While in the search for things you will sometimes step onto something completely unexpected. The place I visited is in Charles County a few miles inland from the river. I'll admit I dont know the 1st thing about Aqui formations or even if I spelled it right. I could tell that there was Turitella present. If that's not the species then It would be something larger then the Miocene I'm use to. Some of them as large as 8-10 inches long. 6 inches was common. The "oyster shells" or...

Good weekend. I went out both days. Some nice stuff on Saturday but the megs didn't come until Sunday. Saw tom today. He had a real good day too....but I'm not going to spoil the fun for him. Seriously bob and tom it was nice seeing you guys today. Sometimes I forget that I'm not the only crazy one out there.

So yea 2 nice megs today (1.75, 1-9/16). 2 nice makos (1.5, 1-9/16). 4 nice hemi's. and some other bull. Anyway the pits still p...

Two large lowers. The largest is 2-3/4".

Summer seems to speed by until you hear that your fossil hunt date at the PCS Phosphate Mine has been announced. Well the weekend arrived for the hunt and I joined T$ and Ditchweezil for a more economically sensible trip.

I visited my brother in Baltimore this past weekend with plans of doing a “dig” with him and the infamous Daryl on Sa...

I arrived at the Aurora Fossil Museum last Wednesday to find that the weather was starting to take a turn for the worse.  The forecast was for 40% chance for rain with very windy conditions from a tropical low system that was sitting off the coast.   The clouds were looking ugly and the winds were picking up.  I quickly toured the museum, got a Lincoln’s worth of tickets for the 2009 Memorial Day Fossil Festival’s “MEG” tooth raffle and then ...

Wish i had a ground shot of this one.  Only the small white spot that you see on the back of the tooth is all i saw.

This Pathologic Chubutensis Shark Tooth was about the last thing I found. I was dragging back to the bus at the end of a stifling day. I spied a root poking out of the ground and it looked exactly like a modern tiger shark tooth. I tapped it with the tip of my boot to make sure before I made all the effort to bend over and pick it up. When I first saw it, I thought it was broken and missing a cusp, but the strange angle of the thi...

A beautiful Yorktown Cow Shark tooth I found during my most recent trip to the Lee Creek mine in Aurora North Carolina.

I found this Aurora Cow Shark tooth in the footprints of another collector. Surely they would have picked up this tooth had they seen it. They must have been looking for a big megalodon sitting out in the open and just missed it. Anytime people ask my advice how to find the big shark teeth in Aurora, I always tell them to look for the little ones. Its easy to see a big tooth sitting out in the open, but how often do you see that anymore? Almo...

I found this monstrous Lee Cree Hemipristis shark tooth about 5 feet from the megalodon tooth I found on the same trip. I almost missed this tooth in my excitement of finding the megalodon tooth. You can see in the ground shot where I kicked some dirt onto it while descending the hill to get the megalodon.

I found this Mako tooth just around the corner from the Parotodus benedeni tooth. I was still reeling from that find, and since I had my camera handy I got a pretty good ground photo. Can you spot it in the wall of Yorktown?

Its Fall, and I've been anticipating the Lee Creek fossil hunt since I stepped out of the pit last season. There was a sub tropical storm the day before the big hunt that really got me worried. Too much rain in Aurora is bad because if it washes out the ramp, collecting is cancelled. T$, da f0ssZ, and myself made the trek without knowing for sure whether we would be allowed access to the pit, but the prospect of collecting after that much rainfall was too good to pass up. Despite severa...

I headed down to the Potomac this Sunday, again in hopes of scoring a Paleocarcharodon tooth.  I got there about 8 AM, about 4 hours before low tide, and had the place to myself.  I started the hunt by heading south along the river.

  I did pretty well on the south side.  The recent rains cleared a lot of the sand away, exposing the fossil-bearing gravels.  Otodus teeth were abundant, although most we...

     This is my first post to the site.  I am fairly new to fossil hunting.  I have always been interested, but have not done any.  Lots of interestsand hobbies to spend time on...

I hit the Potomac this past weekend, one week after the remnants of tropical storm Hannah.  I was hoping for a low tide with lots of gravel exposed...what I got was moderately high water and enough sand to replenish the sand depleted beaches of Ocean City.  I sifted here and there and found a few sand tigers, but it was too much effort for too little return.  I scanned the banks and found two little teeth (ref pics - I'm pointing to them in the one ...

I was cleaning out my My Documents folder today and I came across a neat photo that I never shared. Remember last year when I had the contest to design a t-shirt? I tried myself before the contest to come up with a design but I never succeeded. One of my ideas was to arrange teeth from every shark species I had from South Carolina en masse on a piece of posterboard. A couple of t-shirt designers took a look at the photo and said there was no way it would turn out becau...

Well, the short of it is Hannah didn't do what most of us cliff junkies were hoping for, and that is, create new falls (cliff collapses with large piles of fresh fossil dirt).  At best all hannah did was stir up the beach a little.  I payed very close attention to the storm track.  I actually drove down to the beach Sat morning, just as the storm was hitting the Carolinas.  I had about 3 or 4 hours before the rains and winds would come, so ...

This angustidens tooth was really the icing on the cake for my post tropical storm Hanna fossil hunts. It was an afterthought to hit this spot, but I'm glad we did. I found this gem with just its tip sticking out of the Ashley Formation barely above the water line of the ditch. I dug it out while wearing my new lucky Moes hat. What a time to be alive!

Tropical Storm Hanna was bearing down on South Carolina as I sat with my family at Taco Bell in awe of how hard it was raining. We couldn't see my wife's car parked just across the sidewalk. The streets were flooding everywhere. Then the band of showers passed and the sun peeked through the swiftly moving, low clouds. And the rain had been falling off and on like that all day long!  The weezling and I drooled in anticipation of finding large serrated objects in the morning afte...

I haven't been to Lafarge since last October. I got 5 buckets of green cap formation then and the stuff has been sitting in my back yard in a mega sifter beneath the rain gutters on my house. Every time it rains I go out and look for little treasures. I finally found one! Its a little SC Eocene Nurse Shark Tooth - the first I've ever found at the Lafarge quarry. It's not complete, but this species is exceedingly rare around here...

James city county day trip.

Today I had off and was looking forward to hitting the beach. I 've been having some car problems latley so I decided to stick closer to home and not drive out to Surry. The last few trips , I have been going to the York river or my side of the James. Today I hit the James from the James city side. The weather was stormy and the water was rough which made for a tough kayak ride but at least it wasn't hot. When I got to t...

  The first of this species that I've ever found.  Not a perfect specimen, with 3 out of 5 points missing, but still a great addition to my collection.

Sure feels good to be back in the game again.  We have not been able to do any hunting for awhile now since we were in the process of buying a house in New Bern, NC.  Thank god thats all over with...hopefully i wont have to do that again for a few years.  Then in the middle of all that i got sent down to Mississippi for two weeks for school.  I did manage to get a couple of hunts in when i was there though.  One in MS and one in AL. ...

In my “youth” I used to collect crinoids and any other fossils / rocks that looked interesting to me.

Some rhyolite projectiles.

E-mailed picture to our "local expert" how identified them for me

Mr. Warrner Williams

warnerarrows@triad.rr.com

very friendly and helpful

First, I need to give a special thanks to Daryl for his assistance in identifying / verifying my finds at the Green Mill Run (GMR).  This is my first trip posting.

A nice specimen from the river.

With our new found spot primed for an aquatic pillaging, myself, T$, DW and the two Weez-Boyzz all joined in a fossil bonanza. The day was sunny, hot; and the river viszo was pretty good. It did not take long for us gear up and start collecting. I found some nice layer covering Chandler Bridge and the binge began with a nice angy followed by a large squalodon incisor.&nbs...

High tide Surry side.

This one is a gem.

The largest Parotodus measures 1 1/16 inches and the smallest 13/16 inches. I found both of them a few feet apart from each other.  

  It's been a while since I posted a trip from the Bay.  Actually, it's been almost a month since anyone posted a Bay trip.  I'd bet that every other Bay hunter is in the same boat as me: I'm still going out every week, but I'm just not finding much.  We haven't seen any real storms in a good while, so there haven't been any new falls, and nothing is eroding out of the cliff.  At the same time, the number of people collecting there...

Just another day with the ditchweezil, the weezling, t$, and da fossz at the river were the racking seems to never end... for some of us.