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Stratford Hall Fossil Hunting Excursion #3! And finds from a previous Aquia trip!
Atoothsatooth42 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I can’t stay away from these trips at the great Stratford Hall! Trip #3 was a solid success! Guided this time by the butterflies natural enemy, this very large wolf spider who greeted us at the visitors center. Same rules and boundaries apply, safety talk and we are off to the races on the beach! It was an excellent day weather and tide wise. My partner and I doing our best to keep pace with the paleo-guides while stopping at every few rock pile and gravel bar. The the usual suspects being found along the way. That is until a familiar shape caught my eye, it was a meg! A hubbell meg in fact, an awesome find for my first non-pea sized meg! Unfortunately, this meg has only a shred of enamel left on the bottom corner of the blade, but I’ll take it! Upon our turn back, I scoured the rock piles in the shallow surf, noticing a glimmer of pale grey-blue shining back up at me, it was this awesome 1.5 inch hastalis, another personal best for me. My finds are on the left, and my partners on the right. Looks like there aren’t really anymore SH trips open to the public going around for the remainder of the year, so I guess I’ll be looking forward to next years trips, and will be on my own until then 🤷🏻♂️ I can deal with that! If there are any other clubs going however, please feel free to let me know! Also included in this report are a couple Otodus that I found during a trip when the river was still surging from previous storms. Not much was found during that trip, so enjoy the extra pics! One Otodus being heavily worn, and the other is an EXCELLENT little specimen that was among the last teeth I found that day.
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From the album: "Twilight Zone", Sharktooth Hill, Bakersfield
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From the album: "Twilight Zone", Sharktooth Hill, Bakersfield
© dinoshark
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Hey, been a while, so i decided to start a new topic for the new year. Headed out on Thursday 25/01 to the river shores in Antwerp again. First hunt of the year since i've worked non-stop so far and a contractor is rebuilding our house.. It was great being out again so i was already pleased on beforehand, finding some nice teeth made it even better 😁 here's some in situ pics.. Rolled C. hastalis C. hastalis in excellent shape my first Parotodus benedeni ever, not in great shape but an awesome find anyway 😀 Finally a complete 6cm C. hastalis VID20240125131132.mp4 And some random mammal teeth Had a great first hunt of the year, and I already feel like going back! oh yeah, here's the whole lot cleaned up.. Surprised about how many different species i got covered this time 😄 Grtz, Dries
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So I’ve visited the forum a few times while trying to figure out how everyone finds their big teeth but this will be my first post. I started collecting sharks teeth just shy of a year ago. Since I found out about GMR that’s where most of my hunting has been done and these are random pics of my better stuff. It also somewhat shows the progression of my finds. The megs are all somewhat recent and all from the same hole.
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From the album: "Twilight Zone", Sharktooth Hill, Bakersfield
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From the album: "Twilight Zone", Sharktooth Hill, Bakersfield
© dinoshark
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From the album: "Twilight Zone", Sharktooth Hill, Bakersfield
© dinoshark
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'Twilight Zone' from Sharktooth Hill, Bakersfield, California
dinoshark posted a topic in Member Collections
hey everyone, i was able to visit sharktooth hill at bakersfield and with two trips so far, found over 200 teeth (~140 complete ones) and some cool looking isolated bones. i will post here as more finds come in. i found and dig at a spot where there is a tendency to find shark teeth fossils where the teeth are preserved with sunset multicolors - primarily purple / violet / blue in the broader regions of the crown, and red / orange / yellow closer to sharp tips on the crown. although occurrence of purple shark teeth are common in this spot, you can also find other colors preserved in teeth, including warmer color teeth like red, orange, pink, yellow teeth and also occasionally white and black teeth. i noticed there are some STH teeth that resemble this purple/blue-orange/yellow combo already out there, so this 'zone' is not only found at the spot i dig at, but appears elsewhere around bakersfield. as there are 'firezone' shark teeth currently floating around, i'd like to add to a new and fun distinction to shark teeth that embody multiple colors you would see on a sunset - 'twilight zone' teeth. i'll start off with a few photos i compiled - they take a lot of time to shoot and edit so i'll try to add more to this topic in new replies as i make time. please play along in case the specimen names come off a bit odd i might have had too much fun naming them (i prefer unique names over serialized codes) - please don't let me be the only one who names their favorite fossil finds hemipristis serra from day one, i love how the yellow serrations contrast against the blue under good lighting probably tie for favorite find so far, this cosmopolitodus planus was crazy colorful and vibrant coming out of the ground, and thankfully retained much of its coloring cosmopolitodus hastalis "cardinal" is the biggest tooth i've found so far. now this was a headscratcher - it is basically an equilateral triangle of a tooth, crown is very broad, proportional and short. the root of this tooth was a bit weathered as when found, but a shelf could still be identifiable from certain lighting angles. had asked for id and deemed isurus retroflexus. a nice crisp carcharhinus egertoni requiem shark tooth. id deemed egertoni. and this physogaleus contortus was a curious one to find, with a band of manganese slung around it like a wrestler's champion belt. and more to come!
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I went out yesterday to find some teeth, and instead I found that the water level was about two feet higher than normal and the current was ripping. But I was determined, and I'm glad I was, because in my nearly 4 years of hunting this creek this was the most productive. Very early on we found a root of a large hastalis, I thought that was weird, as normally the roots are all that's missing, but give it 30 minutes, and up comes the blade, which would fit perfectly, except that both have clay matrix on the broken area that has to be cleaned off, but that means they have been broken since way before we got there. This is already better than what we usually get, we soon get a small meg corner frag (we don't find the rest unfortunately). The real magic happens when we return to the spot after going farther downstream (we came back as a bottleneck in the creek was making the currents twice as bad) and almost immediately find (what I believe to be) a tapir tooth! I have a separate id thread on that with more pictures. And then right before we are about to leave, we get a dolphin tooth! It was an overall great hunt, hope you enjoyed.
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First of all I will make it clear that I have no idea how to spell some of these names, I tried Google but it didn't understand what I was trying to say, so these are just guesses that sound about right. So my question is what are the different makos (by this I mean modern makos, hastalis, desori, and any others you can name) and how do identify them from each other? Thanks!
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I took a trip up to Summerville this weekend and had a pretty successful trip, pulling out my best SC meg so far, and and a heartbreaker angustidens and deseri, here's the finds.
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Finally got on another tour at the illustrious Stratford cliffs! It was a fantastic day for hunting, cloudy, mid-80s and low tide! With all of these great conditions however, the gravel bars were unexpectedly slim, and the finds were a bit on the lower side compared to last time around. Regardless, I came home with quite a few nice finds! The trip was with the museum staff this time around, but same story as far as how it was ran, show up, sign waivers, drive down to the outlook point, a safety talk, and off to the beach! My first substantial find was this very nice nearly 1.5 lower mako, along with the standard nice bulls and tigers mixed in. I tried both sides of the beach this time, and found that it was about equal in finds. I stayed most of the allotted time on the beach. Found another couple very nice lower hemis, along with a HUGE shamer hemi. Big bummer but I will take it anyway I can get it. I had a pretty interesting black and blue tour guide butterfly lead me to my finds for certain parts of the tour as well! I also came across what I believe to be the smallest Meg that I have ever seen, it also happens to be my possible first that I have ever found in the 15 years I have enjoyed this hobby! Great day all in all, and I can’t wait for the fall trips to start up!
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I got these Hastalis teeth from a local "Meg Ledge" diver. I'm not completely clear on the I. Hastalis vs. C. Hastalis, broad form vs. narrow form, etc. controversy. My understanding is the North Carolina "Meg Ledges" are all Pungo River formation. Does that narrow down which Mako/White Shark these teeth are? The larger tooth is flat and broad when compared to the smaller one, which is more narrow and thick/robust. Same species, different jaw position, different size shark?
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I figured I hadn't posted a trip in a while, so I went out today and the creek provided! My best finds were a posterior Great white and a two inch on-the-dot hastalis, the second largest in my collection, we also got some nice sand tigers and bulls...
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From the album: Fin Lover's South Carolina Finds
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Recently got back from a trip on Holden Beach, and just WOW. Words can't describe the uniqueness of being able to find Mosasaur teeth next to Megalodon teeth. The recent Hurricane brought in many new fossils and I had quite good luck. Here are some photos of the trip, I will post a picture showing all of my best finds shortly, but for now enjoy! First, here are some of the Squalicorax pristodontus teeth I collected. These were relatively common.
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I need help with a couple of ID's.... The first one is a shark tooth, from the east coast of the USA - most likely from the Meg ledge. I'm not sure if it's a Carcharodon or Isurus tooth. The root shape looks more Isurus-ish but I'm not 100% which is why I'm asking here. The other one is an awesome Mosasaur tooth in matrix (Moroccan in origin, if that wasn't obvious haha)... does anyone know the genus of this tooth? It doesn't look like the typical Prognathodon teeth often seen in natural matrix. The other fossils within this matrix have me very curious too.... can anyone ID the shark tooth and other random fossils? There is a good size chunk of bone in there too. The hourglass(ish) shaped fossil might be a vertebra ...?
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Hello. I am here with another unknown shark tooth. This one I personally found. For a while I believed it to be from Hastalis, but I have doubts after searching it up. It is around 5-3 million years old. It was also found alongside what I believe to be a Scylirhinoid vertebrae.
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I had some time to get back out to the cliffs on Saturday, the wind was rough and it was calling for rain after 10am, so kayaking wasn’t an option and I wanted to be off the beach before the rain got bad. I parked and walked down to the beach a half hour before sunrise to begin my search. As expected the water was very rough, and very murky. I knew I wouldn’t be able to find much of anything below the tide line, and it would be hard to be able to grab something out of the wash before another wave hit. I moved quickly checking the higher shell line and found some decent teeth but nothing to special, until I found what would have been a nice megalodon but a large chunk of the tip was missing, I also found a nice epiphysis disk and shark vertebra before turning around. I didn’t know what my luck would be like on the walk back but I was still hopeful the rough water would wash up something great. Then I got my find of the day when a 1.81” hastalis washed up in front of me. Before getting back to the truck a got another heartbreaking megalodon fragment and another nice hastalis. The conditions were rough, and I was getting a little aggravated feeling like I was missing so much, it also didn’t help that the waves were soaking me even with my waders. Non the less it’s always good to get out and check the beach when I can because you never know which wave will wash up that find of a lifetime. Thanks for reading y’all, until next time!
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Heartbreakers and Trip Makers Along the Calvert Cliffs
Bjohn170 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I got back out to the Calvert Cliffs to do some more hunting yesterday, the low tide wasn’t till noon so I got to the beach around 9am to begin my search. I had more beach than I was expecting which was a pleasant surprise but the wind made the water a little choppy and murky. With it being a weekday there was only one other person out on the beach walking ahead of me. I was careful not to walk in their footsteps, searching the spots they passed when I see a root poking out of the sand, I move the sand out of the way to unearth a beautiful 1.75” broad hastalis! A great start, I really didn’t need to find much else to make to the trip, and it was only the first find! I continue on and eventually the person ahead of me decided to turn back, leaving me a lot of unsearched beach ahead. I found some nice hemis and a dolphin tooth, then I spot what I thought was a chunk of bone rolling in the wash. I pick it up to reveal the corner chunk of a massive megalodon, it looks like it would have been at least 4”. Absolute heartbreaker, but it’s still neat to find and gets my hopes up for the future. Soon after my hopes were realized when I spot a gorgeous 2” megalodon/chubutensis wedged between some clay blocks, unmoved by the waves rolling over it. At this point I was at the end of the beach and ready to begin my walk back, already very happy with my finds so far, and the waves were mixing everything up so I still had hope for another good find. Not too long after turning around, I spot what looked like a large root of an odontocete tooth rolling in the wash, I scoop up and reveal what I believe a 1.8” squalodon tooth, unfortunately a good portion of the crown is broken off so I’m not sure. While the break on the crown is heartbreaking it’s still an amazing find and I was quite ecstatic. The day wasn’t done yet though, before I got back to the truck I found a nice shark vertebra, and a little beat up meg/chub. It was a great day out on the bay and even though I had some heartbreakers, I definitely had a couple trip makers! Thanks for reading y’all, till next time.
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Hello everyone my name is Bonnie, I am new to this group, but not new to fossil hunting, I have hunted fossils along the east coast of Virginia in my entire life but really became engulfed in the last three years, I look forward to sharing my findings and learning more each day🥰
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From the album: Fossils
This is my largest mako (now considered an extinct white shark). It measures 3.16 inches and was found in the Lee Creek Mine Pliocene Yorktown Formation.-
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The child in me doesn’t like working on my birthday, so I like to take the day off to try to get out on the beach for a hunt. We had some crazy weather the days before with wind gusts up to 60mph! It had my hopes high to find myself a large tooth for my birthday. So yesterday me and my girlfriend got up early to kayak out on the bay to watch the sunrise before going to the cliff to start our hunt. It was a beautiful morning and the water was nice and calm, it’s hard to believe there was 6 foot waves not but a day and a half before. Once we land, after only about 15 minutes on the beach and I find an amazing 1.79” megalodon! And before I could catch up with my girlfriend to show her, I spot a really nice 1.72” hastalis tumbling in the water! We continue on with the finds slowing down after passing some fellow fossil hunters on the beach, but still finding some nice smaller teeth in the wash. I found another decent hastalis right as we turned around and a really nice shark vertebra before we got back to the kayaks. It was a great morning and I can’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. I may not have got that big tooth I’ve been hunting for, but I definitely can’t complain the the great haul I ended up with! Thanks for reading, see y’all next time!
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Found these teeth from Batesford Quarry which is late Oligocene to middle Miocene. I am confident that they are C. Hastalis but would appreciate a second opinion.
