Spr Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 All found along the beaches anywhere between Onslow Beach and Holden Beach, North Carolina. If you would like more pictures of anything please let me know, thanks. The shark tooth is strange to me because I thought it was a fragment but the serrations on both edges make it seem otherwise like a newly grown tooth? I have plenty of shark teeth and no problem identifying them but this one stumps me. As far as number three goes, I thought it was a piece of turtle shell but my geology professor thought it may be a very worn tooth, however he wasn’t sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
val horn Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 The shark tooth looks like a crow shark, 3 and 5 look like turtle. 6 appears to be iron stone, not a fossil. The bone pieces wold be helped with multi sided photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 1 hour ago, val horn said: The shark tooth looks like a crow shark, 3 and 5 look like turtle. 6 appears to be iron stone, not a fossil. The bone pieces wold be helped with multi sided photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPayton Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 The "worn tooth" looks like a piece of softshell turtle plastron to me; it has that dimpled pattern that is diagnostic to them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Shaneyadav Posted March 26, 2022 New Members Share Posted March 26, 2022 The worn tooth in my opinion doesn’t look like turtle to me. It looks like a mammoth tooth just worn down over time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 #1 looks like a heavily worn mammal vertebra #3 softshell turtle $4 is a vertebra, maybe from a ray (it's a bit dark) #5 turtle, but the texture doesn't look like the Trionychid soft shell turtles #6 just a rock 1 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Can you get a closer picture of 2? To me it looks like a posterior megalodon tooth. “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr Posted March 26, 2022 Author Share Posted March 26, 2022 2 hours ago, Top Trilo said: Can you get a closer picture of 2? To me it looks like a posterior megalodon tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Thanks for the extra shots, I still agree with posterior meg tooth. 1 “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Team Squalicorax for the shark tooth (likely S. pristodontus). Cretaceous fossils can be found nearby. NC locals may say for sure whether Cretaceous fossil can be found at the beach. Meg posteriors are usually fat - especially the root. Note that Squalicorax has an exaggerated semi-circular mesial edge near the base of the crown: ^Becker & Chamberlain (2012) Here are a couple of topics with nice examples of posterior megs: 2 “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” - A. Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I agree the tooth is Squalicorax. The vert (#4) appears to be ray. Do you know which beach these were found on? Different beaches have different aged fossils. 1 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 I see what you are saying @ThePhysicist, Squalicorax, does match the shape pretty well, you and @sixgill pete know way more about shark teeth than I so @Spr listen to them. “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 2 hours ago, sixgill pete said: I agree the tooth is Squalicorax. The vert (#4) appears to be ray. Do you know which beach these were found on? Different beaches have different aged fossils. Yeah so, #’s 1,2,5,7 came from Holden Beach I would guess from the dredging taking place currently as I found them all within a couple hundred meters of the active worksite of that makes any difference. #’s 3,6,8 were from Onslow Beach and number 4 was the south end of Kure Beach at the edge of Fort Fishers starting point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 3 hours ago, ThePhysicist said: Team Squalicorax for the shark tooth (likely S. pristodontus). Cretaceous fossils can be found nearby. NC locals may say for sure whether Cretaceous fossil can be found at the beach. Meg posteriors are usually fat - especially the root. Note that Squalicorax has an exaggerated semi-circular mesial edge near the base of the crown: ^Becker & Chamberlain (2012) Here are a couple of topics with nice examples of posterior megs: Thanks for such a detailed description! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Top Trilo said: I see what you are saying @ThePhysicist, Squalicorax, does match the shape pretty well, you and @sixgill pete know way more about shark teeth than I so @Spr listen to them. Haha, anyone on this forum knows much more than me so I’m thankful for any information : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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