- Shark vs. bony fish vertebrae - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum
Hello dear fellow forum members I found a lot of mineralized fish vertebrae, they are mostly jet black, sound like ceramic and are denser then recent fish bones Similar examples in a local museum where labeled as miocene, while more porous tilly bones from the same spot seem to be from the eem
- Michigan Shark Teeth - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum
I don't know Michigan was high and dry from the Mesozoic and later, the ages for these types of teeth (except for the great lakes which are fresh water) These look like shark teeth that are found in coastal areas,Tx, La, Fla, the Carolinas and California
- Creeks rivers ECT near or in indiana to find shark teeth?
Indiana's exposed strata is much older than the shark teeth found by Blackriverfossils Any shark teeth you may find would be from the Paleozoic, rather than the Mesozoic or Cenozoic And those don't look much like typical shark teeth PALEOZOIC SHARK TEETH You would have to travel to the East Coast of America, or Florida, or Texas, or California, to be able to find shark teeth like they find
- Shark Vert Vs Fish Vert - Questions Answers - The Fossil Forum
Shark vertebrae tend to be preserved as just the centrum (the hockey puck-like disk) with two openings on top and two on the bottom where the hemal and neural arches were attached The arches were cartilaginous in life and disintegrate quickly after death The centrum sometimes survives as a fossil because it is at least partially ossified Because they aren't solid bone, they are fragile
- Megalodon Shark tooth - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum
I found this Meg tooth a few days ago at Beverly Beach right by Newport, Oregon I wasn’t 100% sure it was a tooth till I very carefully exposed part of the tooth’s surface and serrated edge but the rock it’s encased in is incredibly hard to remove, and I don’t want to go any further or it might
- Sharktooth Island: Tips and finds from my four years in Wilmington, NC . . .
Stumbled on this site and remembered I had an account that I haven't used for a while Five years later, I thought I'd post an update Shark Tooth Island is located in Wilmington, NC, just off the shore from River Road Park If you're standing at the boat ramp facing the river, the island directl
- Shark tooth ID help - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum
This tooth is too worn and incomplete for a positive ID It could be hastalis (extinct white shark), mako, wide -bladed sand tiger, or even a very worn meg fragment It would also help if you would give a more precise location Most of the bay fossils are Miocene, but there is some Pliocene Yorktown Formation towards southern Virginia
- What was a bourlettes purpose? - The Fossil Forum
I know the bourlette on a shark tooth is the chevron shaped material between the enamel and the root, but what was it actually? Clearly it is not root or enamel, but did it serve a specific purpose?
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