We've been hitting the beach pretty hard recently, and it has been generally uneventful. By that , I mean that, on a normal 2 hour beach search, my wife and I will find about 120 - 150 shark teeth, but only 4-8 of them are what we put in the "good specimen" box. The others go into a box that has, literally, thousands of teeth in it. Small ones, broken ones, just normal, run-of-the-mill teeth. And, every once in a great while, we (alright - she) finds something really cool.
Like the subject of today's contest. The last picture is our first find of a certain unusual fossil. Identify the fossil and I will send you a set of 5 each, 15 - 17 million year old shark teeth fossils. One each: Sand Tiger, Tiger, Hemipristis, Lemon, and Requiem shark, and a crushing plate from a Ray.
There haven't been any major storms to stir things up, and summer has the most people on the beach, so the "toothing" can be tough at times; still, here are a few of our recent finds:
A really nice speciman of Cow Shark
A good Mako for the area we hunt
A couple of Hemipristis, or Snaggletooth shark teeth
Some nice Tiger Shark teeth
AND FINALLY, THE MYSTERY PIECE. FIRST CORRECT GUESS WINS!!
9 comments:
Hi Joe. Just a really off the wall guess, a squid tooth?
Mark
Interesting guess, Mark, but it's not a squid tooth
Joe I'm going out on a limb here and guessing either the tympanic bulla or the periotic. (ear bone).
Cheers
Callan
Howdy Joe. Interesting for sure. My guess because it's the only part of biology that I passed was on ears. I was thinking part of a back bone but I think I was hungry for ribs when I thought that. (don't ask)
Alright - we have winners! Actually, everyone is a winner! "How so?" , you ask?.??
Well , Callan and Howard are both right, If both a little bit incomplete. And, my plan all along was to give a set of teeth to everyone who responded, so I'm even going to include Kari Murray, who emailed her reply ( an eardrum, with an assist to Gooogle Chrome)
The actual, complete answer is a fossilized porpoise earbone. We have this one - a very nice specimen - and one rather beat up one, after 9 months of looking. So - if I don't have your adresses - email me at biguglystuff at AT&T dot net and I'll send you your startup set of fossils!!!
Thanks for playing
Joe
Oboy a fossil. My wife has a fossil as well. I wasn't when we met but I've turned into one. Not worth much money though unless you count my fly rods and reels.
Nice collection...keep it up!
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Cheers!
Joe, I got my shark teeth today. Thank you! They are very cool. Next drink is on me.
Nice blog...another fishing/fossiling combo blog. I love it. I'll be following. Thanks for visiting my blog by the way, and your nice comments.
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