Rappahannock beach

[Rowboater]

Recent trips.  A couple of skate dermal scutes, rare for me, a nice cowhark bottom lateral (unfortunately not the "sharp-nosed" I'm looking for), puffer plate, and a heavy tiger shark tooth, plus a lot of mostly small sand tiger teeth.

 

[Fin Lover]

You are welcome to send me any cowshark teeth that are not the kind you are looking for.  Nice finds!

[Balance]

That’s a really clean mouth plate!

 

Cow shark made it to the list this year. I’m hoping for 1 in the next 10 seasons.  

 

Thanks for the post!

 

Jp

[Fossildude19]

Oooh! REALLY NICE cow shark tooth!

That tiger shark tooth is nothing to sneeze at either!

Great finds! Thanks for showing them - glad to see you still getting out there, this late in the season.

[Darktooth]

8 hours ago, Rowboater said:

 a nice cowhark bottom lateral (unfortunately not the "sharp-nosed" I'm looking for).

 

Said nobody, ever. 

Seriously though, nice haul!

[Andúril Flame of the West]

Congratulations on the nice finds and the spectacular cow shark tooth! Out of curiosity, do you know what formation these teeth originate from?

[Elmo]

Those are some great finds there!

[Rowboater]

@Elmo @Andúril Flame of the West @Darktooth @Fossildude19 @Fin Lover@Balance  Thanks everyone for stopping by.  Unfortunately almost all my teeth come off creek bottoms, usually mixed with small gravel, or I find laying on the beach. I don't know what formations are in Middlesex nor where.  I've been told they are all Miocene (with a rare outlier).  Since Covid, shark tooth hunting was an encouraged outdoor activity and I see lots of others out (hardly any children however).

 

As most of you know, I have been obsessed with a peculiar cowshark tooth.  In the past I found many of the 'standard' bottom laterals with serrations on the first point; I also used those distinctive serrations to ID isolated broken first points (more common than whole pretty teeth).  A few years ago I started revisiting an old, much frequented, site. Less teeth but I have found maybe a half dozen bottom laterals (I think) with no serrations on the first point, and with clear much smaller points in front of the first big point.  Since I had never seen any of these before I have become obsessed with the rare ones.  They may be common in Maryland but I think they point to a variant or maybe even a different species here, by their apparent separation from the "usual" cowshark teeth (also found at the same site. Also a higher proportion of cowshark teeth at the "new" spot).  The new ones seem to be more weathered and are frustratingly rare (and of course I have not found any symphyseal teeth from the new type, and probably would not recognize differences in the few screwy top cowshark teeth I find).

 

Was able to call up names with Edge but not with Chrome.

 

[Elmo]

1 hour ago, Rowboater said:

@Elmo @Andúril Flame of the West @Darktooth @Fossildude19 @Fin Lover@Balance  Thanks everyone for stopping by.  Unfortunately almost all my teeth come off creek bottoms, usually mixed with small gravel, or I find laying on the beach. I don't know what formations are in Middlesex nor where.  I've been told they are all Miocene (with a rare outlier).  Since Covid, shark tooth hunting was an encouraged outdoor activity and I see lots of others out (hardly any children however).

 

As most of you know, I have been obsessed with a peculiar cowshark tooth.  In the past I found many of the 'standard' bottom laterals with serrations on the first point; I also used those distinctive serrations to ID isolated broken first points (more common than whole pretty teeth).  A few years ago I started revisiting an old, much frequented, site. Less teeth but I have found maybe a half dozen bottom laterals (I think) with no serrations on the first point, and with clear much smaller points in front of the first big point.  Since I had never seen any of these before I have become obsessed with the rare ones.  They may be common in Maryland but I think they point to a variant or maybe even a different species here, by their apparent separation from the "usual" cowshark teeth (also found at the same site. Also a higher proportion of cowshark teeth at the "new" spot).  The new ones seem to be more weathered and are frustratingly rare (and of course I have not found any symphyseal teeth from the new type, and probably would not recognize differences in the few screwy top cowshark teeth I find).

 

Was able to call up names with Edge but not with Chrome.

 

My hunting is a lot like yours. I hunt the Patomic River and find most of my stuff there sifting and just seeing it lay on the shore line in gravel. Calvert Cliffs state park is pretty much the same exact routine , but it’s located on the Chesapeake bay and generally gives me finds that are a little bigger. Flag Ponds is where I don’t do any sifting and just wade the waters and check the beach for stuff laying around and that’s where I find the biggest fossils. Flag Ponds and Calvert are just a few miles from each other and are the same formation, but for some reason Flag Ponds always does better than Calvert for me. 
Now with all that being said, I’ve only found 1 cow shark tooth in the 2 1/2 years that I been hunting. They seem to be pretty rare here too, but I’m still not giving up on getting some in the collection. 
 

[sixgill pete]

Great little Notorhynchus. I do love my cowsharks!