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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: Texas Eocene
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From the album: Neutache Shoreline - Sharks & Fish
A few raylets held together by chalk. This likely eroded out of the chalk formations of Kansas. Glacial deposits, E Kansas Q4 2023© CC BY-NC
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Trying to figure out what I found on the beach. Location: Charleston, South Carolina seems most like a sawfish vert based on some of the illustrations I found, but there are less images Online of those than shark and other fish.
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Hi all 👋🏼 I keep finding these on the beach… not sure if they are just shell fragments? Sorry in advance if they are. But I thought they may resemble worn down ray mouth plates/fragments? One of them has distinct ridges that resemble ray teeth (#3 - with the red arrow pointing to it). A few others also have ridges that aren’t as clear. They all seem to have a somewhat similar overall appearance (one smooth side and one rough side) .. Thanks in advance! also adding a few closer views of #3
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Also found these on East coast florida beaches. Are most of them bone fragments? Anything interesting or identifiable? I tried my best to get good quality pics that show detail. Found a lot of the long skinny pieces that might be ray spines? Thanks so much in advance
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Back to what I know well! Kind of an up and down day. More people at the spot than I’d want, but beggars can’t be choosers 🤷🏻♂️. It was a beautiful day for fossil hunting. Great gravel bars today, but not much fossil action and next to no sea glass in comparison. This area hasn’t seen much influential weather over the last few weeks, so I couldn’t be expecting much. Its been pretty dry lately. I cant help but get my hopes up though! A couple nice sand tigers, quite a few ray plates and such. Felt like a somewhat meh day, after the highlight being a pretty cool wrasse fish mouth plate. That is, until I found these croc teeth in about a 20 minute span towards the end of the trip! Awesome! Well… more like 1.5 croc teeth, but you get the picture! These croc teeth and the wrasse fish mouth plate are truly some quality finds on a bit of a roller coaster of a day. Looking forward to some more warm and sunny hunts like this one in the future.
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Hello again! Went on my first planned fossil hunting trip with a local club, this was to Stratford Cliffs. And I got to say, I will be back again for sure. What an incredible opportunity this was, on a day that could not have been any better for fossil hunting. This was a refreshing pause to all of my Paleocene trips lately, as much as I love finding Otodus Obliquus teeth. This trip was out of my comfort zone, but a welcomed one! It starts out with everyone meeting at a local point in the park, signing waivers, and then we are unleashed upon the beach! There were large Tiger and Bull shark teeth everywhere I looked it seemed! Always fun to pick up one every few feet, however after a bit I was beginning to feel left out in terms of the truly large tooth department, a bit of a bummer in the moment. An hour went by until I noticed the “hump” of a tooth barely showing above the sand, I flicked it with my finger and out pops this incredible 1.5 inch lower hemi! Truly phenomenal find and I felt I was finally on the board for what I was expecting. 5 hours out in the sun, each seemingly better than the last, as I collected teeth, finding 3 out of 4 of the hastalis along about 10-15 feet of beach, was surreal at times. To top off a tiresome, but fulfilling trip, I found the dolphin and sperm whale tooth on my walk back! A crazy variety of fossils were found, I didn’t expect to stay as long as I did, but I barely was able to scrape myself off the beach! This trip was TOTALLY worth the money and then some. I would highly recommend looking up some trips with local clubs in your area. While results may vary due to weather or tides, the experience in itself, going to a new beach or site, meeting new interesting people, and the possibility of finding something amazing is worth it!
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Micro Fossil Finds: Bone Valley
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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From the album: Florida Fossil Finds: Peace River, Venice, and Key West
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First I've ever found. What do you think?
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Another one of my finds from Flag Ponds Nature Park. Is this a dermal denticle? This is the first time I’ve found one of these and the only thing I can find online that is close to matching is a dermal denticle. I say it’s the first one I’ve found, but I’m pretty sure if I would’ve been checking the shell beds a bit better I would’ve found more by now. If it is one, is there a way to tell what it came from? Thank you in advance.
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I took a trip down to Flag Ponds yesterday and the finds were plentiful, but so were the midges. Little tiny gnats that love to teach you what true pain is were out in mass for the full 6 hours that I stayed. I managed to push through being eaten and managed to get some stuff to add to my collection. CoralBone FragsSharks TeethRay Plates( My favorites )Misc Some of the Misc fossils I’ll be listing for identification help. I’ve figure most of them out, but a few are questionable to me. The bottom one in the misc pic is a little ray plate in a rock matrix. I’ve never found any in a rock matrix before and honestly thought that all the ones from Calvert just came out of the clay as it eroded. Now I’ll probably be picking up every rock on the beach just to make sure that it doesn’t have a fossil in it.
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I spent the day yesterday along Calvert Cliffs. It was a beautiful sunshine day and the water was crystal clear. I was pretty shocked at how many people were out on a Monday, normally there aren’t many people to talk to and it was a nice change. Even with so many people out and letting some kids pick some from my stash, I still managed to walk away with a decent take for the day. Bone fragsCoralShark teeth, ray plates, and miscWell worn dolphin tooth?shark vertebrae
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Sharks and Rays
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Sharks and Rays
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Sharks and Rays
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