Rowboater Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Needed to get out and get some exercise. Relatively cool and dark in the morning, the full foliage shade was nice, surprisingly little water in the creek. I worked one spot hard, found a few partial ecphora, lots of sand tiger teeth, a few angel and drum teeth. A bonito nose a Tilly bone and what probably was once a bonito nose. One three pointed cowshark tooth which I lost when I fell. The highlight was a nice hemipristis (don't find many of those or tiger or mako in this site. And no megs). Bits and pieces drying to go through later. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Nice! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Very nice, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Nice finds! Can you show what a Bonito nose looks like? I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowboater Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 @Darktooth Here are six recent bonito nose finds. Often they are broken, but still recognizable, distinctive. Their shape is sort of a squashed cone (no photo from front, hard to balance on pug-nose point on scanner!). I have no idea of their function (?, does anybody know here?) I think most initially encountering them think they are some sort of vertebrae due to the throughholes and vert-like consistency of fossilization. Kind of neat looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowboater Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Went back to where I spilled my bucket figuring it would be easy to find the broken cowshark tooth I lost (never re-found it). But found some interesting verts, most of a skate stinger and more teeth, including two symphysial sand tiger shark teeth.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Rowboater, Could you point out the symphyseal teeth for us uneducated in shark teeth? Or am I being obtuse, and they are the ones on the left? Sorry you didn't find the cowshark tooth. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowboater Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Rowboater, Could you point out the symphyseal teeth for us uneducated in shark teeth? Or am I being obtuse, and they are the ones on the left? Sorry you didn't find the cowshark tooth. The two sand tiger symphyseals are to the left of "44-45" between the verts and the skate stinger. They are skinnier than usual "spikes" but have characteristic compressed blades and roots. I used to dismiss them as split teeth (which can look similar), but they are complete, but i've never seen a big one. Obviously it's not like finding the distinctive cow shark symphyseals. The sand tiger teeth are probably 80% of what I find, and I'm guessing I have six or eight of the symphyseals. Never seen one with a cusp. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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