Danielb Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Nice finds as always. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 (edited) I just noticed something pretty amazing... Found this one on 2/10.. And this one on 2/24.. They actually seem to fit together 😁 Edited February 25 by dries85 Typo 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 14 minutes ago, dries85 said: I just noticed something pretty amazing... Found this one on 2/10.. And this one on 2/24.. They actually seem to fit together 😁 That certainly is pretty amazing. That once happened to me with 2 halves of an ammonite, one found in the autumn and the other the next spring. 2 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Talk about needle in a hay stack! wow… Jp 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automech Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Beautiful! Killer luck! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 Went out hunting the river shores in the sun on tuesday 2/27, great weather but finds came along slowly.. Started out great tho with these.. C. hastalis with 'biting damage' 😉 Raja sp. stingray spine Some great additions to my collection of 'ugly worn teeth'.. Then i started turning rocks by hand, finding some nicer smaller hastalis teeth and this horse tooth.. On my way back a not so bad but extremely softly polished Isurus retroflexus, my favorite tooth of the day just because it's so smooth.. And another broken hastalis.. Here's the whole lot cleaned up.. Not my luckiest day, but not bad either. I had some time left to hit up another spot and found another worn hastalis in the sand. Crossed a fellow hunter showing a nice pristine hastalis, but he was actually more pleased with the richness of Neogene bivalves and gastropods on this particular beach. So i picked up some shells too 😄 there's just too many to keep track, so i rather stick with teeth. Here's what i picked up tho.. Defenitely had a fun day being out, looking forward to the next! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 Also found this big piece of fossil bone i think i might put up for ID. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 That shell on the chunk of reef is a real beauty ! love the finds. Jp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 2 Author Share Posted March 2 9 hours ago, Balance said: That shell on the chunk of reef is a real beauty ! love the finds. Jp Surely an interesting concretion apart from the Pecten on top.. Too bad i can't get much better detail with my smartphone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 On Sunday 3/3 i went out hunting with the WTKG (Tertiary and Quaternary Research Group) in a clay quarry in the Antwerp region. There were about 50 very enthousiastic club members ranging from 10yo to over 70. After a short moment with formalities everyone litterally rushed into the quarry and started digging and sifting away. In this quarry there's Oligocene clay (Boom clay, Rupelien) with on top a Pleistocene base gravel with reworked fossils from the Oligocene to Pleistocene. Some people we're surface hunting on the clay slopes for shells, but i chose to hit the gravel. With succes, after some nice smaller teeth in a first spot, i eventually got 2 pretty decent hastalis teeth and a beautiful Notorynchus in one sifter in a second spot. This would be my spot for the rest of the day with some great finds. Found half of a 7cm hastalis and a +7cm angustidens in really bad shape (nevertheless a great find 😄) before my digging hole caved in. Quickly searched in another spot, finding some nice small teeth and some partial Galeocerdo, which are quite uncommon in this locality. Had a great day hunting, and always nice to meet some fellow hunters and hear their stories. No in situ pics for today, cause the club doesn't want to spoil the location, here's my finds put together tho.. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Here's some close ups of my favorite finds.. Carcharias taurus Lamna nasus Notorynchus primigenius and Hexanchus griseus Galeocerdo aduncus Otodus angustidens Carcharodon hastalis 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPrice Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Wow! what a haul! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 2 hours ago, dries85 said: On Sunday 3/3 i went out hunting with the WTKG (Tertiary and Quaternary Research Group) in a clay quarry in the Antwerp region. There were about 50 very enthousiastic club members ranging from 10yo to over 70. After a short moment with formalities everyone litterally rushed into the quarry and started digging and sifting away. In this quarry there's Oligocene clay (Boom clay, Rupelien) with on top a Pleistocene base gravel with reworked fossils from the Oligocene to Pleistocene. Some people we're surface hunting on the clay slopes for shells, but i chose to hit the gravel. With succes, after some nice smaller teeth in a first spot, i eventually got 2 pretty decent hastalis teeth and a beautiful Notorynchus in one sifter in a second spot. This would be my spot for the rest of the day with some great finds. Found half of a 7cm hastalis and a +7cm angustidens in really bad shape (nevertheless a great find 😄) before my digging hole caved in. Quickly searched in another spot, finding some nice small teeth and some partial Galeocerdo, which are quite uncommon in this locality. Had a great day hunting, and always nice to meet some fellow hunters and hear their stories. No in situ pics for today, cause the club doesn't want to spoil the location, here's my finds put together tho.. I was out Sunday also, but I am running out of time to make these posts. Fantastic teeth you find, many different species than the ones I find in Florida.. My sieves are generally dominated by Bull, Dusky, Lemon, Hemipristis, and Tiger sharks... There is a reason, I'll have to think about it a little.. Maybe cooler versus warmer waters.. Thanks for sharing. Jack 2 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automech Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Nice cow sharks! And, that's got to be the ugliest Angy I've ever seen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 4 hours ago, automech said: Nice cow sharks! And, that's got to be the ugliest Angy I've ever seen. Agreed on both.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 17 hours ago, Shellseeker said: I was out Sunday also, but I am running out of time to make these posts. Fantastic teeth you find, many different species than the ones I find in Florida.. My sieves are generally dominated by Bull, Dusky, Lemon, Hemipristis, and Tiger sharks... There is a reason, I'll have to think about it a little.. Maybe cooler versus warmer waters.. Thanks for sharing. Jack Hey Thx Jack! So far i always seem to find some time to take some pics and make these posts, cause it's just more fun going through my finds and share them with like-minded people instead of keeping them stashed away in boxes for my eyes only.. However i always enjoy your posts, you have the habit of making very complete posts delving deeply into each find. I suppose that's not something you just do when you got some minutes left in between, looking forward to the next anyway 😉 About the different species, over here C. hastalis is by far the most common, followed by I. oxyrinchus and I. retroflexus isn't that rare either. I also tend to find a lot of sand tigers like C. taurus, C. gustrowensis and Araloselachus Vorax. For the lemon sharks it's mostly Carcharinus Priscus. Complete Cow sharks and Tiger sharks are considered nice finds, Hexanchus is by far more rare than Notorynchus. Hemipristis and GW are quite uncommon, as well as Megs, Angies and auriculatus in good condition. About the difference, at the Belgian North Sea coast there's currently only 3 types of sharks, catfish, dog shark and spotted shark. I guess Florida has a wealthier shark fauna these days... Enjoy thinking and thanks for thinking with me 😉 Dries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 25 minutes ago, dries85 said: Hey Thx Jack! So far i always seem to find some time to take some pics and make these posts, cause it's just more fun going through my finds and share them with like-minded people instead of keeping them stashed away in boxes for my eyes only.. However i always enjoy your posts, you have the habit of making very complete posts delving deeply into each find. I suppose that's not something you just do when you got some minutes left in between, looking forward to the next anyway 😉 About the different species, over here C. hastalis is by far the most common, followed by I. oxyrinchus and I. retroflexus isn't that rare either. I also tend to find a lot of sand tigers like C. taurus, C. gustrowensis and Araloselachus Vorax. For the lemon sharks it's mostly Carcharinus Priscus. Complete Cow sharks and Tiger sharks are considered nice finds, Hexanchus is by far more rare than Notorynchus. Hemipristis and GW are quite uncommon, as well as Megs, Angies and auriculatus in good condition. About the difference, at the Belgian North Sea coast there's currently only 3 types of sharks, catfish, dog shark and spotted shark. I guess Florida has a wealthier shark fauna these days... Enjoy thinking and thanks for thinking with me 😉 Dries There's a quite complete and very interesting website about all different shark species found in Belgium and neighbouring countries made by Pieter De Schutter based on his own finds. It's a great reference work for belgian shark teeth from Albian to Pliocene and defenitely worth a visit. www.somniosus.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 4 hours ago, dries85 said: There's a quite complete and very interesting website about all different shark species found in Belgium and neighbouring countries made by Pieter De Schutter based on his own finds. It's a great reference work for belgian shark teeth from Albian to Pliocene and defenitely worth a visit. www.somniosus.be Thanks !!! Well thought out response and I am planning to catch up on my posting tomorrow... The website is valuable.. Jack 1 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Went out hunting the river shores on Saturday, arrived at 8am at my favorite spot.. only to find someone else's fresh footprints in the muck already 😔 First time i notice someone visiting 'my' spot, bit of a painful moment honestly. (And it got even worse when i found out this person was so nice to post very clear pics of the locality and his finds in a belgian shark teeth group on facebook 😞). That been said, i didn't find too many shark teeth today.. My 'fellow' hunter didn't seem to have any interest in mammal teeth so it seemed, cause i've never found as many as today. Here's an overview of my finds... Not a bad start with some mammal and shark teeth.. presumed WW2 bullet. More mammal and some shark teeth.. And eventually my last find, a 5cm hastalis with a truly pristine root, made me feel like not everything was lost 😀 Felt like i could use some extra shark teeth so afterward i hit up the well known dredged piles of Mixed Neogene sands in the port of Antwerp. Met a sympathetic fellow hunter i knew from the trip with the club last week. He told me he'd been sent away by hunters (the type with guns, chasing wild animals) in the good spot, so we searched ourselves another promising spot and started sifting away.. Good finds came along slowly for both of us, some nice smaller teeth tho but loads of bits and pieces. Not finding anything spectacular kept me going untill sunset, better luck next time i suppose. Had a good time with this other guy, can't have it all i guess.. 😉 Here's my finds from the river shores.. And this is the result of an afternoon of sifting.. Actually not bad after all 😆 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balance Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Onward and upward. As for the fellow that posted your spot. Bad enough finding a whole next to yours but it’s a billion times the insult that he posted it. Sorry. no hunting here. I’m building a new boat and until it’s finished all the extra time is going to it. Almost done. Hoping for a long camping weekend to kick it off! Every time you post I think, I could push it a day and go hunt a walk in spot instead… no! Must finish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 7 minutes ago, Balance said: Onward and upward. As for the fellow that posted your spot. Bad enough finding a whole next to yours but it’s a billion times the insult that he posted it. Sorry. no hunting here. I’m building a new boat and until it’s finished all the extra time is going to it. Almost done. Hoping for a long camping weekend to kick it off! Every time you post I think, I could push it a day and go hunt a walk in spot instead… no! Must finish Well, i don't know if it's that bad actually. I mean i recognized the spot right away, but let's hope others don't. Luckily most people on facebook are lazy enough to just ask 'where's your honey hole' and then call you an 'egoīst' when you're not willing to share.. It's just, Antwerp isn't that big, less than 3000 km2 of which most build full. So i've seen many good spots gone to waste by posting them openly. Those places get crowded in no time, with people leaving their garbage, trespassing properties, leaving dangerous deep dig holes open to cave in... Kinda ruins the sport for those who try to play it by the rules.. And first things first i suppose 😉 eventually that boat is going to serve you well while hunting! I've currently got a contractor with 5 people working in my house, so the best place to be is.. not at home. As my other hobbies are playing the trompet (and i rather not annoy the working people) and gardening (pallets of bricks on my tulips 😱), so i've got myself an excuse for now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Took a day off work on wednesday 3/13 as it was my birthday. Got some time to hunt for fossils as a birthday gift from my girlfriend. Great gift really 😏 so i drove to the river shores to look for more presents.. Was already pleased by the fact there were no traces of other hunters to be found. Here's what i did find. Started of with a well hidden shark tooth. Followed up by a deer? tooth nicely Presented on a rock.. More not so bad shark teeth.. and another mammal tooth, sheep i think.. the biggest hastalis of the day missing some parts of the root.. A very blue bovine tooth. A nice oxyrinchus. Greenish hastalis. More mammal teeth... another I. oxyrinchus, large but washed A larger hastalis without root.. And a pretty nice Striatolamia macrota or Carcharias taurus, missing a cusp And here's the whole lot cleaned up.. Had some hours left afterward so i decided to hit up a new spot i'd never been before, but well known for it's shark teeth. Another Antwerpian wasteland with dredged up material, this time Pliocene with reworked Miocene shark teeth. It wasn't quite as i expected tho.. the spot wasn't as easily accessible as i hoped, so i started my hunt with looking into some rabbit holes. Lots of fossil shell material, but no shark teeth yet. I found this nice recent specimen tho, rabbit skull.. Eventually i reached this fossilicious wasteland. Lots of Pliocene Shell debris and the occasional shark tooth.. Great place for shellseekers.. Didn't have to much time left to do some proper sifting, but defenitely will pay this spot another visit in the future... Here's what i found.. Had a great birthday hunt, always cool to find a new spot. Grtz, Dries 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthemoose Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Looks like you missed this fossilized baby shark. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dries85 Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Just now, bthemoose said: Looks like you missed this fossilized baby shark. Yeah i actually set that one free so it could properly develop it's tail 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 9 hours ago, bthemoose said: Looks like you missed this fossilized baby shark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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