moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Hi there what started as a quest to see if i could screen for sharks teeth on a site in northern NZ ended failing. yes i did find teeth but they were not common enough to screen for. the weather was snarge but the tides were right on the first day I went for a walk to a shark tooth producing site and found a few I went back there on other time and was on my hands and knees in the mud and pulled more out here was the total from one site the ground looked like this here are some insitu shots Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 here are some more shots of the teeth and the first site (im not showing any of the scenery as my friend showed me this site and no one else knows about it) Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 here are some from the second time at that first site Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 found another site by boat but too late as the tide was coming in nice tooth insitu all teeth from this site vert of some kind whale bone also these shells were in all the tooth sites I like them they are wentletraps another tooth site produced these Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 we also visted a well known jurassic road cutting as a day trip It was too wet to take photos of the concretions but here are my fossils inoceramus and belemnites and other shells fossil lobster parts from wee concretions Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 Finally for all those interested in crabs i found a site with just a few crabs. they were small in concretion and were eroding. I have no idea what age because there are so many sand stone mudstones in the area. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 ooh and some sea urchin spines and bird bone + one sea urchin spine from the tooth sites we then went on 4 km walk to find a supposed bed of fossils I saw this and it was the most exciting of the day it was a great walk tho Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CH4ShotCaller Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Awesome finds, pictures and narration! The crabs are my favorite! Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Excellent pile of crabs. And what is that last thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 Excellent pile of crabs. And what is that last thing? its a heart urchin, I had a look at the photo I cant really see it looking like that it did when i saw it lol Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Nice finds, I like how the crabs are preserved its different from what I have seen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Nice finds, I like how the crabs are preserved its different from what I have seen before. I agree. I wondered if they weren't that old, but the rock is really hard and it looks like the rock they eroded from has completely gone only leaving the fossils in a massive mudbank. there are quite a few there. and some have of the concretions have totally eroded as have the shells over a long period of time. they are not listed in any fossil book or any geology book, but why would they be they are on a mud bank about 30metres from the nearest cliffs the cliffs are not accessible as the mud is too deep to get to them. these mudbanks were accessed by boat from the outside we still got muddy bit less muddy than we would have!! they are visible because the pacific oysters have made their colonies on the piles of concretions and stopped the mud build up on them. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Nice variety. The crabs are amazing. I'd expect one's luck to run out after finding just one. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carcharodontosaurus Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 So this is a place in New Zealand where you can pick up shark's teeth without having to extract them from rocks? How common are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 So this is a place in New Zealand where you can pick up shark's teeth without having to extract them from rocks? How common are they? they are not common but they are not hunted alot only me and my mate know where they are. and you have to walk through alot of mud and go by boat. i dont think there is a source of them still there i think they are in the gravels from a previous outcrop of rock that was there . I was surprised about how many I got and the size i thought they would all be small. i believe there are a few more sites around like it but mostly small teeth. chatham islands has the most accessible teeth but they are mostly the size of the ones we found at mikonui. although there are the odd big ones. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundancer73 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 <---- jealous Logan. Things here are just beginning to clear up and flooding is going down.... can't wait to get back in the water. All your fossils are belong to us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakoMeCrazy Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Looks like it was a great trip! Nice finds! Love the eroding crabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everhardus Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Amazing crabs, i agree.....I have family down there...maybe once, who knows...Gr,marcel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 awesome hunting logan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I love the crabs.Congrats on the nice finds.I think that vert is shark.Take care,Jeff Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down under fossil hunter Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Well done on your finds, it looks like you had a great time. Those in situ photos are cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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