RandyB Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 My wife and I took a trip fown to Maryland late last week for a little calvert formation hunting at Bayfront park. As i mentioned on another post we got to the beach at quarter to 7am and had the place to ourselves for a while. Nobody was there to collect our access fee so we walked down to the beach just after low tide. One set of footprints were just above the surf line but i never did see who made them as nobody passed us either direction all day. We both found a couple of small teeth on our walk from the enterance to the corner that juts ou. My wife decided to stay in yhe corner and screen while i walked further south. For me it was a very slow pick of small shark teeth and a small cetacean tooth by the time I returned. My wife found a small cetacean vert where she set up to screen. More smalls than i remember from my last trip, or maybe we were just better at spotting them. She found her first Squatina subserrata tooth. Here's our finds, scale on the right is in inches: Close up of some of the smalls, these are under a quarter of an inch and we were lucky they stayed in our screens (and that we saw them): Makes me think I should try a multi layered sifter stack just to see how much micro material is falling through. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyB Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Cetacean teeth, 2 views (blocks are a quarter inch): Heartbreaker, came up in a screen with the serrated edge exposed... sigh: angel shark tooth (Squatina subserrata): 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyB Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Not sure on this one, fish jaw maybe(didnt realize they were so blurry until I went to post): Unidentified clam shell: Sample piece of ray dental plate: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyB Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Another unknown, looks like enamel but no idea: Crab claw piece: Cetacean vert: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyB Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Pieces of shark verts: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted37 Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Wow, you did very well, and great variety. I want to guess it was a weekday? I have stayed away since the parking fee started. Maybe I should take a day off from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyB Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 @Ted37, we went on Friday. We were surprised it was as dead as it turned out to be. There were certainly a number of folks using the beach by mid morning near the entrance, but the only othe people we saw fossil hunting were 2 moms with little kids who were picking up handfuls of sand from the waters edge and looking through them. Once each kid had a small tooth they went back to playing in the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Tahan Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Awesome trip randy!! You really came out with a nice haul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Good score Randy! Congratulations for having the cliffs to yourself! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilsAnonymous Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 @RandyB nice cetacean teeth! They do not like me, as they dont ever seem to be on the beach with me On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyB Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 @FossilsAnonymous I have only found a few small ones and only by sifting a lot of matrix through screens. They are there, just takes time and a little luck. I would love to find one of the larger varieties, but I havent really put in enough time there yet. I'm hoping to go back in the fall when things calm down. Maybe keep my eyes on any big storms that come up the coast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilsAnonymous Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 52 minutes ago, RandyB said: @FossilsAnonymous I have only found a few small ones and only by sifting a lot of matrix through screens. They are there, just takes time and a little luck. I would love to find one of the larger varieties, but I havent really put in enough time there yet. I'm hoping to go back in the fall when things calm down. Maybe keep my eyes on any big storms that come up the coast. Yes, I am more of a looking with my eyes guy. I’ll probably find some at brownies in the winter. On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Nice finds! Glad You had a good day. 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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