Get Low, Go Slow. The Reclaimation is Advancing

The reclaimation is advancing on the southern end of the pit/collecting area. With that knowledge the decision was made to enter that side before it's too late. There is plenty of good Pungo material in that side of the pit and I've been dreaming about finding a nice chubutensis or big hemipristis. We picked a direction and headed off. The mantra for the day was get low, go slow. I have a niece and two nephews so any tooth I find goes home with me and ultimately into their hands. I was finding the usual contortus, cuvier, and small hemis. My chubutensis was eluding me. I didn't feel like digging so I kept moving. At 1:30pm we decided to try one last spot and just walk into an area we had never been in. My better half was taking a break and I was crawling through some weeds beside a dozer track and realized the mine was playing tricks on me. I would see enamel and serrations, but when I gently removed the tooth from the ground every one was broken. I was going to call this post, "the day that could have been". Just before 2pm my GF found a nice mako I had missed so I doubled my efforts. I couldn't let that happen again! I saw a root sticking out of the ground and moved the rock that was hiding it and carefully excavated a dinged up small chub. Once again what could've been. I moved closer to the dozer track and almost fell over... in front of me sitting labial side up (on a small pedestal) was a pristine chubutensis. I began to feel better about missing the mako. I had found one of what I was looking for. The rain will help this weekends collectors.