zachj Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 I woke up around 7:30 excited to go to a new fossil hunting ground. My friend will joined me and we left the house around 8. We drove on the road for about 2 hours and 15 minutes. When we arrived i had no idea what the heck i was doing. We wondered and search piles of nothing for about 40 minutes, Then we went back to our original spot and met mikeDOTB by complete incindent. He told me what i needed to do and showed me the ropes. I was glad i met him because without him i would not have found 1 tooth. After he showed us we searched the lots for teeth and other fossils. Mom was racking up in the lot beside us so we went there. Mike found a really nice galeocerdo aduncus and sand tiger. I found fish teeh, barrucuda teeth, and then i scored a nice hemipristis curvatus. Then i went to a place where they already built the apartments but had the riverbend dirt fully exposed. i figured the rain that fell on the roof splashed violently on the dirt under it and i seached there. It sure payed off when i pulled out a flawless purple alpois ladens theresher shark tooth, and directly beside it was a nice sand tiger! After awhile we left we saw an empty lot and hunted there. immendly after i left the car i found an angel shark tooth! then a minute later another hemi! we racked up in the lot scoring about 20 teeth each. After we left we went to a killer resturaunt called Aronalds. Then we left and arrived home and looked at our finds! one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachj Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 more pics one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachj Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 last pics one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S233 Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Looks like you had an awesome trip Zach! Good job. : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Great report! You collected some really good teeth, too; the Angel Shark tooth is particularly nice! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 (edited) So you ate at Arnold's Huh? Awesome place, my wife and I eat there often. You were only about 20 minutes from my house. Looks like you found some nice stuff. The Alopias is a very nice tooth and I too love that Squatina subserrata (Angel Shark). There must also be a Miocene layer present at the quarry this material is coming out of. Edited September 10, 2012 by sixgill pete 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...
zachj Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 it was so cool to be in richlands, i really wanted to see onslow quarry. Arnolds was great! had spaghetti, and cream corn. then i had a choclate sunday! one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S233 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Awww...... your making me hungry, stop it! : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachj Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 lol it was a cool place, kinda akward walking in dirty fossiling clothes while everyone else was in their best sunday clothes for church one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 it was so cool to be in richlands, i really wanted to see onslow quarry. Arnolds was great! had spaghetti, and cream corn. then i had a choclate sunday! a chocolate sunday does sound very good ...... 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...
Taffie Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Congrats, zachj! Finding a new hunting site is thrilling. Great finds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 glad you had a great hunt...just making sure you realize your mom racked up mega style points by going with you... treat her well next mother's day. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Nice finds Zach. Your title states "Late Eocene River Bend Formation" actually the River Bend Formation is strictly Oligocene. If these piles came from Onslow Quarry (aka Richlands Quarry) then the material is Castle Hayne Formation (Eocene) but if you collected other sites in Onlow County it might be Oligocene material. The fish teeth you found are similar to ones I find in Oligocene material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Al Dente, I believe the material is coming from a mine on Hwy 17 north of J-ville 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...
zachj Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 i was talking to mike dotb when i was there he said it was the latest eocene and early obligicene. one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachj Posted September 14, 2012 Author Share Posted September 14, 2012 Congrats, zachj! Finding a new hunting site is thrilling. Great finds. props go out to form member multicusp for tell me! one day i will find a tooth over 3 inches in good conditon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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