Oldies but Goodies

Ok, like some of you, I have finds from '09 that I never got around to posting.  As I go collecting each week, when I come home with the goods, I rinse them off and sort out the better specimens and let them dry on a paper plate.  After a wile I have several of these paper plates stacked on top of each other or piled around on my desk/table.  I love going collecting, but I hate having to put stuff away, something my wife can attest to.  Anyhow, I usually take a pic or two for posterity, so here's two of those pics.  The fossils in these pics are from Calvert Cliffs, and represent a lot of hours of digging and sifting.  If you notice the variety of specimens you'll see that much of what we find along the cliffs is similar to that of Lee Creek.  In my pics you'll see a Meg, cowsharks, mako's, hammerheads, sandtigers, tigers (aduncus, contortus), carcharhinus, thresher, lemon, hemi's, porpoise teeth, fish and shark verts, fish teeth (3 Barracuda teeth in one pic), stingray teeth & barbs, and even a scallop shell to show I'm not totally against shell collecting (who am I kidding, shells are for girls- hee hee) - just kidding, seriously, just kidding, don't send me nasty emails now :).  What we lack up here is the volume of those rare species at Lee Creek; Parotodus, Hexanchus, Bramble, Megamouth, just to name a few.

I uploaded 2 versions of each pic; one original size (~3 MB), and one smaller scaed down size ~300KB.  This should allow those that want to zoom in to see the finer details of some specimens to click on the image or use the scroll bars in the window to move around to see a close-up up each specimen.  I know I like to do this for some of the specimens you guys post.

Daryl.