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Digging for teeth

3/17/2003 10:32:39 PM

legacyForum

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Digging for teeth

Hey Ditchweezil, I was just wondering how often you run into teeth while digging. I've tried to dig a few times into some of the fallen cliff. I have only found a few small teeth while doing this. Can you see the teeth without sieving through the dirt? I have seen a couple guys digging through the same stuff that have found a couple decent sized vertibra. How do you know if a particular hunk of layer is worth spending time on or if you should look for another one? Thanks

3/18/2003 3:21:19 PM

ditchweezil

347 posts

Re: Digging for teeth

Hey Ben, I find almost all of my teeth by digging. I can tell you what I look for, but its not necessarily the same thing you would look for because your fossil bearing layers are different. The one commonality is that teeth are often found together. This is because of several reasons. (1) When sharks feed, they often lose several teeth at a time. And since sharks feed in packs, there would be multiple teeth lost over the same general area. They fall to the bottom, are covered up, voila. Multiple teeth close together. (2) Water currents tend to sort similar shaped things together. Case in point: When I find meg teeth, I ALWAYS find big flat rocks and bones close by. That brings me to (3) Teeth are usually found near artifacts of their prior presence, i.e., Shark food. And since I want big teeth, I look for whale bones. Now, keep in mind that there will always be isolated teeth found because sharks naturally lose their teeth. Sometimes they just fall out. These are the teeth that have the greatest chance of being perfect when we find them. hope this helps, dw

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