anyway!  "My" spots had been over-run, so started digging with a garden trowel at the base of an undercut bank, hoping roots might hold a cowshark (near where I found my only cowshark symphyseal years ago) or bigger (mako) tooth.  More gravel than shells so guessing near middle of the stream bed in the past (nothing big, so not too distant past!)  Did find three ecphora (not prized 30 years ago); the biggest did not survive a chunk of bone in the bucket alongside (may try to piece back together; a sickening loss, though missing its tail).  Four verts (often seem to find in gravel), some round Tilly bones, 30+ small teeth, nothing exceptional, a stippeled piece of vertebra(?), skate teeth, small broken stinger .  Lots of concretions, possibly some shrimp coprolites in a piece (will wait for total drying); the first ones I found were in the creek, since then all have been on a river beach.  Bird eggs gone from nest (hopefully as fledglings), a black rat snake, many different frogs, a salamander (eft? ran on shore), and some interesting birds, that I didn't recognize.  Wish I found more, but happy with a short hunt (two hour), not a difficult trip.

 

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Nice finds! I am looking forward to doing a sharktooth hunt in a couple months.

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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The shrimp coprolites were a Happy Find, I had found the little rods in matrix there originally but about 5 miles from the beach I frequent, so good to know they are widespread.  @GeschWhat @Carl While my scanner struggles with rounded pieces, I think it is the same stuff I find on the beach:

 

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Cool additions! 

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@Carl @GeschWhat @Al Tahan @Littlefoot I'm post another hunt but today did 90 min at the beach (sand covered, lots of black wood particles in water, frustrating), and later three hours at the creek in the woods.  Found one shrimp coprolite "burrow" at each site (and broken cowshark teeth at each site as well).

 

 

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