Creek hunt today, couple interesting non-artifact finds

[flinginairos]

Hit the creek again today hoping to find something and didn't have much luck. Did find this fossil in a rock an another weird looking rock. No artifacts but was fun getting out for a while!

The last one almost looked like the edge was chipped off and was sharp but it looked natural to me and not done by man


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[welsbury]

That rock has TEETH! Cool piece.

 

[GaRebel1861]

That first rock does look pretty cool!

 

[flinginairos]

Any idea what that could be? I have no clue lol


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[NCPeaches]

I think I know what the first one is. Found it when I was searching Gastroliths and here is a link to the site of other cool stuffs... Fossils and More - Geology for Today   -  Dr. Tambra L. Eifert

Graptolite: Time (Cambrian to Mississippian)

Graptolites were a small group of aquatic, colonial organisms that first appeared during the Cambrian Period. Their outer-coverings were made of material very similar to our fingernails with no mineralized hard parts. Graptolites are most commonly preserved as carbonaceous (calcite-rich) impressions on black shale. They can also be found in limestone rocks too. They had one or more branches and sometimes are mistaken as fossil plants rather than animals. They have undergone extensive evolutionary changes and are now very useful as index fossils for identifying certain-aged rocks.

 

[ncnurseryman]

Any day on the creek is a good day!!

 

[flinginairos]

Thanks NCpeaches that looks like the answer! Interesting. I am thinking about making a sifter and going through a few sections of the creek to see if I can find something. Anyone had any luck with that method?


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[SnakemanBill]

That second pic looks like a Hellbender artifact

 

[flinginairos]

That second pic looks like a Hellbender artifact

What is a hellbender?


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[Plumbata]

Although closely resembling the nice picture of the Grapolite specimen, your fossil appears to be a section of Crinoid stem which has been worn away, revealing the hollow internal tube.

 

[SnakemanBill]

Hellbender is a species of Salamander found in clean fast moving rivers. they grow quite large up to 2ft in length and are quite wrinkly with foldsof skin.

 

[redbeardrelics]

Cool rock with teeth !! May be a Grapolite/Graptolite, may be a partial Crinoid stem, or may actually be the remains of one of those Langolier's from the Stephen King movie. no matter what it is it is cool, and I wish I could find one. HH

 

[NCPeaches]

Cool rock with teeth !! May be a Grapolite/Graptolite, may be a partial Crinoid stem, or may actually be the remains of one of those Langolier's from the Stephen King movie. no matter what it is it is cool, and I wish I could find one. HH

Definitely cool and I wish I could find one too!

 

[NCPeaches]

Thanks NCpeaches that looks like the answer! Interesting. I am thinking about making a sifter and going through a few sections of the creek to see if I can find something. Anyone had any luck with that method?

After I found that little one that is my avatar pic I started scooping up the pebbles there, putting them in a bucket, brought them up to the house and sifted using a plastic collander and a watering can. I found a small flake and small pottery shard after sifting 3 bucket fulls. I tried the wooden frame with wire in the creek and only found a quartz rock with small garnets embedded but it was back breaking. Most of the time I find stuff raking sandbars letting the water wash the sand with a garden rake but you have to be careful raking because you might break something, so far I've been lucky. I have tons more shards than stone things but all of the stone points/knifes were found in gravel bars and most were stuck on top. Hope this helps but it is very time consuming but gratifying when you do find something. Do you find any glass or bottles in your creek? I've also found out that where there are glass shards there are more than likely pottery shards as they are similar in the way they move in the creek. Good luck and keep looking, you'll find something I'm sure. What area are you in?

 

[flinginairos]

Thanks NCpeaches that looks like the answer! Interesting. I am thinking about making a sifter and going through a few sections of the creek to see if I can find something. Anyone had any luck with that method?

After I found that little one that is my avatar pic I started scooping up the pebbles there, putting them in a bucket, brought them up to the house and sifted using a plastic collander and a watering can. I found a small flake and small pottery shard after sifting 3 bucket fulls. I tried the wooden frame with wire in the creek and only found a quartz rock with small garnets embedded but it was back breaking. Most of the time I find stuff raking sandbars letting the water wash the sand with a garden rake but you have to be careful raking because you might break something, so far I've been lucky. I have tons more shards than stone things but all of the stone points/knifes were found in gravel bars and most were stuck on top. Hope this helps but it is very time consuming but gratifying when you do find something. Do you find any glass or bottles in your creek? I've also found out that where there are glass shards there are more than likely pottery shards as they are similar in the way they move in the creek. Good luck and keep looking, you'll find something I'm sure. What area are you in?

I am in north Central WV. I really haven't seen any evidence in any of the creeks I have looked in. I KNOW they were in my area so I find it a bit strange. Points have been found in our field years ago when it was plowed (hasn't been plowed in 40 years) and I found a point maybe 100 yards above a creek just laying on top of the ground. I feel like there should be good spots in my area to creek hunt. I just haven't found them yet!

 

[DigIron2]

Neat fossil!I would have thought i found something with those other two rocks.