- Sharktooth Island: Tips and finds from my four years in Wilmington, NC . . .
Stumbled on this site and remembered I had an account that I haven't used for a while Five years later, I thought I'd post an update Shark Tooth Island is located in Wilmington, NC, just off the shore from River Road Park If you're standing at the boat ramp facing the river, the island directl
- Michigan Shark Teeth - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum
I don't know Michigan was high and dry from the Mesozoic and later, the ages for these types of teeth (except for the great lakes which are fresh water) These look like shark teeth that are found in coastal areas,Tx, La, Fla, the Carolinas and California
- Shark Vert Vs Fish Vert - Questions Answers - The Fossil Forum
Shark vertebrae tend to be preserved as just the centrum (the hockey puck-like disk) with two openings on top and two on the bottom where the hemal and neural arches were attached The arches were cartilaginous in life and disintegrate quickly after death The centrum sometimes survives as a fossil because it is at least partially ossified Because they aren't solid bone, they are fragile
- Creeks rivers ECT near or in indiana to find shark teeth?
Indiana's exposed strata is much older than the shark teeth found by Blackriverfossils Any shark teeth you may find would be from the Paleozoic, rather than the Mesozoic or Cenozoic And those don't look much like typical shark teeth PALEOZOIC SHARK TEETH You would have to travel to the East Coast of America, or Florida, or Texas, or California, to be able to find shark teeth like they find
- Aurora NC finds - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum
My wife and I made our way down to North Carolina for the Aurora Fossil Museum's Fossil Festival last weekend Overall it was a pretty productive trip and we came away with well over 1000 shark teeth, some nice shells, lots of ray teeth, some shark, fish and cetacean verts, small cetacean teeth a
- NJ Miocene Eocene find - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum
15 mm long It reminds me of a fish tooth, even though it was found at the shark river formation (not shark river park but the same formation in southern NJ) it has no lateral faces and the base looks like it would socket into a jaw (like a fish) rather than have a shark root thanks for tips
- First Beach Trip of the Summer - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum
On Saturday me and my family went out to Micklers beach, which is well known for shark teeth, for our first beach trip this summer We've been quite a few times, so I wasn't expecting very much, just a handfull of teeth, maybe one or two nice Sand Tigers, but around five minutes into the search I
- What was a bourlettes purpose? - The Fossil Forum
I know the bourlette on a shark tooth is the chevron shaped material between the enamel and the root, but what was it actually? Clearly it is not root or enamel, but did it serve a specific purpose?
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