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A megalodon is a megalodon (6-8-07)
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Wasn't much around and the tide was high because it was one of those transitional tides where they seem to be all weird. I was lucky enough to find some huge gravel sections and put my rake to the test. No megalodons but a 2 nice makos and a nice hemi. were found which were my best fossils for the whole day. My dad on the other hand had himself a small megalodon. For my dad he neer likes to sit still and wait for something to come to him so he started to head down the beach and over the large tr... |
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Fathers day finds
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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My wife asked me what I wanted to do this fathers day, so I took full advantage of this opportunity. I called my dad up and we both headed out to the bay to just relax.
Fishing, exploring, testing out his new homemade potato launcher (this thing is REALLY cool), and fossil hunting were all in the plans.
I timed it so my father would drop me off at a totally new cliff ... |
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Reading The Cliffs
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Friday, 8 June 2007 - I finally got a 3rd opportunity to go to the cliffs and finally started having better luck. It started with finding a pretty nice vert right at the start followed by a detached growth plate. I'm not sure exactly why, but I have been really looking to find one of these after my brother started pulling them out of the ground down there in South Carolina. Soon after, I found a very nice fish vertebrae while all along the way finding the smalli... |
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never hurts to repeat your steaps 5-29-07
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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The day seemed perfect for a fossil hunt. I headed right my father headed left. Usually by this tiem some local person would be reaching the location that my fatuer and i were at but today no one came(for now). I found a few nice teeth the nicest was a croc. tooth or was it. As i walked in the direction of my dad i picked up some nice makos just uncovered after my dad passed them. Right before i got to my dad a tip off a croc. tooth washed up in front of me, i get to my dad just after that ... |
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dug up a cow 5-13-07
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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we didnt find much in the means of good teeth. There ware tracks from someone who had been there before us so thats probley why the sea didnt provide as much as we wished. We tried everything to mabey with a little luck have something pop up for us to grab and make the day seem better then it would be, but no luck. The gravel was there but there were no large teeth in the spots. There were some smaller makos and a few hemi's but nothing shocking. After a while i got bored and went out looki... |
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Footprints 4-29-07
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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We arrived at our normal spot soon after sunrise with an hour to low tide.The beach was mostly sand covered with no waves coming in ,it didn't look good. We headed opposite directions from the boat so we could get a pass in before someone showed up. I found bits of bone ,small teeth and 2 1 1/2 " makos .My son did a little better finding several makos ,2 squads and a broken chub . we wern't alone after that someone from the mgs had came down the beach. I guess she wasn't watching the groun... |
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M4 Megalodon Alert!
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Well, after 16 years of looking for a honker it finally happened, just not as expected. For years I only knew of and/or had access to one place to fossil hunt. During those first painful years the best area was a long 1.5 mile one way walk northward over a long, flat stretch of beach with little finds to an outcrop that always seemed to produce some fossil goodies. It was always disheartening though to walk the 1.25 miles to see a local come down 100 yards ... |
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Fuel for the fire
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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You can't find a whole meg every trip , but you can sure try! This fossil adventure is more about what could have been, then what did happen. It still was a good trip. I found a couple of half way decent ecphora, a nice sand tiger, a small but nice mako, a large portion of a skate mouth plate, and a real nice ear bone. The beach provided just en... |
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Size doesn't (always) matter...
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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The day began heading to the Calvert area a few hours before low tide. After finding one spot closed, we stopped for lunch and found the locals quite helpful with pointing out some spots. Arriving on the beach we were met with the surreal image of a silent but pretty crammed beach full of people with heads in collanders. At that moment, I realized the possibility of finding ones like I did with my brother in Summerville just reached nil.
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Variety is great...but MEGS still rule!!
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Three days have past since half of the eastern seaboard experienced the "perfect storm", at least for this year. I had an opportunity to hit my favorite beach this morning so I set the alarm a little early. I made my way down even though I knew the tide was going to be a little too high, and the wind was still going to be a little too strong. ... |
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Wonderful April hunt
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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The day started off very calm, and clear and the tide was low with no waves, close to the boat my father found 1 beautiful croc tooth and another that was a little worn, for me i found a 1.5in mako and a hemi out in te water aways burried under a little bit of sand. As the day went on it seemed as if there was not to much to find untill in front of me i found a nice megalodon tooth with no root and the a large chunk off a chub., so i go to tell my father about this section of some ok g... |
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not much around today
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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We wanted to get a good start to the day in the right mood for fossiling. After we left for our favorite spot we seemed to notice that the day may not be as great as we thought it would be. The waves were rolling in and only scraping away at the sand that was covering the stuff under the beach.
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Casting off with "USS Fossil"
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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This was going to be only my second adventure for my new kayak which a friend dubbed "USS Fossil". I was to hit the beachhead at daybreak, again at a new spot (most of these places are well know areas on the bay, but for me they are "new spots"). The day actually started off a little disappointing. The tide was right, and the conditions looked good, but the teeth were not cooperating. Eventually I started getting some finds for my new c... |
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Whale of a Cow...oops... Whale AND a Cow.
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I recently broke down and bought a kayak for the sole purpose of harvesting 6" Megs from various regions of the bay and Potomac river. This was going to be my first trip to a completely new area along the bay for me, and any time you get to hunt a new place its exciting. Knowing that a 6" Meg was probably not in the forcast, I was just hoping to have a good morning and not encounter as many people as I do at my normal haunt. A good d... |
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You can't beat Brownies for breakfast.
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I have had a tough work schedule lately. Only one fossil adventure over the past two weeks. This morning I thought if I played my cards right with work I could get a quick hunt in at my favorite beach. I got up extra early and made my way all the way down to the hunting grounds only to find that a guy from Syracuse, New York left at 10 pm last night to hunt this beach!! (tru... |
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Thats not a tooth or is it?
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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We got a late start to the day not expecting to go but we couldn't pass on the low tide. As we went by the cliffs to our fossiling spot it was obvious that we wern't alone. A group of around 13 people from the Calvert Marine Museum we there for the same reason we were but luckily for us only about 4 of them choose to get to my father and I's favorite section. Me and my father went are seperate ways each of us finding tons of bones and vertabraes around the same time... |
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Presidents Weekend Bay Trip
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Went out for a cold walk on the beach with paleo scan. Found these at my favorite beach. Neither of use found lots of teeth but we found tons of bone - over 25 vertebra between the two of us. The few teeth that I did find were nice. The cow shark was found in a footprint that had unfortunately broken the root, but it was lying right there so was easy to notice and reattach. The hemmie has classic color. The squalodon molar is the find of the trip and the first molar from the bay that I get t... |
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July 2006 Bay Trip
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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This was fossilguy and my annual post-education event weekend at the bay. We had visions of multi megalodons but ended up with none between the two of us. We searched over 20 miles of beach area over the 3 days covering 40+ million years of marine history. My finds of the trip were both firsts for me, a small nurse shark tooth and an intermediary tooth (minus the root) from the early Miocene (?).
Not much in the way of large sized finds but we had a blast. The finds above the ruler are fr... |
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Skull Report
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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After years of finding cool stuff along the cliffs and calling local museums to quarry skulls that I had spotted, it finally happened - I spotted a skull that was fair game for myself!! Only the very tip of the snout was sticking out of a huge block of zone 11 in the wash zone on the beach my friend calls “the batan death march”. With no plaster with me, I decided to just remove it in a block. Easier said then done…
As with most skulls along the cliffs that are found in deep water environm... |
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A Squalicorax that floats?
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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These fossils were actually collected outside my house on the Chesapeake Bay. I was waiting for something nice to go with Croc teeth before I posted. Within about 2 weeks, I these two croc teeth and the two others shown in a previous post. The mako I found on a trip out in my boat the Squalicorax. Notice the pathological bulge on the side of the tooth.... |
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Finally - One to Keep!
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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After years of hunting the Chesapeake Bay and looking for a “keeper” sqaulodon tooth I finally got one. The conditions were right – they were calling for highs in the low 50’s with a 30-40 mph NNW winds so I took the day off work and headed to the Bay. I arrived at 7:30 and hunted my favorite stretch of beach. Found a bunch of nice hemmies and few makos and was ready to turn around to head back when, for some reason, I decided to keep going, past where I usually stop on each trip there. Af... |
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Calvert Cliffs Fossil Hunt Feb. 6 2006
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Well, it had been months since my last trip to the Bay and with the pending snow storm in the afternoon and a nice low tide in the morning this was going to be a search and dash day trip. I went to my favorite beach and it was prime. Gravel everywhere, nice low tide and no one else in sight. The water was cloudy due to recent falls so that could be the only condition to complain about on this trip. I didn’t find a Meg but I did find a large, uncommon porpoise tooth in excellent condition and... |
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Sometimes it pays to stick close to home ...
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Mrs. Paleoscan reporting. Himself was waiting for some decent Bay finds before we posted. The invertebrates are especially for the SC boys! Himself was particularly happy with the croc teeth. The bison tooth was from a couple of weeks earlier. These fossils [land mammals in general] are fairly uncommon here so we wanted to make sure it was not a 200 yr old cow before we posted.... |
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Long Time, No Bay
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Well, it had been months since my last visit to the Miocene beaches of Calvert County. In fact, it was all the back in July with Fossilguy and Paleoscan that I was last able to sample some of the fossil treasures of my favorite beach. I visited my favorite site at first light and again at the end of the day but not much to speak of. I did find my nicest crocodile tooth from that particular site today. I only have three complete ones from that beach. Seems that the closer you get to the youn... |
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July 2005 Chesapeake Bay Excursion - Day 3
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Day 3:
Site 7. This was a day spent on land. After 7 hours sleep (woo woo!!) we went to my favorite spot on the bay and found some teeth. Same spot that ditchweezil found his C-bay tooth at when he visited us yankees a few years ago. We were beat to the beach by a kayaker by just under 10 minutes and he found a nice small Chub not 20 feet from his pull in spot. I ended up with 2 small chubbies and fossilguy was down an agitated 0-3 in the Meg department. That didn’t last long... |
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July 2005 Chesapeake Bay Excursion - Day 2
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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I was on much of the mega trip with m4 and fossilguy in July to the
Chesapeake region. I am happy to anounce that despite their best
efforts on the PAX, they did not tip over m4's boat. The collecting
spanned about 50 million years of geologic time which is why it is great
to be in this area. I live on the Chesapeake and can pratically pee on
cliffs of the Calvert Fm from my deck. As the fossil gods smile upon
me, I will post pics and descriptions of the enamel which comes my
way.
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July 2005 Chesapeake Bay Excursion - Day 2
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Day 2:
After getting 6 hours sleep (double the amount from the previous day!!) we headed out with a fellow (from here on know as Paleoscan) who is a long-time visitor to the ditchweezil site. Maybe we should get him an on-line name DW - what do you think? Anyway, we went out to some sweet spots on the Potomac River. Paleoscan has a few intermediary teeth, a crossover between otodus and ariculatis and we were hoping to add one of those to someone’s collection.
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July 2005 Chesapeake Bay Excursion - Day 1
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Background:
FossilGuy and I made plans months ago for a weekend at the cliffs. This was to be our reward for assisting at a daylong fossil event for a local council of cub scouts. No wives, just the Bay Mistress (my little 14 foot boat) and lots of time to scour the shores of the bay and surrounding areas for fossil treasure. The trip did not start off well. Fossilguy’s car died not soon after he arrived at my place. It limped to a garage and was repaired while we were away, ne... |
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An Aurora Appetizer - Calvert Cliffs
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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Well it was that time of year again for the pilgrimage down to Aurora, and I really wanted to make the most of the trip by getting in as much fossiling as I could along the way. My wife was working over-night Thursday into Friday which meant I couldn’t leave any earlier than 5:45 AM, and I needed to be back Saturday night for a family event on Sunday. 42 hours of “cart blanch” fossiling!
My first stop was at Calvert Cliffs to meet up with M4 and a buddy of his. I had never been to the cliffs, s... |
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Finally! A Shot at the Cliffs
Calvert County, Maryland, USA |
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We went on vacation to Williamsburg, VA, and that's too close to some great places not to do a little fossil hunting. I had my wife's stamp approval, so my dad and I mapped it out with m4 and fossilguy way in advance. (be sure to check out the razor time precision in the end!).
- meet at bowling alley at 7:00 am.
- walk cliffs at one spot until 9:00 am...
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