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  1. Just wanted to give my fellow fossil hunters a heads up. Was at Green Mill Run the other day and looks like new residents have called it home — snapping turtles. Saw two of them and of course they blend well into the creek. Could've lost my finger when I picked up something almost front of it . Any way, beautiful creatures, but very careful as they can be hard to spot in the water
  2. fossil_lover_2277

    Whale rib fragment, North Carolina, U.S.A., 2021

    From the album: Lando’s Fossil Collection

    Collected from Greens Mill Run, Greenville, NC.

    © Lando_Cal_4tw

  3. Anchiornis

    Greens Mill Run

    Hi all, it's been a long time since I posted here. I'm thinking about going to Greens Mill Run (Greenville, NC) next weekend. Would the water levels be about right or might it not be a good idea?
  4. Hey everyone, I'll be in Wilmington, North Carolina for a wedding next week and I'm super excited to check out GMR for the first time. I expect the water will be frigid, to say the least. Does anyone in the area know how high the water level is now? I know a guy who may have hip waders or boots I could borrow, but it would be a huge bummer if we got there and I found out the water level was too high for either of those. They're too bulky to pack in carry-on luggage, so bringing my own pair isn't an option. On that note, if anyone knows of a place nearby (Greenville or Wilmington) where I could potentially rent chest waders, that would be amazing- I looked around online, to no avail.
  5. TaterSaurus

    Need Help to Identify

    Hello. I came across this fossil recently while at GMR in Greenville, North Carolina. I was hoping someone would be able to tell me what it came from & what part. My friend I went with thought it was some sort of jawbone piece. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
  6. Hi again. I have another one for you. I think I could tell if it wasn't broken! Found in green mill run. It is 1.5 inches or 3.8 cm. There is a definite ridge on one side. I tried to get a good picture of its location, the cavity seems slightly oval. Thank you again! I really appreciate you all teaching and helping me!
  7. Had a pretty productive afternoon on Sunday. No large teeth but tons of small ones and lots of bone. One partial shark vert! Some...seeds? That I'm not sure on. Along with one other thing that I'm not sure on.
  8. AshHendrick

    Whale Petrosal Confirmation, please?

    Another find this weekend, actually Rick found it but let me bring it home, want to confirm that it's a petrosal and also what species based on my research I believe it to be. Found: Greensmill Run, Greenville NC among a huge array of items (whale bone including several tempanic bulla, shark teeth (great white, tiger,crow, Giant White Shark etc) and two Enchodus teeth etc. Believed to be a Petrosal from Balaenoptera Sursiplana? I thought (from one specific article/image reference below) that is was possibly Plesiobalaenoptera but it noted they are only found in Italy and the long flat part seemed much thicker than the reference image, but the rest seemed better matched than from the other species noted above?
  9. stellabear

    Green Mill Run

    Hi all. I found this in green mill run in Greenville NC. I don't know what it is but since it has the same enamel look of a tooth I kept it. I hope there is enough of it there for someone to have an idea of what it is! In inches it is about 1.25 and centimeters 3.175. Thank you very much!!
  10. stellabear

    Tooth? Found in Green Mill Run

    Hi all. I am sure this is an easy one for you but I would like to be sure, since my guess is only a guess! I apologize that the only measuring tape I had was in inches, but i believe it is just under 35 mm. Found in the green mill run. Near the tar river in Greenville NC USA Thank you!
  11. Good evening everyone, I recently did some fossil hunting in the Green Mill Run river in Greenville, NC. The water was pretty low - ankle/shin deep most of the time. I'm pretty new to fossil identification so figured you guys could help me out. Location: Green Mill Run, NC Date: July 2020 Excavation process: Shovel to river bed The first looks like a jaw with teeth indentations. It's about 1.9" (50mm) with brownish coloration. Additional photos below.
  12. Found this tooth today. It is the best fossil I have ever found!! I am ecstatic about it. I found it just laying under a pipe in GMR in Greenville, NC. Approaching 3"
  13. PLB9eight

    GMR find

    Found this at GMR and have no clue what if anything it is. Seems like more than just a stone but maybe that’s it. Anyone have any guesses?
  14. Unclechallie

    Bone, Tooth ???

    Curious to find ID for this piece found this month in Green Mill Run creek
  15. So I took a trip to GMR in Greenville, NC. Green springs park is currently closed and by the looks of it, i guess for a while. The entire creek took a beating with down trees that lay across the creek in many places. South of green springs park is still very deep, maybe 6 or 7 feet. I did manage to find access about 1/4 of a mile north of the park. This area was anywhere from ankle high to thigh deep, and I'm 6'3". I stumbled onto some pretty awesome finds as well as whale bone central, bulla's, baby intact meg teeth. For regular visitors of the creek, its going to look alot different. And from what i came across today, i plan on revisiting the spot next week. Water wasnt very cold either. Just wanted to spread the word.
  16. AshHendrick

    Pearly Whites for Great Whites!

    I had a good weekend on the river this past Saturday and Sunday. I did some fishing and scouting for new dig spots. I have yet to find my own place where 1. no one else knows/digs that I am networked with 2. that produces decent quality and OK quantity. Saturday evening that was checked off from my fossil hunting bucket list, though. I plugged down the river in my lil 14' jon boat, saw some shells atop a bank that looked familiar to the fossil pecten in edgecomb county and made a quick dash to the shore! I had quite the struggle among the brush and trees between myself and these barely visible shells - but I made it, grabbed a very nice C. madisonius with some little barnacles atop of it. As I'm climbing down I spot something embedded in the rock/hardened clay and got so excited I literally laughed out loud. MEGLADON TOOTH! -This I was not expecting, but welcomed! I pried it out, really neat color and sadly chipped away about a third - but still in good condition and a promising sign as I looked around and also found two beautiful little great whites almost pearly white! Such unique colored teeth for this part of eastern NC as normally my finds, like GMR, are darker grays and blacks and then you have the aurora teeth and hour east that these appeared more like in color but still different. I would love to know the minerals responsible for this coloration here. Anyhow, I returned with my Good digging partner, Rick, Sunday and we found a few more things that were alright. More to explore - more to come I'm sure!
  17. Sunday, 12/18/2016, will be a day documented with great detail in my personal memory bank. As you read this, keep in mind, I am one of those people who remain in constant awe of the world around me; curiously exploring every little detail, often finding excitement in the things most would consider average or common. Every Trip I’ve made to Greens Mill Run these past three years has been one of such joy, excitement and inspiration – regardless of what treasures (and junk) I had found or imagined to find. 12/18/16 9:15 AM – I arrive to my usual parking spot, which I frequent most weekends and week day evenings through the spring summer months that the sun lasts long enough to get a few screens in after getting off work at 5pm. I am seriously addicted and will never be ashamed to admit it! ( of course, I miss the occasional weekend to go on fossil trips with groups in other places OR because of lil pesky hurricanes, like Matthew, flooding me out). Rain, cold, heat nor physical discomfort can keep me from going at least one day out of a weekend to get my dig on, and most of all – to find my peace of mind within the tiny spot of nature found near the heart of a small city. I meet up with my favorite digging friend, Rick – who was in shock of the damage the city did along GMR to clear out the fallen trees within the creek. They had been clearing a wide road to fit a back hoe an extensive distance deep into the woods, just beside the stream, to remove the multitude of fallen trees left behind by Matthew. While they may have destroyed the beauty and protection of the banks – I do owe them some thanks for breaking up a couple banks in the process, releasing treasures! We poked around and walked up stream slowly, heading towards I place we both wanted to hit up, a spot I didn’t have time to get into last weekend. I knew there were still things to be found - I had spent about 20 hours total there two weekends ago and still kept finding stuff. Within the week days since the weekend prior, they removed the fallen tree I wanted to dig by, pulling it up out of the stream. As I walked up, looking over the damaged bank and released potential, I look to my right (at 10:00 am) and cannot post here the exact words that came out of my mouth – but I will elude to it .. “Holy…” and Rick, right behind me, immediately sees what I’m looking at, exclaiming “I .... hate you” jokingly. I wouldn’t have believed it and neither would he had one of us came upon this discovery alone. Laying there in the clear water, glistening in the sun as it rested on hardened clay, was my very first complete, serrated and large Megladon tooth. She is a true beauty. We snapped photos in the water, where she lay, and then in hand – texting them to a couple people, bragging etc – it being quite "the find". It only took about 3 years of consistent trips to finally find my very own GMR meg in remarkable condition of such size!! I kept digging. I found an AMAZING great white two hours later and a few smaller GW, Mako, Crow, tiger etc that are common for GMR (but still exciting to me each and every time I see one in my screen!). Leaving around 2 pm, the love story of Mr. Ash and his first remarkable Meg followed. We went home, I had a shower and my Meg had a bubble bath (I’m mildly OCD and have to disinfect everything I bring home). Then, we went out for dinner, my Meg and I (oh and the GF) to celebrate! I wanted steak – we went to Ribeyes (AMAZING STEAK FYI). I got us a salad, but Meg said she doesn’t eat rabbit food and would wait for the main course. Meg was a bit testy with the cook when they informed her that they do not serve Whale, but we settled on a nice medium ribeye. Julie, my lovely lady with such kind heart-ed tolerance for my fossil obsession, drove us into the sunset, my meg and I – hand in..tooth…holding it..erm – to get a milk shake from Arbys. We ordered some chocolate shake goodness and we headed home! True love. (my GF getting slightly jealous at this point as I never share my shakes with her) And finally, after such a long exciting day – we got tucked in for a good night’s rest before meeting all of my coworkers the following morning. Any fossil lover can relate to the pure excitement and euphoria of their first meg find. I hope you can appreciate the visual representation of what loving a Meg, found after searching for so long, would be like J
  18. Weekend find, date may have been 18th not the 19th, working to verify with dig partner. Found: Greens Mill Run, Greenville NC among a huge array of items (whale bone including several tempanic bulla, shark teeth (great white, tiger,crow, Giant White Shark etc) and two Enchodus teeth etc. Partner I was digging with found it (we were digging same location/hole together) in his screen and let me keep it. Boesse Confirmed an ID on ID Forum "Nice specimen! This is almost certainly Balaenula sp., a dwarf right whale known from the Yorktown Fm. at Lee Creek. It's a miniature version of Eubalaena in that image at the top (which is from my blog)."
  19. From the album: GMR Finds

    Conservation Status: Vunerable Scientific Classification: Species: Carcharodon Carcharias Formation: Yorktown Period: Miocene to Recent Found: April 16, 2016 at Green Mill Run in Greenville, NC
  20. From the album: GMR Finds

    Conservation Status: Extinct Scientific Classification: Family: Anacoracidae Genus: Squalicorax Species: TBD Fossil Period: Late Cretaceous Epoch (70 to 83.5 million years old) Fossil Formation: Pee Dee Formation Formation: Yorktown (within Greenville, NC) Formation Period: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. Found: November of 2015 at GMR in Greenville, NC
  21. AshHendrick

    GMR Belemnites

    From the album: GMR Finds

    Conservation Status: Extinct Scientific Classification: Family: Belemnitellidae Genus: Belemnite/ Belemnitella Species: Belemnitella Common Name: Belemnite Fossil Period: Late Cretaceous Formation: Yorktown (within Greenville, NC) Formation Period: Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. Found: Frequently at Green Mill Run in Greenville, NC
  22. Thefossiltrader

    Comparision And Opinion 1St Day!

    It is my 5th day fossil hunting and I belive that looking for fossils is much like looking for relics just alot less expensive. In this way I mean, you go out and buy a thousand dollar machine just to look for say civil war relics, but for fossil hunting all you have is your time,gas, and cost of the sifter if you use one, now by my book that only around $960 cheaper. With that being said I would like to introduce myself, my name is matt I live in Winterville NC and I have been a civil war relic hunter for almost 9 years now, I have traveled the east coast looking for relics and have been in over 23 different states and recovered history, I also have a great deal of my relics in museums, vistors centers, and schools across the US. Metal detecting is fun as can be anything but I always make sure that I have the permission of the landowner or the state official before I procede to dig anywhere, this will ensure and I am sure its the same in fossil hunting that the hobby stays in good standing for a long time. Just recently a good friend of mine that I hunt relics with in the state of Maryland got me introduced in the world of fossil hunting, he hunts the "calvert cliffs" in maryland quite a bit as well as has a good size collection in the calvert county museum. He took me to the Aurura fossil fesitval in 2010 for the 1st time, and I have to say that I had a blast, I had no idea that there were even such teeth as big as the ones that I saw and had no idea that this many people were involved in fossil hunting. Well I had to go, I had caught the itch and the little spoilage piles at the event just were not easing the pain of seeing all those HUGE teeth. I knew deep down I wasnt gonna find a 6 incher my first day, but it was always nice to think of such. A day after the return to Greenville and 300 tiny sharkteeth later I figured that me and my neighboor would go try GMR "Green Mill Run" in Greenville NC. Now I grew up only 2 miles from GMR and knew about it the whole time it just never registered that it had fossils in it. The 1st day there again we really didnt know what we were doing and this was only my 2nd time ever looking fossils. Sure we found some by digging and sifting but again all baby teeth. Well after about 7 hours of my back throbbing and again alot of small teeth we decided to call it quits. Upon getting home I was starting to reconsider my fossil hunting adventures and think that this might not be for me. Got online and asked to meet up with some better knowleged people and maybe learn a few skills from them. Sunday roles around and I figured I would go out one last time and try it on my own this way, there would be noisy neighboor talking and I could concentrate until my help arrived, walked down to the creek in the same spot and started digging and sifting small tooth after small tooth and when I say small I mean like 1/8 of an inch. 4 hours later I finally see someone walking down the creek with a shovel and a sifter, so out I come and I start following him. I didnt want to take his secret spot or annoy the man just wanted to see if it was the person that I had talked to on the internet the night before. Finally I caught up to him and he was just as nice as he could be explaining that he drove all the way from Tenn. just to come hunt GMR, he told me about the differnent fossils and what to look for, feel for and how to dig. After seeing him pull a monosaur tooth at about 1 1/2" I wanted to dig, so I picked a spot beside an old fallen tree and started digging... At first the same results small teeth and bone, THEN my first actual big tooth, now what I was considering big was anything bigger than an 8th of an inch,lol. So I stayed right in that spot pulling good sized teeth out left and right apparently someone had missed that one little spot, it wasnt until the guy that I had spoken to on the internet arrived that I finally realized how many teeth I actually had. This guy was from Raliegh NC and he asked if we were finding anything, I reached in my pocket and to my suprise pulled out about 14 teeth all measuring anywhere from 1" to 2.14" only 4 of these 14 were almost perfect with the root and tooth still intact. Well needless to say I was freaking hooked like fish now. The day finally ended and my total was around 16 or so good sized teeth, but I wasnt done I was gonna come back the next day and hunt that hole out. Monday the 7th myself and 2 frineds go back to that spot where I pulled all the bigger teeth from and start digging, before to long we all are pulling meg chuncks then a few nice GW's here and there. Well one of our buddies had to leave b/c he had to work 3rd shift and had to get some sleep. So we continued to dig I dug out my original hole as big as I could until I was getting into the sand that I had sifted out the day before. I ended up with about 6 more GW teeth, huge bone fragments, meg chunks, fossilized fern print and a snail. Bobby did pretty good as well, he got around 4-5 GW's in great condition and lots of other fossils as well. About the time that we gonna leave a man approached us introduced hiself as a photographer for the Daily Reflector Paper here in Greenville NC and wanted to know if he could take some pics of us. He snapped a few pic and asked a few questions and we answered them to the best of our knowledge, and then all of a sudden we made the front page of the local section that following Thursday. It only took me 7 years to make the paper in Relic Hunting but yet only took 4 days in the fossil world. Anyway this is my story and how I am now a certified relic and fossil hunter. Please sign up as a member on our website forum as well at www.wedigdixie.net Thanks for reading!!
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