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

So I'm Back Again

                                                              Hi guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



             I must say that I am extremely sorry for not writing for such a long time- but I do have several excuses; firstly my summer was extremely busy, and then school started.

             So I started this summer by working at the Invertebrates Exhibit at the National Zoo ( unfortunately is was closed due to budget shortages :( ) and going to sewing camp. Then, I flew to Russia, for a month, then I  came back and went to Oak Island, NC for a week.

              I shelled a lot. The shells were definitely not as great as on Sanibel, but they were still there. By the way, I'm really sorry, but I don't think that I will finished chronicling my Sanibel Saga of 2014 for you guys. It was about six months ago and I remember it poorly. Plus, I have barely any time now- what with horse back riding, soccer, theatre, tutoring, school and COLLEGE APPS ( yes, I'm a senior now!!!!!).

               But, to make you feel better- I'll post some pictures form North Carolina right now.

 

Here's a Whelk Egg Casing- I think it was the first time that I found egg casings on Oak Island.

 

Water under the pier. There are two fishing piers on Oak Island.

 

Some shells- Northern Quahog, Scallops, Whelk Egg Casing and Unknown Shell on my finger tip.

 

There's a perfectly lovely marsh on the island- with a walk way and several trails.

 

 

The dunes....

 

Here's some cybershelling!!!!!!!

 

 

And some more cybershelling!!!!!!!!

 

Some of the shells that I collected- lots of Lettered Olives, Augers, Marginellas and Shark Eyes.

 

My tiny Wentletrap, the only one I found this year on Oak Island.

 

An interesting, light pink Scallop. Not sure specifically what kind.

 

You can see the beautiful rainbow in the background. This year, it was rainy for about half of the week that we were on the island. However, when it did stop raining, it was beautiful out.

 

Other shells that I collected- see all those Marginellas (!!??), Lettered Olives, Shark Eyes, Augers, Worm Shells and Oyster Drills.

 

 

I found some fossils too- two Shark Teeth, a Crab Claw and a Puffer Fish Mouth Plate.

 

And when it stopped raining, this is how beautiful the sky and beach were!!!!!!!!

 

 

And once again, I really gotta go. I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

 

Bye,

Yaroshelllava :D