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Hey everybody!

Just thought I's share some pics from yesterdays fossil hunt at Castle Rock and another location.

We found an Icthyodectid tail, a protosphyraena fin and the highlight of our trip- a very rare Scapanorhynchus shark tooth!

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-Kris

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Well done!

Thank you very much for the site pictures, too :)

"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!

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Are you certain on the Proto ID? I can't see the sawtoothed edge. Might be another big fish.

Ramo

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
-Aldo Leopold
 

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Are you certain on the Proto ID? I can't see the sawtoothed edge. Might be another big fish.

Ramo

If you look in the lower right side of the picture you can see it has weak serrations like a Protosphyraena tenuis.

Not all protosphyraena have saw toothed edges-Protosphyraena nitida for example have fine lines perpendicular to the leading edge.

Thanks

-Kris

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Really nice pictures of the landscape where you collect. So vastly different than my usual hunting locations with cliffs (se pic), and waves of water splashing all around.

Congrats on the shark tooth - sounds like a rare/unusual find for that area.

vr,

Daryl.

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