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5/21/2002 3:52:10 AM

ditchweezil

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Best day fossil hunting ever

I write a lot about my trips hunting teeth, and there are definitely trips that stand out. You can read all about my trips on my trips page, but I would like to hear about some of your great fossil hunting trips. You know, the kind that make other people drool and then motivate them to climb down in some sewer in hopes of finding that killer tooth? YAH! That story! I would love to read all about it. And I bet others would, too.

5/21/2002 6:23:47 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

Well, this particular trip took place in Calvert State Park, Maryland. If you are familiar with the place, it is a 2 mile beautiful scenic walk to the beach. My mother and I ran through the forest anticipating searching in a new locality. The second we arrived there, we knew it was magical. My mother prayed to her grandma and a friend of the family who previously died and asked them to make a good experience for me! Then right directly at the entrance of the beach I looked down in the water and picked up the most beautiful thing I have ever held. A 3.5 inch perfect Megalodon tooth. It is my first and only meg tooth I ever found. And what a feeling it was. My mother is convinced it has a spiritual significance because on the back of the rare blond colored meg, the enamel was in the shape of a heart! Keep in mind I am only 18, and collecting for only 10 months. I live in NJ, so I am used to collecting smaller Cretaceous teeth, when I found this it sparked a brand new interest in me, and now I am going to major in Geology/ paleontology in my first year of University of Delaware!...Thanks for listening...Skyler

5/22/2002 2:30:16 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

Here's my best hunting/finding day to date. Of course it was a day in the Lee Creek mine. This was a special invite with a friend who has free reign of the entire mine; with the exception of the area's with on going work. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you look down and find yourself in the midst of hundreds of shark teeth. They're all around you. No matter where you look you can pick some up. Well that was this day in the mine. We went to some old areas and the teeth were everywhere. Most were just sitting uncovered waiting to be picked up. It was hard to believe. I walked out with hundreds of teeth and most were nice ones. It was one of those dream come true days.

5/22/2002 2:14:45 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

The day was a summer day...but sure didn't feel like it. A stiff northwest wind 30-40 mph and the surf was furious and the sand stung. The north end of Myrtle Beach was pretty much deserted...with the exception of some crazy fossil hounds from New York...That day my daughter found a 2 3/4" black great white beauty...you could see the excitement plastered all over her face. For me that was the best day. Chris

5/23/2002 11:05:21 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

Hello Skyler, So you live in my neck of the woods. Let me know if you want to go along with us guys here in NJ for some fossil hunting. We're going out all the time. We'll be indian artifact hunting soon if that interests you at all. Let me know. Roy

5/24/2002 1:59:21 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

fossil hunting in NJ

Hey Roy whats up??? Yeah I would love to go fossil hunting with you! Do you know Derek Yoost, the creator of the Big Brook web page? He is my fossil buddy, we go all over. We collect in Big Brook, Ramanessin Brook, Shark River, and this sunday we are probably going amber collecting in Sayreville! I love this hobby and I would like to go indian arrow hunting with you, or any other locality for that matter! Well you could e-mail me at Pisces2499@aol.com and we could talk that way. How long have you been a fossil hunter?...good to meet another NJ fossil hunter...Skyler

5/28/2002 4:48:17 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: fossil hunting in NJ

Hey Skyler, I'm just getting back to the forum. Sorry it's taken this long to reply although contact was already made. I don't know Derek Yoost personally but have heard of him on several occasions. We should all get together and hunt soon. I'll let you know just as soon as we get a date set for arrowhead hunting. It will be soon. I've been doing this for about 10 years. Lot's of fun. I'll converse with you at your email address after this message. We'll keep this forum for the stated use. Talk to you later, Roy

5/30/2002 4:27:43 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

i got the fever about a year ago, i live in va. and began by looking in the usual riverside banks around here, then i heard of a friend of a friend who owned a sand and gravel operation where teeth supposedly could be found, well, i got permission and what a site it turned out to be, the place was next to a river and had i small drainage ditch in it that went down into the blue miocene marl, i'm pretty sure i was the first person to seriously collect there, i just looked in the small spoil piles next to the ditch and WOW!, the best day i found a dozen perfect auriculatus teeth (beutiful serrations, great color, etc.), the site is a real gold mine for cow shark teeth also and i usually leave with 4 to 6 each time, i've found bird bones, squalodon molars and incisors, porpoise and croc teeth, cool ray scutes, bird bones, pleistocene land mammal teeth, etc., interestingly enough though not a single meg, ditchweezil i really like your site, by the way i was at aurora the week after you were there, i didn't find much but did get the nicest meg of the day (about 2.5 inches), email me sometime i'd like to talk fossils with you, if you're ever in va. get in touch and i'll take you to some good spots, by the way i will be in south carolina in july, plan to hunt edisto island and was wondering if you had info/advice, or ideas of other areas to hunt,

5/30/2002 4:28:02 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

5/31/2002 5:27:40 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Best day fossil hunting ever

Hey Ditchweezil. I have been following your exploits for almost a year now (makes for good reading material during work). So, I grew up in Memphis, TN which meant great access to Cretaceous Marine Verts in TN and MS. The best day collecting for me in terms of shark teeth was when I was turned on to a site in N. Mississippi. A new extension to HWY 45 was being built and a buddy from the Memphis Pink Palace Museum turned me on to the site. Anyway, my first day, I collected a total of 2025 shark teeth, plus a huge assortment of other fossils both vertebrate and invertebrate. I ended up collecting the site off and on for almost three years, ending up with a total of 30,554 shark teeth. The largest species being Scapanorhynchus sp. of which the larget teeth are right at 2 1/4" long. Total collection from the site = 40,475!! Sharks, Rays, Sawfish, Mosasaurs, Turtles, a few Dino teeth, Crabs and Shrimp and so on... very lucky!

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