Holy beaver damage!
Once I got there, I knew I was going to have my work cut out for me!!
So, I decided I would just sit and have lunch first - eating lunch on the beach in Chesapeake Bay.
Actually found my first tooth right where I was sitting. I sifted through the debris and sand right at my feet and turned up (what I thought was) a Cretoxyrhina (shark) tooth. As it turns out, though, this area is Miocene, not Cretaceous where I'm used to hunting. So these sharks were MUCH younger than anything I've found before.
Actually found a non-shark tooth as well. Some sort of fang (seen on the far right). I have no clue what it might be though!
Had a great variety of shells as well. Much better looking than the cretaceous junk I normally see in the Western Kansas chalk!
Not an extraordinary fossil hunting day, but to paraphrase my friend Tom Caggianno, 'a bad day hunting fossils, is better than any other day!'
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