Fossil Friday

Today, since it's a Friday, I decided to show to my fossil collection. Let's start with shark teeth!

This is my biggest shark tooth- about 2.5 or 3 inches long. I won this in a lottery at a local gem/mineral/fossil show! I know for certain that it's not a Megaladon, but otherwise, I'm clueless. If you guys know what kind of tooth this is, please comment! :D

Next is my second biggest tooth. Now, based on other people's knowledge, I will hazard a guess that this is a Great White tooth. It's only 2 inches long, so it's too small to be a Megaladon's. I found it in Oak Island, NC. The waves were about 6 ft, and super rough that day.

And here are all my shark teeth. I'm rather bad at IDing my shark teeth, so I 'm not even gonna try. However, here's a fun fact for you guys. You notice that while most teeth are black or grey, several are yellowish. The color of fossilized shark teeth depends on the color of the earth that they were fossilized in. So the black teeth became fossilized in black soil.

Here is a Stingray Barb. I have a few of these.

And here are Stingray Dental Plates.

Two of my porpoise teeth.

And finally, some fossilized snail shells ( I couldn't resist- seashells are impossible to leave out of anything!)

 

Now you may wonder where I find my fossils? Most of them I find locally- at Flag Ponds Nature Park, I wrote about one of my trips there in this blog post. This is a state park on the Chesapeake Bay. Another park to visit if you're looking for fossils is Calvert Cliffs. We went there once but the hike was far too long for us ( me and my brothers were pretty young and got tired). Also, a small portion of my fossils I find on my lovely Oak Island, NC. This year is the thirteenth year that my family and I have vacationed ont he island and it's lovely!

 

Well that's it for today!

Yaroshelllava :D

Searching for Shark Teeth

For this one post, I'm going to take a break from my Sanibel Island Saga and tell you guys about how my family and some friends went searching for shark teeth yesterday.
We went to Flag Pond Nature Park on the Chesapeake Bay. The Park is just north of Calvert Cliffs and gets its fossils from the eroding cliffs.
The walk to the beach is just one half of a mile long and the beach is alright. But what we came in search of was SHARK TEETH!!!!!!!!!

 

So here's the beach.

 

 

I found a few Stingray Dental Plates.

 

And some fossilized seashells!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yes! There are seashells everywhere!) :D

And here are my smaller shark teeth! Some were so tiny!!!! Barely an eighth of an inch long. I found some of the smaller ones by using a sieve- you pile some sand and stuff into it than shake it in some water so that all the sand falls through and only stones and shells and fossils are left. Then you search through them until you find something, or you don't. And then you pick up another "sieveful" ( like "bucketful") and start over.

Here are my larger teeth, these were around 1/2 of an inch long.

 

And finally, drumroll please....... My largest shark tooth!!!! This guy was probably just about 3/4 of an inch wide and 3/4 of an inch long. I found him buried in the sand so that just the very top was visible.

 

And my last fossil is this fossilized Crab Claw. I really like these guys.

 

And this is all the fossils I found on my blanker!

See ya soon and have a great Memorial Day,

Lava of Ocean Dawn :D