A recent find

[Rick]

Some of you may know that I am an avid fossil hunter. The east coast provides a lot of opportunity for finding fossils. Earlier in January I found this American Mastodon tooth in a creek I frequent for fossils. A find like this is usually found by river divers. It is quite a rare find in general but even more so from this particular location. Thought some here might enjoy:

Me consolidating the root with butvar (Polyvinyl butyral resin) to stabilize it:

 

[Danny.]

Wow what a find!

 

[sally]

that is incredible. good for you

 

[D_Hemptress]

that is SO cool!

 

[BugLover]

wish i could find things like that around here.

 

[Paradoxica]

Amazing

 

[agent A]

nice :tt1:

 

[Plex]

That's an amazing find!!

What other fossils have you found?

 

[Precarious]

Wow! Awesome!

 

[Rick]

That's an amazing find!!

What other fossils have you found?

Lots. Many species of shark. Whale, fish, inverts, mammals, etc.

 

[Paradoxica]

Reminds me of searching for Trilobites with my Dad when I was a kid. We would go out to an eroded hillside in Malibu and dig, we mostly just found fossilized clams, but it was still so fun.

 

[Rick]

Reminds me of searching for Trilobites with my Dad when I was a kid. We would go out to an eroded hillside in Malibu and dig, we mostly just found fossilized clams, but it was still so fun.

Yep. Our strata here is much too young for Trilobites. Oldest we get here is Cretaceous.

 

[OctoberRainne]

OMG this is beyond cool,most kids dream of growing up to find that kind of stuff,guess you're living the dream

 

[AxolotlsAreCoolToo]

yeah right on!! very jealous

 

[Rick]

Here is a 5" Megalodon shark tooth I found last year:

And here is a 5.5" one I found last month. First pic is how I first saw it in my gravel sifter and the second is when I pulled it out:

 

[Rick]

Not fossil people around here huh?

 

[sinensispsyched]

Here in NY we have the Penn Dixie Fossil Park, where it was a prehistoric lake, where you can find trilobites and fool's gold very easily. It was a cool place to go to during a field trip.

 

[Rick]

Here in NY we have the Penn Dixie Fossil Park, where it was a prehistoric lake, where you can find trilobites and fool's gold very easily. It was a cool place to go to during a field trip.

I'm going to be up there this summer. Wife is from Buffalo area. I'm hoping to find a trilobite or something else we don't find around here.

 

[sinensispsyched]

I'm going to be up there this summer. Wife is from Buffalo area. I'm hoping to find a trilobite or something else we don't find around here.

Yeah, its a cool place. Stop by sometime!