Ted37 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Tried purse again high tide was coming on so a miserable walk back through the water. Found a few decent teeth nothing big. Most ate dinged up. Any ways I have two I would appreciate assistance on. One is the tooth on my pinkie. The other I photographed each side. Thanks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Other side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 I forgot this other find.back and front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Other side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBMugu Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 The ones in the 2nd and 3rd pictures look like an ear bone to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daleksec Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Bog iron Pleistocene age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Agree with Trevor, bog iron. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Which one pic 2 and 3? When I googled bog iron it looks nothing like any of my pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 On 6/13/2019 at 7:14 AM, Ted37 said: Which one pic 2 and 3? When I googled bog iron it looks nothing like any of my pics I've been working for over 5 years with a researcher, Dr. Weems, studying bog iron deposits along the Potomac River. Dr. Weems, a USGS emeritus, studied and wrote numerous papers on formations up and down the East Coast. We've been collecting bog iron footprints from two of the different bog iron exposures. Bog iron is extremely common in a good number of sites along the Potomac River. Bog iron has a number of classic forms and has a variety of colors from yellow, to orange, to light tan, to brown and dark brown, to red, to almost black etc. Both of your specimens are bog iron, not fossils. Marco Sr. 2 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Ok, thanks. I thought they both looked pretty interesting, with the one looking like it has enamel on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_gotta_rock Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I love bog iron! It's just a really cool kind of rock. Sometimes it looks like fossils, other times it looks like colorful, abstract art. This is one I found in VA. The base "base of the sculpture" is at least 3 feet across the long axis. Another, of which I shamefully did not take a picture, had two layers of iron separated by hollow, iron pillars created by gasses bubbling up from the lower layer when it was, in fact, a bog. I refuse to give up my childish wonder at the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Thanks for the replies. I finally had the chance to look at everything I found that day. That one piece on the left looks a lot like iron (bog?) to me. It was my best day so far at purse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 Nice finds! 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...
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