Ramminison Creek Another Shovel Full

[Taxman56]

Well I thought I give the Ram another try, still had that itch. The rain up there wasn't much and either it didn't wash the foot prints away or there was more pickers.

I hump my sifter up to my usual gravel bar looking for goodies along the way with no luck. This gravel bar is bigger than my living room and I sampled several spots trying to guess where the current would drop out the good stuff.

Nothing but a few broken teeth. Actually the next dozen gravel bars were a bust, broken teeth or a few tiny goblins.

As I noticed this branch covered in flood debris I wonder what that level of water does to a gravel bar. Maybe it was luck, but I hit the honey hole.

While not too proflic I was averaging one tooth for 3 shovels full of gravel. Nice teeth, big and unbroken. I spent the next 2 hours leveling that bar.

1/8 inch squares 1 inch square bold lines

Some nice Teeth with cuspets #1, #3, #4, #5 and #10

Some great Squalicorax including the a big one, #8 and 2 nice smaller ones #9

A nice big Goblin tooth # 11 but the root is broken and some smaller nice ones #2

Edited September 30, 2010 by Taxman56

[Taxman56]

Turtle or gator scute #12

I think this is a piece of turtle shell #7, has some nice lines on it, 1 inch x 3/4, 3/8 inch thick and tapers down to an edge

[Taxman56]

And a nice (well for me) lobster or ghost shrimp claws parts, but alas no pinchers. Some pieces of shell and few casts

[Just Bob]

Very nice,John. Me and Anthony Hit the Ram today. I found a real nice piece of bone there but I am still waiting for a ID.

[Fossildude19]

Great finds, Taxman!

Thanks for sharing with us!

Regards,

[Taxman56]

Cool probably a lot of rain up there this week. Got a picture yet?

PM on what section you guys hit

[Darwin Ahoy]

Looks like just about all of us got up there today. Looks like you did pretty well, too. Bob and I also found a lot of Squalicorax, too. I came away with a wicked pathological one, too.

[Taxman56]

So thats who's been taking all the squalicorax. I usually find one or two at the most. But a big one is a nice find

[Darwin Ahoy]

I find lots of S. kaupi downstream. I don't know why pristidontis is labeled as common everywhere, but I have the hardest time finding them. I have maybe 5 good ones, but dozens of kaupi. I have more borodini than good pristidontis at this point. Unless my ID's are just way off. But between the two of us, Bob and I probably found half as many pristidontis today as I have ever.

[Taxman56]

I always have a hard time identifying teeth. I probably should of spent less time in accounting classes and more time in the Geology lab. Now that I think of it, I wonder why my old college geo professor never took on us on a field trip to Big Brook

[Just Bob]

I think I found more squali's today then any other trip I have been on. Plus I found a ton of badly broken ones I didn't keep.

[Taxman56]

And you were just picking, thats a good haul

[fossilsofnj]

# 2 is a turtle peripheral.

As a general rule on the Squali’s S. kaupi is the more common of the two species, but this can change depending on location

[erose]

My first fossil from Big Brook was a large and perfect S. pristodontus. From that point on they never eluded me. That turtle bone is very nice.

[jpc]

# 2 is a turtle peripheral.

As a general rule on the Squali’s S. kaupi is the more common of the two species, but this can change depending on location

Correction... #7 is a turtle perpheral... i.e. edge of the shell. And 12 is either a soft shelled turtle or croc scute piece. Hard to tell a sit is a bit worn.

Nice finds.