The day of the fluke

With the apparent lack of any worthwhile place to dig, I visited a spot that I haven't hunted in well over 3 years. I quit hunting it because there has just always been someplace better! Its an old, overgrown ditch with relatively nothing in the way of complete fossils. I mean seriously, I have never found a complete shark tooth over an inch and a half in length at this spot. Well, I figured that no one else gave this spot a second thought either, so in 3 years of hurricanes, tropical storms, thunderstorms, etc., that this place was due for a hunt. Well, after about 2 hours worth of walking the creekbed and finding 0 fossils (apparently I was not the only one who thought this spot was worth a hunt), I was about to turn around and head back to my truck with my head hung low in defeat when I spotted a bone sticking out of the wall from under some leaves collected on the base of the creek. That means layer! I cleared away the leaves and i found an area about 3 feet long, 1 foot wide and 6 inches deep along the bottom and edge that was freshly exposed and root free! In about 30 minutes I had dug out the area with heretofore unheardof results, for this ditch. From the top of the food chain of species represented by fossils I collected today is a killer megalodon tooth. I also found 4 Carcharocles angustidens, all broken, 4 mako (Isurus hastalis), 1 whole, 3 broken, 2 Great White teeth (Carcharodon carcharias), both damaged, 5 requiem(Carcharinus sp.) shark teeth, all damaged, 2 snaggletooth shark teeth (hemipristis serra), both damaged, 1 sand tiger tooth (carcharias taurus), complete, 1 horse tooth (equus complicatus), nearly complete, and one nearly complete whale tooth, (squalodon atlanticus). I'm not normally so precise with my reporting but I just wanted to illustrate the bounty I found in this small area of Hawthorne formation and to prove that the possibility exists anywhere around here to find something fantastic, even in the seemingly lousiest of spots!