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This past weekend in Central VA it was low 70s on Saturday and low 80s on Sunday with an extremely low tide both days, mid-morning. My wife and I, our buddy and 17 y/o son (TFF member Daleksec) and another friend of ours took the boat out on the Pamunkey River Saturday morning for a little fossil hunting / collecting. Since the tide was so low, we decided to start out with some surface hunting at a little beach with a nice Calvert Formation exposure. We immediately hit the jack pot and found some nice sharks teeth and random bone pieces. After finding everything on the surface we all started screening. (This is what my wife and I found Saturday.) The 3 buddies had this much or more in their bags for the day. If anyone knows what this 1" piece of bone that looks like a jaw is, please chime in. After a few hours of collecting and the tide coming in fast, Daleksec noticed an exposed vertebrae on the beach about 6 inches from where I had just picked up a tooth. After some quick exploration this is what we saw. My hand for quick scale. (Yes, I realize everyone's hands are different sized.) We were racing the incoming tide at this point. We didn't know how much of the skeleton was there since we didn't get to explore in either direction. I was pretty sure I saw a humerus and counted 12 vertebrae exposed before we covered it. The tide came in and covered it all about 5 mins after we finished burying the exposed bones in matrix to protect. The bones are literally sitting in the base of the Calvert Formation and right on top of the Old Church Formation. This Old Church exposure is the ONLY Oligocene exposure in VA. Obviously, our fossil plans for Sunday just changed and then we spent the rest of Saturday teasing Daleksec about the raccoons, opossums and deer coming to get "his" skeleton or at least running off with "his" skull. :-) Everyone but he enjoyed the witty banter about "his" disappearing skeleton. With the rising tide we decided to head farther up river to an Eocene / Oligocene contact exposure I know. Checked out the first small area and only 1 small tooth was found. My buddy wanted me to move him around a bunch of overhanging trees and snags. As I dropped him off on the bank (beach all covered by tide at this point), he walks over and picks up THIS!! He gets my attention and said, "I found something. I don't know what it is, but I'm not throwing it away." This is the very 1st Squalodon tooth I've seen found at this Oligocene exposure in 7 years of collecting here. To say I was jealous was an understatement, but I'm glad if someone had to find it and it couldn't be my wife or me, it was him. This pretty much finished up our day and WOW, what a day it was. Sunday in the next post.

My son and I avoided the stores today and headed to the beach for a two hours. It was very crowded (it was a beautiful 80 degree day) but we still managed to come home with some finds - a bunch of teeth (I'm still learning types), a ray barb, three puffer fish plates, drum fish tooth, tilly bone, and more. I would have never known what any of these were if it weren't for this forum. Learning a little at a time. So these finds may not seem like a big deal, but to me, they are Also found this tube (at the bottom of the pic) that under a loupe has a lot of tiny holes - I had never seen one. Just a quick shot with the iPhone as I don't want to get my camera out right now.

Spent a couple of early morning hours on Post Oak Creek this morning trying to beat the heat. We had a little rain the other night so I figured I would give it a shot. Someone posted a couple of weeks ago about snakes but I can tell you I saw less than usual, zero to be exact. The bigger issue is finding access. The usual spot was grown over and the only option was to go down on your rear which doesn't bother me much but once I slid down the challenge was to find a way up the slippery clay but that was something to worry about later. There was an abundance of teeth. There were tons of small foot prints that looked fresh so someone must have been out there yesterday after the Saturday night showers. They must have found the good ones but I did get a good haul of broken teeth with a couple of complete teeth for the display jars. Found a few bone fragments, a partial lobster, three gastropods and a nice bottle.

this is my haul from 2 hours recently on one off my favorite creeks near ft myers, surprisingly the water is still low. hope to go again this week end,

here are a few shots from a hunt today sifting in a creek in the south carolina low country...there were 4 forum members there as well as another

Heres our latest find from a trip to Venice Beach Florida, nothing huge but a nice selection.

We collect these tiny teeth at night . We lay on our stomachs with flash lights to find them . The first time I found them was by accident . We were laying out on the chalk gullies looking at the stars . I rolled over and looked at the chalk with my flash light . Tiny fossils appeared everywhere . Until that night only 2 pseudocorax teeth were in the museum collection . I found 14 that night . I donated all of them to the museum . I recently found these the same way . "NOTE" Collected in the Cretaceous Mooresville Chalk Formation .

I found some local Charleston SC creeks and a tidal river that should produce some sharks teeth if anyone is interested in a dig. Bring whatever you like. I will wear hip waders, carry a screen sifter and hand scoop

Beach finds from today's walks

All kinds of goodies today..

Not sure what these teeth are???

Hello, My name is Gavin and I'm from Iowa. I love to rock hunt and look for fossils wherever I travel. As I was looking through this forum, I discovered that I could not see pics that people were posting. I will be traveling to the Tampa bay area of Florida in March and am looking for great places to find agatized coral and sharks teeth. Also, I will be driving through northern Florida, Southern Georgia. If anyone would have some helpful hints on where to go, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Gavin

Hi Everyone! I am so excited to discover this fabulous forum. I have been an avid sharks' tooth hunter my entire life... I grew up in a family that planned vacations around sharks' teeth and loved nothing more than hunting for arrowheads. I love a treasure hunt of all kinds, actually... metal detecting, shell seeking, etc. We live in Wilmington, NC. There happens to be a tropical storm / hurricane overhead right now, and we are getting up at 5 a.m. to drive to nearby North Topsail to see if the sea kicked up some teeth. It should be low tide and clear skies by then. My dream is to move to Sanibel, FL, where we recently spent a few months. The shell hunting is amazing. (Spent lots of time making sure the tourists did not take the live shells, though!) We have also lived in Ponte Vedra, FL, where the tooth hunting is good. Spent time in Venice, FL and have an upcoming trip planned to Manasota Key. That said... Our family would LOVE to sign up for some fossil hunting trips!! We have kids ages 11 and 13. Would also be interested in meeting up with any fellow fossil hunters. Have never been to Aurora! Anybody know of a good trip for us to plug into? Also - what are the BEST EVER sharks' tooth locations? So interested to know!! Even overseas! Happy to be here and connect with all of you fossil lovers! Loulie

left at 4am this morning for our destination. we arrive 3 hrs later at ant hill. the sun was up and though the weather app said partially cloudy, there was hardly a cloud in the sky. climbed the hill and set up shop in a random pit and went to work. we didn't really know what we were doing or what to look for. we could see pick marks where others had previously dug and i quickly understood why using one was a good idea. man, that stuff was tough! i didn't bring a pick so we were limited to just the loose stuff. we made due and scored some teeth. we found mostly micros and partials but we did end up with a few nicer models, some skate/ray teeth (i think), and cool pieces of bone. oh i also found what i thought might be a mammal tooth. its about 3 inches long, slightly curved, and looks like a smaller version of some sort of whale or dolphin tooth. i accidentally broke it and the inside was black. does anyone know if mammal teeth that size have been found in the area? i'll try to post pics of it later as i'm having trouble loading the files which are apparently too large (any help would be appreciated)

Here are just a few of my finds over the last month in Sherman,Tx. My son and I have really enjoyed getting dirty. We have found tons but these are some of our best. Not bad for beginners?

I went to Venice beach expecting to only find Fossil sharks teeth(which seems kinda silly now) but when I got there I found an array of other fossils like petrified wood, sting ray barbs and teeth, turtle shell pieces, etc. It's not very crowded on the week days and there's tons of wildlife too, so I'd certainly recommend taking a trip there

These a a few shots of our trip and the haul we had with fred mazza on the peace river on april 21 2013, we has a fantasic time and i would reccommed fred to anyone looking for a guided tour, pitcured are fred my self my bestie Dot And 2 others Shaun and his daughter..Shaun is an awesome dad not many fathers would do this for their daughters or anyone else for that matter, shes a spitfireand has one heck of a collection and was head picker on this trip, they have been with fred before and come back often...she even give fred a run for his money with finds.....

Hi Guys and Gals, I will be in florida in april and been hearing about the peace river, i would like to expreance this who would you suggest and what would i expect to find???? will be there from april 10 to may 1st any help would be a great help. Thanks for your time Diane

Hi All, Just getting back to fossiling after a 40 year break. Used to go collecting as a kid in upstate New York. Started collecting with my daughter and she's nuts about shharks teeth, obsessed about finding a Meg. We have gone collecting oin the Peace riiver in central Florida and looked in Western MD. Going out to Utah this August, any suggestions for Utah? Peter

Hi there, Me and my family are going to Cape Town on the 1st of April and plan to have about 10 days here. We all love fossils and have done a bit of hunting in England and found the odd Ammonites, I have seen that cape town has a lot of sharks, I just wanted to see if anyone knows of somewhere to find some sharks teeth on the beaches around cape town (we dont mind traveling a bit). Any tips of finding them is much appreciated. Thanks Mark