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Keep on Rackin in a Free World
DW and I had been eyeing the Edisto for several weeks; waiting for safe diving conditions to collect some fossils after an extended absence . I made the trip to the Lowcountry and met up at Chez Weezil jammin to the father of grunge.....The day was spectacular for collecting with bright sunshine and good viso; and after a winter of high water, we planned on a paleo-droolfest. The first dive I tried my new gear out in some deeper parts of the river and did not collect much; the seccond dive I was ready to rack!
We set up our dive flags so the boaters would have an obstacle course, and settled on our favorite dive spot. Within five minutes I had a sweet double-root squalodon tooth, and the teeth and bones were popping out of the gravel bed. This spot has been yielding fossils for years and the hits kept coming! I saw DW filming our paleo-adventure and expressing his artistic vision of fossil collecting; and then he scored a archeo-mystecite whale tooth! Awesome! I think we both feel this fossil is a top prize from this strata! I continued my search and fanned out a sweet Kirk spear point, then some potsherds. I planted on this 10 foot x 5 foot area of the river and bagged a nice angy, bones and loads of teeth. I found an unidenfied bone (far left of haul picture), any suggestions?
I met up with DW at the boat and he had bagged a huge angy, and the best Oligocene P. benedini I have seen! The boat nearly sank from the drool intake the boat took after I laid out my fine wares from the day. Maybe one of the best collecting days we've had in a while! 1 available
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| ID | 3682 |
| Member | da fossz |
| Date Added | 5/30/2010 |
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| What a nice haul today! I left out the pile of smaller teeth and frags. Not sure what the bone is on left. |
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Great Stuff - 5/30/2010
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DeloiVarden from South Carolina United States
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| Thanks for sharing your fossil trip. Some great specimen. I have done pretty well searching Charelston and Dorchester counties, but hope to search Colleton soon. I have no clue what that large bone shard is. |
Content Quality : 10 of 10
Drool Quotient : 10 of 10
Picture Quality : 10 of 10
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strange bone - 6/1/2010
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fossil1111 from
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| I can not see from the picture (a litttle too dark)- but is there a socket joint at the proximal end of the bone. If so it may be a scapula. Just a thought. |
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