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Hi everyone! I acquired these in a batch of cow shark teeth from Antwerp, Belgium. I think they're symphyseal, but they're all incomplete so I'm not 100% sure. What do you all think? Any insight is greatly appreciated as always!
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Four trips, two digging, two walking the beach. One cow shark trip was good, the other nothing (?) Beach trips cold and windy, but lots of gray/ requiem and one ugly rootless almost enamel-less mako (about 1 1/4" or 3 cm, the biggest.). Small hemi, angel, and tiger contributing to the little teeth. Four cow shark. Nothing special, or big, but no one else out (the sane people stayed home).
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Since my first time finding one I have been obsessed with cowshark teeth. I’ll share some of my collection and please share me what you have. Thanks! Notorynchus Cepedianus, Calvert fm Hexanchus sp, from Chile Notorynchus Kempi, Kazakhstan Notorynchus Colonsii, Muddy Creek, VA
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Here are my 2 best finds from today from my local Eocene pit. A really nice dark colored Otodus auriculatus (ric) and a nice little sixgill cowshark, Hexanchus agassizi. The ric is about 2.5 inches.
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Spring has alternated between cold and hot, not much middle ground here in Virginia. Lots of life in the creek and at the beach, minnows plentiful now. Had hoped the rain was bring some bigger stuff but finding more of the same (may be my fault; haven't really strayed from areas and favorite spots). Less sand tiger spikes, but they are usually the most abundant, and will return. Lots of competition at some spots, but sadly just old people like me, not the kids that were everywhere 30-50 years ago looking for "dinosaur" teeth and finding lots of fossil shark teeth. Still chasing the cowshark bottom laterals without serrations on the first point, and with small "pre-points". I have found more of these (mostly in an old spot now hunted hard as a "new spot'). But it's difficult to interpret. There may be some similarities between fossil cowshark teeth and those of the broadnosed sevengill and the sharpnosed (which has pre-points, but not the variability I'm seeing). Still cow shark teeth are my favorites, and the last year has been incredible @Fin Lover @Meganeura @Parker Brown
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Highlights from a couple of recent trips. I found two Hemipristis/ snaggletooth, the big one is perfect (rare for me). Also a nice cowshark tooth, tips intact and most of a root (also rare for me). More gray sharkteeth than usual, fewer angel shark and drum "teeth" (less gravel where I was digging?) I think the black piece with embedded gravel is a drum tooth plate; not sure what the yellow piece is? (when in doubt "Turtle"). A bonito nose and the usual sand tiger spikes. Fun to be hunting in the cooler weather, less mosquitoes and deer flies, still frogs and salamanders although the water was largely gone from the creek. We had an inch plus of rain yesterday and more expected Sunday night, so hopefully it will move stuff into the opening.
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A few interesting ones from recent trips (tried to flip and scan each side). Finally found a cowshark symphysial, but like most from the creek, it was broken (fewer but better shape from the beaches? Hopefully not broken from screening.) The pathological tooth I posted last trip (a sand tiger quite bent), along with dolphin tooth and skate scute. No big makos, but a few inch or so. A lot of fossil coral chunks at the spot. Not sure the mammal tooth is ID-able; tips of points missing. I like the jaw bone, not common here. A few angel shark teeth, fairly common here.
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Another trip to a nice little spot I've found on the Trent River in Eastern North Carolina. My brother found the nice cow shark tooth which I've never seen come out of this spot before. Pleasant surprise, and some other nice fossils including a whale vertebrae & half of a shark vert.
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Pickings at the beaches are still slim lately (a few coprolite burrows), and I haven't been out as much as I would like. Here are some of my findings from my last four trips or so to the fresh water creek I hunt. There is at least one weird thing that I will probably post in the ID section; not sure it's a fossil, could be part of a leaf or an arthropod, looks fragile. My prizes are a 2"+ mako (blade is in good shape, root is there but rough) and another cow shark tooth (I thought I counted 7 points but not clear in the photo. Several angel shark and drum teeth. A few rough teeth, bones (maybe Tilly bones in a few cases). A skate scute and two small vertebrae. A bunch of small spikes (a couple with matrix attached?) and triangular teeth. Always nice to be out. The water's super cold from the snow melt but NO competition, and always great to be out in the woods.
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Cow shark from Morocco
Jurassicz1 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I saw this cow shark tooth (Notidanodon loozi) from the phosphates of Oulad Abdoun Basin, Morocco. My question is if its possibly restored / repaired or not good quality. Is this a good shark tooth?
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Shook and beat on my scanner, then a new 'improvement' came from the Internet, not sure the problem, but seems to be working again. Spring gobbler season is over so feel a little safer in the woods. Kids have obliterated two of my favorite spots, so after not finding any thing in THEIR favorite spot I decided just to dig in the creek bed near roots and fallen trees, hoping they had trapped something. A few spots in three trips yielded the "usual" sand tiger spikes, I like the ones with sharp hooked cusps but most of the sites are gravelly which tends to wear down the cusps (took a scan of a few plus one syncytial): Also found several broken cow shark teeth and a miniture ecphora (gravel is hard on shells and fragile teeth). More tiger shark teeth than usual as well: The main thing I find in gravelly spots are verts (usually broken) and drum "teeth": Also find some (some chipped) angel shark teeth (bottom of scan) with "microteeth": Not many mako teeth (two for sure!): Also found a 3 3/4 inch whale inner ear (bulla) and skate teeth (no plates) and grey shark teeth (no real big ones). I had hoped to switch over to fishing, but the weather is more conducive to shark tooth hunting.
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Beautiful spring weather here! Nothing new and exciting from me, but lots of small teeth, some colorful. One rootless weathered cowshark tooth, bunch of glossy drum teeth, angel shark or two. Mostly spikes, sand tiger, some with nice cusps. The two burrows are from the beach, as is the tiger shark tooth (not much of a winter, and not many makos on the beach-- or maybe others are after them!) Great being out, although pollen is clearly coming fast here.
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Had a big rain and a major windstorm (lost power a couple of hours), even though the wind was from the south (and I much prefer winter north winds for my beach) had to check. A bit disappointing, tooth-wise although I did find a mako and a big shrimp coprolite burrow, and five small teeth (and some old pottery shards). Tried the creek at an old spot, where I hadn't had much recent luck, but the rain had deposited teeth in one spot and weakened the bank in another where I dug around and found some teeth but mostly bone bits and a few interesting steinkerns (with some glossy surfaces, one an obvious snail shell, another with shrimp coprolites.) Found one ALMOST complete cowshark tooth, four angel shark teeth and a bunch of drum 'teeth' and several sandshark teeth, plus four verts and a lot of skate teeth, most broken. Better than usual hunting. First scan is of the bigger stuff (not counting bones or shells, who asked that I pick up some for her kids): the cow shark, mako, a lemon(?) and tiger shark, plus a weird concretion, a Tilly bone and two vertebra, the top one with an odd loop. For the mantis shrimp coprolites, notice they tend to be thicker in the burrow than in the steinkern below.
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Break from the heat today, so hoped to enjoy the weather at the beach. Unfortunately the surf was washing small black wood particles up the length of the beach, and that negated the low tide. The water was turbid and I couldn't see behind the 'black surf' which was crashing more than I like. I only found a badly weathered cowshark tooth in the first hour, but being stupid and stubborn I kept at it and found a shrimp coprolite burroe, a pointy something (?), a skate tooth and six other small shark teeth (lost two at home, probably will step on them). The weather was gorgeous so I decided to try the freshwater creek, which has been hunted forever by the neighbors. The first spot, lots of gravel, found a broken cowshark tooth (with a root), a shrimp coprolite burrow (the sites are five miles apart so they must be common fossils), several skate teeth, a small pointy thing (not like the beach one), a vert, and a bonito nose (some other stuff still drying). But not many teeth (?) Tried another spot (mostly sand and shells) and found lots of teeth, but all small (another broken cowshark tooth, three angel shark teeth, and many sand tiger shark spikes and gray shark teeth, and a tiny mako or two. Beautiful day and lots of exercise! Birdsong impressive! Saw no amphibians today. Hope some of the stuff that is drying is real interesting, if not it will end up on my driveway.
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Went out to the beach, water was up and dirty, wind had been from east pushing tide up into the river, and the moon wasn't creating a low tide. At least I got some exercise, and a sunburnt neck and shoulder, and a dozen nondescript sand tiger teeth, small, no cusps, beaten. Decided to try a Rapp creek in the woods. Kids had been active over the Holiday weekend. A good sign that they are interested, people have been hunting roughly the same spots for over 50 years. Lots of frogs out, water low, HOT but while more humid than the beach and no breeze, some shade from the sun. Worked two spots for over two hours. More gravel and rocks than the more usual shell bits and sand, hoped for some bigger teeth but about the same as usual. No angel shark teeth and only a few drum teeth (maybe I missed them?) Only one vert, some skate teeth, a few glossy steinkern pieces, some "whale" bone and Tilly bones, lots of sand tiger spikes, a few gray , requiem and lemon shark teeth and possibly some small non-serrated mako? (broken). Finally found a cowshark tooth, hadn't found any in a month? Fun trip.
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Combined teeth from two trips, first to the creek, then to the beach. Quantity was better in the creek at least for small and broken teeth. Found a 1 1/2" pretty mako/great white on the beach, a few shrimp coprolite burrows, and the porpoise tooth. Cowshark from the usual spot, but broken, tips missing. Some drum teeth and a few angel shark teeth as well, and a neat little 'winged' vertebra, may take some more photos. Lots of people out with the nice weather. Don't think the fish are biting although the ospreys are very active, may switch to fishing from tooth hunting soon.
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Found this nice symphyseal cowshark tooth brought back in material from Brownies Beach from May 2017. Took over 18 months to go through all the material.
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Went into the woods and hunted the creek some, major rain shuffled stuff up. Found a whole scallop, the two shells together for a million years but fell down with my bucket, broke the pectan apart, broke one, and also two partially broken ecphora are now wholely broken (fortunately I'm not broken). May have lost a few teeth as well. Found at least one broken cowshark (possibly three?), and several angel shark teeth, a few drum (probably more when the other stuff in the bucket dries) and mostly tiny teeth. The most interesting find was a black vertabra with weird paired processes on each side. Lots of water in the creek, but a nice day for hunting!
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Been away for a while. The kids(?) have dug out much of the creek bank where I had been hunting, so I tried a few additional spots. The creek was low from minimal rain the last week (wet overall year). Less mosquitoes, more frogs (two bronze stripes, Leopard frogs?) Both the temperature and humidity had fallen and I stayed longer than usual. Highlights were a root-less but nice cow shark tooth and a hemipristis (hadn't seen any this year); many broken. Three angel shark teeth (probably more of those and drum teeth once they all dry). Mostly sand shark spikes, but one may be a small ventral great white/mako. One nice vertebra, but pieces of much bigger ones. Small number of tiny teeth, probably find more in bucket when it dries. Penny is 19 mm in diameter.
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Hey everyone! I haven't posted on the forum for a looonggg time, but here I am again Winters in the Netherlands and Belgium suck, and hunting in the freezing cold isn't everything, so I was very happy that the weather is finally getting better, just in my vacation from university! Took the opportunity to go hunting right away, and we certainly didn't regret it (although we didn't expect to find much!) We went hunting twice and I hope we can go a few times more next week Our best find was probably a S. microcephalus, couldn't be happier when I saw it! It's our first of that species We also found a C. escheri, which is a first too (love the little cusplets on this tooth) We came across a N. cepedianus in our sifter too, and although we found some specimens of that species before, this is probably the most whole and perfect of them all! Will be continued in next post
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Back to the same hole I have been mining. Really nice weather, which brought out the mosquitoes. Found lots of sand shark, some bull/ dusky shark, several more angel shark, and the smallest cowshark tooth I've ever found (and a small one with big root and small tooth that I don't recognize). I looked hard in the area where I found the ulna with quill attachments last week and did find more bone pieces, and busted teeth(?). Many were "whale bone" (including two pieces that were one earlier, fit together well) but two were more interesting, although non-descript. I'll try to add some better pictures of those two. 2-16-18-teeth.pdf 2-16-18-tiny-teeth.pdf 2-16-18-bone.pdf 2-16-18-bone2.pdf
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I didn't think we would get out this weekend, my daughter's birthday was on Saturday and I knew that the Mid-Atlantic Fossil and Nature Club was going to be at Stratford Hall...but with nothing else to do today, we decided to head down. We arrived at dead high tide and once again, the water was higher than we ever saw it before...there was hardly any beach. I felt sorry for the folks that shelled out money for the M-AF&NC, spending over $100 to get access to areas that were in many cases, under water. I did hear that there were some cool finds, a big croc tooth and some 2"+ Makos. I also heard that Dr. Weems was excavating a 4' whale skull, I'm signed up to attend an event with him in a few weeks so I can't wait to ask about it. Well, we settled in to sift...and sift and sift some more. We were finding the typical small stuff, nothing spectacular but still fun. I sifted up a baby Meg, too bad it was broken. Seeing the cusp on the side was pretty cool. My wife found what looks like to be some more turtle material and then on her last two scoops, a nice snaggletooth and a cow shark tooth. Total Haul. Baby Meg, love the cusp! Too bad it wasn't whole. Cow Shark...last scoop of the day! Unknown, possibly turtle? Side 1. Side 2
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Spent a couple of hours on a small beach, lots of whale bone but guess the teeth are pretty much picked over. Very pleasant 'hunting', no bugs, no black leaves, just lots of shells. Then went back to my creek spot for a few more hours and was rewarded with a decent mako (small chip) and a broken cow shark tooth.
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This tiny sevengill shark tooth is the smallest I have ever found. At 8mm as a lower tooth it must have been a juvenile or even new born shark.
