DaChief
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My family and I had a great time this weekend hunting late Miocene Era fossils at the same spot we found some things last week with Grandma. It was my wife's first shot at fossil hunting and we all had a pretty good time till we got worn out from all the digging and bending and sorting.
There had been a fairly good rain a couple of days before and we were the first people there since the rain which had washed some good sized gravel piles up into the turns of the creek. I had found a larger rib bone the day before when I went to see how deep the creek had gotten from the rain. I walked down to the water and it was laying just out of the water on the bank. It appears to be from a Dugong maybe. They were similar to the modern Manatee.
We were pretty lucky using the screening box to sift through the gravel. We were looking for shark tooth fossils and hoped for some better things also. We did pretty good with a total of 36+ shark tooth fossils, two more bone fossils to include what looks like a rib bone and another unknown bone, a couple of crocodile teeth, a nice crinoid stem, an unknown tooth from something and other unknowns. My wife found her first shark tooth fossil and our first of the day and she found a nice sharks tooth fossil still embedded in matrix with the end of the tooth just barely protruding out of the matrix. This gives a good look at where the fossil teeth come from. (See the photo) She also found a nice plant fossil in limestone. The boys enjoyed catching and releasing minnows in a hand net and making dams in a small feeder stream. The creek was crystal clear and by the time of our hunt was only a half foot deep or so in most areas.
Hope you enjoy the photos.
There had been a fairly good rain a couple of days before and we were the first people there since the rain which had washed some good sized gravel piles up into the turns of the creek. I had found a larger rib bone the day before when I went to see how deep the creek had gotten from the rain. I walked down to the water and it was laying just out of the water on the bank. It appears to be from a Dugong maybe. They were similar to the modern Manatee.
We were pretty lucky using the screening box to sift through the gravel. We were looking for shark tooth fossils and hoped for some better things also. We did pretty good with a total of 36+ shark tooth fossils, two more bone fossils to include what looks like a rib bone and another unknown bone, a couple of crocodile teeth, a nice crinoid stem, an unknown tooth from something and other unknowns. My wife found her first shark tooth fossil and our first of the day and she found a nice sharks tooth fossil still embedded in matrix with the end of the tooth just barely protruding out of the matrix. This gives a good look at where the fossil teeth come from. (See the photo) She also found a nice plant fossil in limestone. The boys enjoyed catching and releasing minnows in a hand net and making dams in a small feeder stream. The creek was crystal clear and by the time of our hunt was only a half foot deep or so in most areas.
Hope you enjoy the photos.
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