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what a great way to start the year
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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After partying like it was 1999 I woke up and drove strait down to the beach. The wind has been blowing all night with up to 50 mph gusts. As soon as we get to the beach my friend and I walk north. surched an area thoroughly. I found the whale skull fragment at that time. Then we walked 2 miles of beach and only found a contortus....Hahaa All the way at the end between some boulders where no one looked was a tiny meg. Nice, broken but it was all I had. I picked up the occasional vert fr... |
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12/7 Not much..
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Took a walk on my favorite beach on Sunday, 12/7 during the afternoon low tide.. Sand was everywhere and it would be no stretch to say that this was my least productive trip here in recent memory. I did find a very small porpoise tooth and a shame’r of a large porpoise tooth. If the large one was whole that would have saved the trip but no luck. It was cold and windy, barely into the 30’s if that but still there were several people on the beach. At least six others if I remember correctly. ... |
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10/26/2008 - The One that got Away
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Well, it has been a while since I’ve posted to BRF and now this will be my third in rather quick succession. Having a working home computer and fossils to post about are a key ingredient to creating a post so that’s really the tale of why. This year has been the least amount of collecting that I’ve done in the last five years; hopefully next year will be different…
On Sunday, October 26 I had plans to meet up with Paleobum for an outing along the Chesapeake Bay. I had h... |
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Fresh air and nice porpoise/dolphin tooth
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Felt good to get out last Saturday after a long work week. The fresh air, sunrise on the water, and a few nice teeth made for a nice outing. No big showy Megs or anything real rare, however, I found an odd shaped porpoise/dolphin tooth with a really long narrow pointy crown. Not sure if I've ever found one like this before, but if I have, I certainly don't remember it so perhaps this species is a bit more uncommon. Also found two nice s... |
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Only time of year I wake up this early
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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This is what you call a damn good blowout tide. One meg in the cobble stone, only root exposed. Another in sand being washed out only very tip exposed. A 3.25 inch meg cracked right down the center. That would of been beautiful! Then a tiny worn meg to top the day off...But wait! On the way off the beach another pathological upper hemi was on top the sand. Weird looking. It seems to me that H.serra has more pathologies then any other shark.
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A few more scraps
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Hit the beach early today and caught a nice sunrise. Not many teeth since there was a lot of sand piled up. Had to resort to sifting again - man that water is cold on your hands. Did manage to catch a decent mako before a wave covered it back up with sand. Also found a nice small posterior thresher and the usual small stuff.
Daryl. &l... |
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Odds & Ends ** UPDATED WITH GROUND SHOTS **
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Went collecting last week down at Calvert Cliffs hoping for some new material, but nada. So spent a lot of time sifting with a couple different size screens to at least not go home empty handed. Found a decent assortment of the tiny not so common teeth, a couple porpoise teeth, and a decent Meg with a couple dings, but overall pretty nice. Still nice to get out and get some fresh air.
I added the ground shots I took... |
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First time at Brownies
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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In our little adventure up to MD we hit Brownies for a day but the tides and sand didnt work to well with us and we didnt find that much. One of the spots that Obsessed1 took us to ended up being just about the same but my wife did find a nice posterior and a decent croc tooth. Those were the finds of the day. I hope we can get back up there when the conditions are better. ... |
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last few trips
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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we got a few nice finds, no huge megs, i guess paleo is finding them all but we have been finding land mammal teeth we are 2 for 2 now. Found one last week and then again yesterday. Yesterday we also found a nice serrated giant thrasher. Its getting cold out and usually i find at least one nice big tooth when it does so wish us luck.
I also put the hex tooth in from a few trips ago.
good luck everyone... |
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I'm Lovin It
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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The sand is finally starting to go away a little bit. Winds are great. Im lovin it about now.
The megs are (2 3/4)---(2 13/16)*---(1 7/8)---(1 9/16)---(1 1/4)
The makos are all around the 1.5 inch range.
Great big Hemis and theres alot of them right now.
Nothing to out of the ordinary.
Beaches (3)-(5) ... |
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