Afrikaner Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 The weather was very nice on the weekend but milnerton beach was again covered in deep sand and only few spots of gravel where I managed to find some shark teeth and some other stuff . The big tooth is maybe buffalo and the vert?? Better a bad Day at the Beach than a good Day at the Office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jax Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoRon Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Possibly a whale cervical vert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilForKids Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I believe the tooth is Bison and the vert appears to be a dolphin or porpoise vert If only my teeth are so prized a million years from now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 agree with bison and cetacean cervical, but vert looks too large to be from a dolphin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikaner Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 Thanks Guy's I found something on the internet,the vert could be from a whale. The Tooth is Buffalo,there are no Bisons in South Africa Keep well Werner Better a bad Day at the Beach than a good Day at the Office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smilodon Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I've been in the fossil business for a while and have never heard of fossil shark teeth from the Capetown area. What information is there that they are really fossil teeth. I grant you they are certainly look like it, but that doesn't really mean anything. Given the modern great white populations there I just wonder. Are they miocene, pliocene, pleistocene? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikaner Posted August 11, 2009 Author Share Posted August 11, 2009 I've been in the fossil business for a while and have never heard of fossil shark teeth from the Capetown area. What information is there that they are really fossil teeth. I grant you they are certainly look like it, but that doesn't really mean anything. Given the modern great white populations there I just wonder.Are they miocene, pliocene, pleistocene? Thanks. Like all the other Fossils I found sofar on the Beaches in Cape Town the shark teeth washed on shore come from a phosphat reef that runs offshore from Cape Town towards Namibia,I would say miocene-pliocene. They are Fossils for sure Better a bad Day at the Beach than a good Day at the Office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smilodon Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Yes, I know that you mentioned megs - so they have to be fossils, I'm just stunned about fossil teeth from Cape Town. And here I was trying to get my daughter NOT to spend next semester there. Sending you a pm soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikaner Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share Posted August 12, 2009 Yes, I know that you mentioned megs - so they have to be fossils, I'm just stunned about fossil teeth from Cape Town. And here I was trying to get my daughter NOT to spend next semester there. Sending you a pm soon. Is your daughter in Cape Town? Let me know and I take her Shark Teeth hunting. Regards Werner Better a bad Day at the Beach than a good Day at the Office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smilodon Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Is your daughter in Cape Town?Let me know and I take her Shark Teeth hunting. Regards Werner No, she wanted to spend the first 1/2 of 2010 there, but has decided not to do that now. I would certainly have visited her AND YOU there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikaner Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 No, she wanted to spend the first 1/2 of 2010 there, but has decided not to do that now. I would certainly have visited her AND YOU there. You can still come I go hunting with you aswell Better a bad Day at the Beach than a good Day at the Office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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