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Hi all, we found what we believe to be a fossilized baleen whale jaw, while out on an artifact hunt on the Nansemond river, in Carrollton, Va. If anyone has an information for us about what exactly we have found, it would be much appreciated. Very interested in which position of the mouth this would have been, lower, upper? Also, any insight on why we might have found it where we did? It did erode out of a cliff but it we don’t find any other fossils in this formation. Thanks for the help
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Greens Mill Run finds, including baleen whale fossils
fossil_lover_2277 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Made a recent trip to Greens Mill Run and got quite a few nice fossils, particularly fossil bone. Large fragment of a Pliocene baleen whale lower jaw bone, whale rib fragment, baleen whale tympanic bullas, unfused whale vertebral epiphysis, Chesapectens jeffersonius, other Chesapectens spp., clams, etc. All collected in-situ, all from the Yorktown formation. Also quite a few sharks teeth collected from gravel bars. Also one pic, the one with the belemnites lined across the top, is all in-situ Cretaceous stuff. Great trip, digging the stuff up was a nice change from all the gravel sifting haha- 2 replies
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I’ve been putting it off to long; I need to get prepping! And as practice I’ve started with what looks like the easiest piece, a whale jaw bit in a concretion I found. I need to dig it out and reattach it to the rest which was found already dislodged from it. I’ve been using a manual scribe and dang this stuff is hard! Most of the cliff sediment is loose but this concretion stuff is not easy to scratch up! Soaked it in vinegar over night, and it is slightly easier. I’ve put in a little less than two hours I think, and it’s progressing but not at a pace I like, so I used a gift card I forgot I had and bought myself a electric scribe, hoping it will help Once I got that finished, I am gonna try a larger whale bone in a huge (for me) concretion, which is gonna require consolidation. that’s gonna be a tough. I got a long list of other things I need to prep out and consolidate, crash course time! Here’s my progress thus far