a fun day at the beach

Dani

Dani

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well hunting seasons are over...soooooo now it's beach season!! Last couple of trips to the beach have turned up a handfull of sharks teeth. Gotta love it. Check em out!!

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The biggest one is about 2 1/4" long. They just wash up on the beach. I've seen people pick some up that are over three inches long. Some are sand sharks', some are mako, one or two are great white and others I don't really know which shark they belonged to, but still cool. My mutt went with me and had a great time, but since I couldn't find my camera I couldn't get a picture of him out there. Hope y'all have a great weekend!!!
 
Dani,

Those are oustanding finds! The really bug ones are from Megladons, yes?
I used to have a place in Ca. where we could find the huge Megladon teeth. There was a bubbling tar pit just a couple hundred yards away and in the 1950's they exumed enough pre-historic critters to fill half of a museum from an area just a few hundred yards long by 100 yards wide mear my shark tooth spot. When I was a kid I was hunting cottontail rabbits in a wash out and found a pre-historic camels skull sticking out of the side of the narrow canyon I was in.

Findi8ng those sharks teeth is really neat, keep it up, the really big ones are worth money!

Dave
 
Man, those are nice teeth. I have a handful of teeth that I found with my dad when we were in North Carolina a few years ago. Only found part of a megladon shark tooth that is about the size of my thumb plus a little more. That fourth largest tooth looks like an ancient mako tooth. Have one of those too and they are wicked sharp! If you find any more of the megladon teeth and want to sell a couple, let me know. I've been looking for a couple nice ones for the fossil collection. Do you find any vertebrae or small whale bones?

Good stuff!

Nate
 
I've found four other large teeth, don't know what they are from, and I've found vertebrae out there. I sometimes bring it home, sometimes not. But I've got a small jar of sharks teeth that I have found. some itty bitty and some decent sized. I do believe that the big ones are megaladon...the black ones but I didn't know that megaladon teeth were anything but black b/c they were so old.

Maybe someone might be able to tell me what these are? I found them several years ago when they were dredging the river. They are light like bone and maybe they are bones...but they looked like teeth.

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Dave-
I hear that there are spoil islands around here that one can find megaladon teeth pretty regularly. Did you leave the camel skull there? That would be a cool fossil to find.
 
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If you ever make it to Venice Beach Florida, it's the shark tooth capitol. Just about every scoop of sand yeilds teeth. Looking at that last photo and talk of vertebrea, could be Jimmy Hoffa.
 
venice beach is a pretty cool place. I found tons of teeth there. We were supposed to go diving for teeth but it was too stormy at the time. bummer

Jimmy Hoffa eh? hmmmmm maybe I ought to call the Feds? :)
 
Dani,

I remember unloading my .22 rifle and tried to jump up high enough to try to dislodge the skull embedded in the narrow canyon wall, but could not reach it from the top or bottom. I walked the 2 miles back to my uncles house and we went back later with a rope and lowered a noose down from above and got it that way. I thought at first that it was just an old horses skull, but mu uncle showed me that it was a camels skull as it had turned to stone. I don't know what ever happened to it.

It is still an interesting area to explore. It is situated in the S/W corner of the San Joaquin Valley in California. My uncle was in charge of two huhe oil leases that were owned by the Ohio Oil Company and they built him a new home on one of the leases back in the early '50's. This area was the shoreline millions of years ago when the San Joaquin & Sacramento Valley's we an inland sea. Over the eons as the sea subsided the megladons died and their teeth are all that remains of them.

Ther was an old collector fellow that lived nearby and he had hundreds of megladon teeth in his collection, many of them were over 6" long. He was the man who showed me how and where to find them. As a kid, I probably traded them off for marbles or something over the years. It was a great area to grow up in and I spent nearly every summer hiking the hills hunting rabbits, chukar and tons of Valley Quail. My aunt would cook up everything I brought back to the house..........well, except for a big badger I shout when I was about 10. I figured meat was meat, but she said NO!

Sometimes in the mornings I'd have one of the "roust-abouts" (oil workers) drop me off 5-6 miles from the house and I'd hunt my way back home.

It was like being in Africa on Safari when you have a back pack full of jerky, a few apples, a canteen full of water, pockets full of .22 ammo and the brand new Wichester Model 62 pump .22 rifle that my dad bought me to replace my old worn out .22 single shot. Life don't get any better than that.

Have fun collecting!

Dave
 
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