The interesting thing about this tooth are the cool wrinkles on the labial side.

Today is Sunday and after the monster mako yesterday I just had to try my luck again. My goal was to dig a large section of matrix and hope for the best. I finished off the little area the mako came out of. Hit another spot right beside it…Then still with no luck decided to start attacking a rather large pile. I went through tons of matrix. Thr...

Digging through zone 17 in a slump pile and this little guy says hello...By far the largest Ive seen from the bay!

And on formation at the bottom it doesnt say choptank as a possible choice.??? Thats where the tooth came from.

So I finally own a digital camera so you all should be seeing alot more good posts from  me...cliffs permitting.  Anyway here are some interesting finds Ive had from the Calvert formation within the last year.

The first is a mystery bone I found why wading in the water. Looks like an antler to me but its hollow inside?

A meg stuck in concretion I dug out of a pile in April.

And a large piece of fossilized woo...

This report is from last Sunday.       I was able to get down to the cliffs for a while on Sunday morning and even though the wind was blowing from the NE which means larger than normal waves and therfore harder hunting it still beats staying at home!! With the waves being what they were I was scooping up anything that had that "black" fossil look.

I ended up doing ok. But both the ...

Today as I was cleaning the fossils from my latest shark tooth hunt at the yellow ditch, I looked upon the masses of teeth with whimsy and I wondered what it would be like if I weren't there to pick them up?

Only briefly could I bear to think of the sadness of these rocks with no one to appreciate them as they sat and slowly weathered away to nothingness in the dingy recesses of the creek. Rampant pollution of the waterway and prolonged exposure to the toxin...

The wife and I decided to do a little hunting last weekend after the rain.  We probably should have waited a week or so because it was so muddy.  But I couldn't wait knowing with the large amount of rain that we received that there would be big teeth sitting right on top.  This day wasn't that case; it seems that the rain covered up all the teeth that would have been out there and instead we ended up s...

It’s amazing the root didn’t break off because it’s so thin. This is the best squalodon tooth I’ve found in a really long time!

It’s amazing the root didn’t break off because it’s so thin. This is the best squalodon tooth I’ve found in a really long time!

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A nicely made Lowcountry chert spear tip. It is broken at the base, but the serrated edges and sharp point are intact.

A few Indian relics picked up near Lake Marion SC.

The wife found this little gem when we we started to walk back to the bus from all the way in back.  It must have been walked over a bunch of times by this time of year!

Last weekend the wife and I got lucky when two people canceled there trip into the mine last minute so we ended up getting one last trip.  When we first arrived the word was out that there had been two 6" teeth that had came out.  I was hoping that this day would be my lucky day.  Unfortunately this wasn’t my lucky day, it was the wifes.  She blew me away with all the teeth that she f...

We had been at Aurora on Sunday the 25th and decided to stay over to search in GMR on Monday. On Sunday I found my smallest Meg ever. Little did I know it was going to be another one of those days. I had only been to this creek once before and didn't find a complete Great White that day so that was my goal today just one complete Great White to take back to Maryland.

The first thing I noticed was that there were little piles of sifted gravel as...

This is my smallest Meg tooth to date. This tooth was found just minutes before time to head back to the bus!!

        I would like to thank BRF and PCS for the chance to enter into the mine. With all the reports of lack of rain to uncover fossils we decided that we would head in different directions until one of us found a promising area then we would work it over together. I had been walking about 20 minutes when I found an area of Pungo and Yorktown mixed. As I pondered where to go next I saw a serrated tip sticking out...

Made another trip to Richlands just to see if I could find my elusive Archaeocete tooth.  It finally happened!!!!  When we were getting ready to leave I decide to start searching real close to the ground to try and find some smaller teeth.  I saw a weird looking nub sticking out of some limestone and pulled it out not even thinking that ...

Wednesday morning  540 AM standing on matoaka cabins beach looking out at the bay. It was dark cold and the moon was out but not that bright Windy north 8-12 knots. I said a prayer and jumped in the kayak and started the long journey  to scientists cliffs. Well that was the plan at least. After about a mile of waves crashing into ...

First off i want to thank Blackriver Fossil club for the chance to hunt at aurora.  I made a weekend of it, stopped by Green Mill Run on saturday afternoon for my first visit there.  Home football game there so the place was hopping.  Only two other people in the creek though.  No great whites but did get baggie full of nice belemnites (first i've found) and one decent crow shark, also a first for me.

On to the mine! I col...

I am putting this under Angy's until I can figure out the age of the material we are finding the teeth in.

update:  12/09 found out the material we are finding the teeth in is late eocene.  so now this tooth will be listed under auriculatus.

This was a trip the wife and I took a few weeks ago to the quarry in Richlands, NC.  I was hoping to find an Archeocete or a Ric but when we first got into the quarry it didn’t look to promisi...

I have been hunting a lot, even though I haven't been posting a lot. This is the sum of 5 hunts - about 15 hours of digging. I've known about this spot for a while, but the layer is so deep and the digging is so hard that I haven't hunted it for years. But I'm in famine mode now, so its back to the old spots.

The good thing about this place is the colors on the teeth - they are amazing!Plus there are big teeth there, but then comes...

I was with t$ one time when he found a flawless split tip tiger shark tooth and I have always regretting not beating him up and running off with it Now I am a member of the double tip tiger club, so I can let go of the past. Its nice to grow as a person, isn't it?

We had a quick rain shower the other day so I drove down to my favorite ditch after I dropped the weEzlinG off at school. There weren't any footprints so I knew I had a chance at something good. About halfway through the hunt I spied a reef shark tooth fully exposed in the bottom of the ditch. Sweet. Its nice to rack when there is still more ditch to scour.

This place is hit or miss, but its better where the oligocene formations are exposed so they can erode so the b...

I found this one comming back up the hill and it was in a little pocket that made it impossible to see on the way down.  If it wasn't for the tip it would make it over 4" with out a doubt.

update: 12/09 find out today from one of the aurora guides that this tooth is actually a late Eocene Auriculatus.

I got real lucky when I found this one.  I started to slide down a hill while still looking and when I came to a stop I was looking right next to a log and saw about 1/2" of enamel and a small section of  root.  I started to dig it out and was doing the please be whole chant the entire time.  Luckily it came out fairly decent with a little nick on the tip and&nbs...

My much anticipated slot at Aurora came back on the 7th and with word of the large collecting area spreading like wildfire, expectations were running high. At the end of my early morning eastward trek, I made a pre-pit stop at the Aurora Fossil Museum to pick up a couple of containers of spoil material that I intend on using for fossil talks with Scout troops. Once by bins were full I headed for the parking lot where it was great seeing so many familiar faces going in on the ...

Missing a cusp and small piece of root but im not complaining.

What a specatcular river tooth! This one flapped out of the sand. There is slight wear on the tip, and luckily has most of the bourlette.

After the success of last weekend’s hunt, what could possibly trump my success? There is only one card to play……..

I have been collecting steady for about 13 years now and recent trips to the Edisto have demonstrated that the elusive 4” killer angy is out there. Unfortunately for me, all I have found are frags and shame-ers. Myself and DW decided a mid-week hunt was in order to break the hustle and bustle of our busy grind. We loaded up the boat...