Submitted by Daryl Serafin: ID help needed here. I found the tooth pictured below while sifting some freshly fallen zone 10 material along Calvert Cliffs. I showed it to a few people at our recent club meeting, but couldn't come up with a general consensus as to what it was. One person thought it looked a lot like a deer tooth. It is clearly some sort of mammal tooth, and it is "un-erupted", meaning it was below the gumline when the animal died. Email me if you think you know what it is.

Submitted by Dave Oeffinger: Check out the various fossils Dave found on his various trips to Calvert Cliffs.

Submitted by Nick Rose: Check out the nice teeth Nick dug up in SC. Look at the cool colors in some of those teeth!

Submitted by Glenn Roche: Check out the nice teeth Annie's husband found (top two makos, bottom two snaggletooth)- her Meg below is nicer! ha ha!

Submitted by Annie Roche: Check out the awesome Meg that Annie found just south of Randles Cliffs, MD.

Submitted by Steve Ballwanz: Below are some nice images of fossils sent in by Steve. Nice finds!!

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: With the upcoming Lee Creek season I thought I would post a collage of some of my nicer specimens. The cowshark teeth are my favorite.

Submitted by Brady Hamilton, Christine Eddy, & Jason Osborne: Brady (our club president) and Christine bumped into Jason while collecting down along the Potomac River back on July 15th. They came across a giant spider and snapped some pics. While I was prepping these pics to post here, my wife walked by and saw the picture of Brady holding the spider on the stick and said "is that guy crazy?" (she hates spiders). The first three pics are courtesy of Christine, the fourth is from Jason. I originally thought the spider might be a large Wolf spider, but Brady's coworker (Steven J. Steimel, amateur arachnologist) ID'd it as a "Fishing Spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus). I looked it up on the web and he's correct! Look at the last group of pics below from a website I found - it looks like the exact same spider - good call Steven! Click on the link below to learn more about the interesting creature. The website says to look for three "W-shaped" marks on its abdomen, and sure enough, this spider has them - look at Jason's picture, they show up real well. Brady estimates the size of their spider to have been around 5 inches long!

click here for more info: http://www.uark.edu/depts/entomolo/museum/dolomede.html

Below are pictures of a Fishing Spider I found on the web:
click here for more info: http://www.uark.edu/depts/entomolo/museum/dolomede.html

 

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Submitted by David & Miriam Barrow: Here are some examples of David and Miriam's nicer finds from their Calvert Cliff's collection:

Submitted by Nick Rose: Nick's most recent finds from NJ:

and Calvert Cliffs:

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: I found the awesome Cowshark lower symphyseal a while back.

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: I found the below 4.5" long section of stingray barb along Calvert Cliffs. I bet it would have been almost 8" long if it were complete!

Submitted by newcomer Nick Rose: Below are some pics of teeth and things from his recent trip to NJ.

Below are some fossils Nick found along Calvert Cliffs, MD.

...and from Soutch Carolina ...

Submitted by Jason Osborne: Below are some pics of teeth and things from Jason's collection:

For starters, check out the wicked split-double tip Otodus from Morroco...

...an awesome Meg from Chili...

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below are some pics of teeth and things from my collection:

Submitted by Don Miller: Check out the quite rare specimens below from Don's collection:

Zygorhiza kochii (Archeocete toothed whale) from the Eocene of Florida

Cheetah femur bone:

Submitted by Jason Osborn: Here's a few more pics from Jason's collection:

A 5" gem from Aurora

Jason's daughters searching through some spoil pile material:

Jason's daughter's with huge Mako Jaw:

Huge Whale Vert

Meg from Virginia

Awesome Meg's from Bone Valley formation in Florida

Submitted by JohnAdams: Here's a few more pics from John's collection:

Submitted by Scott & Lori Kusluch: Here's Scott's report: " These are some of the best finds on Green Mill Run on March 11, 2006. It was an awesome day and I had a blast. Spent 10 hours on the creek and found some of the largest teeth that I have ever found. I'm not sure of the exact species of all of them yet but I found over 1,000 teeth including frags and halves."

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: This is the nicest lower cowshark symphyseal I have ever found

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Submitted by John Adams: Below are a few images of some nice fossils that John found on his recent trip to Lee Creek.

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This guy wanted the teeth before they became fossilized...

Submitted by John Adams: Below are a few images of teeth that John has collected over the years along Calvert Cliffs, MD. The first two are of Meg's & Mako's etc, and the third pic is of a very uncommon Great White vertebra.

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Submitted by Jason Osbourne: Below is a picture of a small Parotodus benedini that Jason found a while back along Calvert Cliffs, MD.

Submitted by Jason Osbourne: Below are several images from Jason's recent trip to Lee Creek with his wife.

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: My first ever Parotodus benedini, along with some pics of the other stuff I found at Lee Creek.

Submitted by Marshall Drecchio: Marshall sent in some pics to show what he's been up to lately. Click on the Image links to see full size pics of some of the other images.

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Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below is an image of a really nice upper cowshark tooth that I found down along Calvert Cliffs some time ago. I had been sifting for a while, several 5 gallon buckets worth of material in fact, and then hit "pay dirt" on my "last bucket". This tooth was in my screen. I can't tell you how many times I've said "just one more bucket", only to repeat it about 10 more times. However, this time it really was my last bucket because I was tired and sore. It paid off! The second image is of another upper cowshark tooth that I found about a week later - same position tooth, but from the opposite side of the jaw. Now I have an upper left and right of this position!

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Submitted by Daryl Serafin: I decided to pull out some teeth and scan them for the website. My favorite one is the large porpoise tooth. I've only got three like this one in over 8 years of collecting. If anyone knows what species this belongs to let me know.

Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below are a couple images of two small teeth I found a while back and I finally got around to scanning and processing the images. Both teeth are in good condition, and the houndshark tooth has some nice colors.