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January Lafarge Finds

1/23/2007 11:19:00 PM

ditchweezil

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January Lafarge Finds

I'm interested to know what others found at Lafarge on Saturday.

1/24/2007 1:08:15 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: January Lafarge Finds

I got a rock

1/26/2007 2:08:54 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: January Lafarge Finds

True story . . . A friend of ours had seen our fossil finds from Lafarge and was interested in going with us this trip. This guy was born with a horseshoe up his %$# so we knew if anyone was going to find something it would be him. In fact, on the way to Lafarge that morning I said to my husband - "you watch, it will take Jim about 2 minutes to find a huge tooth."
We opted to trudge over to the "new" spoil pile (what a muddy adventure). We were the first to arrive. Hubby was showing Jim's two young nephews what to look for and my Sister and I had just wandered away when my husband shouts "look what a@#hole just found!" There stood Jim grinning from ear to ear with a near perfect 4" angustidens!
This was his first fossil and first fossil hunt so now he is addicted (it took him <1 min to unearth that tooth).
The pile didn't seem to produce as much for us as in Oct but I we did find some nice teeth this time out too. By the way, Jim's not invited to the April hunt :-)

1/26/2007 7:23:21 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: January Lafarge Finds

Sharon the tooth he found was an auriculatus not an angy. I also found one that was 2 and 7/16 inches and found mine just about as he found his. His is definitely a big awesome tooth!! Another lady also found one about four inches long just as everyone was leaving and about 10 feet away from me . I showed ditchweezil my ric as I'm heading home and he tells me of his finds of the day and that awesome whale tooth. Congrats on the best find this time at Lafarge!!

1/27/2007 1:20:20 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: January Lafarge Finds

Thanks for correcting me Greg - I'm still very new to this and I had hesitated to ID the tooth because I was debating between the two. The side cusps are not prominent on Jim's tooth so opted to base my ID on that. I have two books I just purchased from amazon.com - one is Fossil Shark Teeth of the World by Joe Cocke and the other one is Discovering Fossils by Frank A Garcia and Donald S Miller. If you or any one else has book/reference suggestions - I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

1/27/2007 6:48:15 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

RE: January Lafarge Finds

No Problem. Those are good books you purchased and I'm sure you will learn from them as time goes on and you find more and more teeth from different places. Just for some info on the Angustidens/Auriculatis teeth involving location. Harleyville is an Eocene age site therefore there will only be the Auriculatis teeth found there since they existed during this period approximately 50 million years ago. The Angustidens teeth are of Oligocene Age and are found in places like Summerville where the fossil layer consists of Oligocene deposits which are approximately 30 million years old. It took about 20 million years for the Auriculatis to transform into the Angustidens and then approximately another 15 million more years to eventually evolve into the Megalodon during the Miocene Period. Keep on hunting!!

1/28/2007 2:24:13 AM

ditchweezil

342 posts

RE: January Lafarge Finds

I wrote a rudimentary guide a few years ago about how to tell the difference between angys and rics. Its under the Features menu. If you can't find it, go to google and type in angustidens auriculatus and it will come up at the top of the list. -dw

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