Vilano beach shark teeth

[GatorBoy]

I got here a little late in the day..and then got rained on...











.will have more time to hunt tomorrow.
It's a good start for a couple hours.
The odd piece is a flake of Flint... Mabey I'll find a point tomorrow.

 

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[Perico]

Nice teeth! I have been shut down on the gulf coast side from all the rain. All the rivers that I like to hunt are too high.

 

[pannerman]

wow, that's awesome! I've only found 1 shark tooth on the beach, and it was tiny.

 

[GatorBoy]

Haha.. I actually have my headlamp on right now.
I got a load of teeth and a couple other things..I'll post everything tomorrow.
I got a real nice tiger shark and bull tooth also.

 

[GatorBoy]

I stopped counting teeth..just loaded in a Ziploc bag.
Here are the best.

 

[GatorBoy]

I thought I was going to find a projectile point for sure after finding several Flint reduction debris pieces.







Hopefully I can get back to that area after a big storm.
I also found some fossil pieces from mammals and reptiles.

 

[GatorBoy]

wow, that's awesome! I've only found 1 shark tooth on the beach, and it was tiny.

Check this one out!
I could have probably found fleas when I was really concentrating.

 

[GatorBoy]

"Insitu"
Ha.. It was a fun trip.

 

[Clay Fisher2]

I found somebody as addicted to fossil hunting as I am! You were killing me with the flashlight hunting! LOL been there, done that too! I hunt Fernandina Beach, FL where the teeth and other fossils are very plentiful. While hunting the teeth, I kept seeing jet black heavy pieces of stuff that were very smooth. I threw those back down until a guy showed me his finds and explained those pieces were actually fossils. I started looking a little closer and found fossilized turtle shells and other type bones. I watch the tide schedule and try to beat the crowd first thing before sunrise whenever we stay there on vacation. I metal detect between tides in the evening when the crowd leaves the chair line. Lots of history on the Island and then there's Cumberland Island.

 

[GatorBoy]

Haha..I actually had a small headlamp on..my legs and back were so tired after those couple of days! Loved it!
I found other fossils too..alot of broken turtle shell and some pieces of mammal bone.
I did find a whole puffer fish mouth plate.
I found a real nice whale tooth my last time there.




I live on the Treasure Coast.. I went on low tide today after work and found some broken mammal bones a bunch of turtle shell pieces and one nice deer tooth.
All in about 20 minutes... I'm always hunting something.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[Clay Fisher2]

A few days hunt on Fernandina Beach

 

[GatorBoy]

Yup! Those are the goods!
What are you calling that large vertebrae?
It reminds me of this one I found after Hurricane Sandy.

 

[Clay Fisher2]

I really do not know enough to identify most of this sampling. Do you think it could belong to a horse? Don't know how old it is. I'm thankful for the young man I met on the beach early one morning that was looking for the very things that I was picking up and throwing back down! Theres no telling what kind of things I had in my hands and didn't know it was something quite significant. Horses were brought over to Cumberland Island in early 1800s and are still there in the wild and on the beach. Beach side of Ft Clinch is directly across the inlet from Cumberland. There are jetties projecting from Cumberland that reach out to where the ocean starts. We go to Cumberland by boat or jet ski every summer but never found anything there but really big conks, sand dollars and star fish. I have walked the island near the old Carnegie ruins and cemetery and found some interesting things. Big no no to take artifacts off the island. I took a small hand made brick that was stamped with a number from the steps of the ruins. Long story - short, the bad luck began the minute I tucked in my backpack. The vultures perched on the chimney stacks standing guard still for Old Lucille Carnegie should have been my reminder about the many tragedies of all that lived there that I read about the islands history. I took that dang thing back the next day! Wished I had a video of the days incidents! It's sorta funny now but it wasn't when everything was coming down! Keep hunting and diggn!

 

[GatorBoy]

Well.. I'm not sure how much you want to learn about all this but the info is out there... there is plenty on the internet to learn all about Florida's history and fossil record.
I would look up Giant ground Sloth and look at the tail verts. With that one I think.
You should take some individual photos of ones you would like ID'd I know most of them ..if not someone will.
This is a great forum.

 

[Ninjafossils]

I really do not know enough to identify most of this sampling. Do you think it could belong to a horse? Don't know how old it is. I'm thankful for the young man I met on the beach early one morning that was looking for the very things that I was picking up and throwing back down! Theres no telling what kind of things I had in my hands and didn't know it was something quite significant. Horses were brought over to Cumberland Island in early 1800s and are still there in the wild and on the beach. Beach side of Ft Clinch is directly across the inlet from Cumberland. There are jetties projecting from Cumberland that reach out to where the ocean starts. We go to Cumberland by boat or jet ski every summer but never found anything there but really big conks, sand dollars and star fish. I have walked the island near the old Carnegie ruins and cemetery and found some interesting things. Big no no to take artifacts off the island. I took a small hand made brick that was stamped with a number from the steps of the ruins. Long story - short, the bad luck began the minute I tucked in my backpack. The vultures perched on the chimney stacks standing guard still for Old Lucille Carnegie should have been my reminder about the many tragedies of all that lived there that I read about the islands history. I took that dang thing back the next day! Wished I had a video of the days incidents! It's sorta funny now but it wasn't when everything was coming down! Keep hunting and diggn!

That really big vertebrae is defenently whale.

 

[GatorBoy]

He's right.. I blew up the photo and looked closer.
Well... After our posts last night I had fossil hunting on the brain.
Today I went to a stretch of beach that I almost always find mammal fossils... only mammal fossils.
I've walked this beach for the last 30 years..surfing,fishing,fossil hunting..ect.. I've never found a single shark tooth.
To my amazement today.. my eyes focused on what kinda looked like a shark tooth...then.. for a second or two I stared at this and saw serrations.."wow" a bull shark tooth!



I immediately thought of Vilano beach and how I would usually find several in a small area once I located one... but what were the chances?
I never find shark teeth on this beach.
Not more than five feet away... @#&%!



It was game on then!!
I wound up with five.







It was 94° today with only a light breeze from the west..off the land.
Even my ears are sunburned. LOL.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[Clay Fisher2]

Cool finds. What is that tubular piece in the last pic? Love the beach glass....of course girls usually do like those kinds of things.....LOL (re: Hey Bro)