MGS Fossil Gallery 2009
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Submitted by Ron Coleman: Below is an awesom 3.5" C. Megalodon that Ron found this fall.
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below is my best find of 2009, a 3.5" C. chubutensis.
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below are a couple pics of folks gathered around the auction table previewing the items to be auctioned off at our annual MGS auction.
From the Miocene of MD.
Below: from the Paleocene of MD
Below: Two stingray mouthplates still in clumps of matrix...
Below: The rayplate below is the one on the right in the above pic.
Below: the rayplate below is still in matrix....
Below: slowly prepping the specimen to expose it without it breaking apart....
Submitted by Mark Bennett: Below are several nice fossil specimens that Mark had on display at our last club meeting.
4+" Otodus on right in the pic below.
Below: Two Megs from....Cuba!
Below: nice assortment of fossils...something for everyone...
Look at the huge Mako's bleow: all over 3+"
Submitted by Tom Breen: Below are some really nice specimens that Tom has found from various palces within MD.
Below: Look at the Paleo's....
Below: Tom found this rare type of ecphora at Lee Creek last Spring...
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below are a couple pics of folks gathered around the auction table previewing the items to be auctioned off at our annual MGS auction.
Happy Birthday Dick Grier Sr. !!!
Submitted by Garrett Cooper: Below are some really nice specimens that Garrett has found diving.
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below are some finds from the shores of the Potomac River. It was neat seeing the fossils still insitu as well. Check out the Northern Ringneck snake as well.
Submitted by Ron Coleman: Below are several nice fossil specimens Ron collected along Calvert Cliffs.
Nice tigers (Galeocerdo contortus)
Cowsharks, a symphyseal hemi (bottom left), two makos (bottom middle 2 teeth)
2 nice hemi's
3 more hemi's and a mako (lower left)
2 nice upper hemi's
It's a hemi-fest!
Look at all the mako's
Contortus (top far left), and a upper cowshark para-symphyseal (top far right)
Some nice Mako's
Submitted by Dan Pierson: The fossils below were found by Dan and his son Dillon. during their trip to the Aurora Shark Week Festival.
Submitted by Mark Bennett: The specimen below is a huge Parotodus benedini: 3 3/16" and 1 1/2" thick!
Submitted by Jim Slingo: The specimen below is believed to be a carnivore tooth, possibly from a Peccary, but a postive ID is still needed.
Submitted by Gerald Elgert:
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Here's a group of Fish Otolith's collected at a Palaeocene site in MD.
Submitted by Jim Slingo: A nice Palaeocarcharodon orientalis - Pigmy Great White shark tooth.
Submitted by Tom Breen: Here's a couple of nice Otodus from the Palaeocene of Maryland.
Here's some other nice Miocene finds from Maryland as well: Look at the nice Squalodon molar!
Submitted by Gerald Elgert: Below are some pics from a recent MGS trip to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and Odessa Petrified Wood Site..
Below: Bryozoa
Below: Ghost Shrip claw
Below: John Wolf (left) showing some of his specimens.
Below: Mystery specimen (Luke Oman's)
Below: Micrabacia
Below: Nautilus
Below: Serpula specimen.
Submitted by Steven Ferguson: Look at the nice Meg Steven found!
Submitted by Mark Bennet: Below are some pics of some neat looking Mako's that Mark brought back from this years Tucson show. Where do you think these Mako's are from? Would you have guessed Morroco!
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Hit the beach recently and came upon the tooth below hiding amongst the clay boulders. Look under the larger clay boulder in the middle of the pic.
Here's a decent mako that got uncovered...
and then a nice hemipristis washed up on shore...
Submitted by Gerald Elgert: Jim Stedman brought back about a pound of “rejects” from the parking lot at the Aurora Museum. Gerald spent a couple of very pleasurable hours picking through just the teeth. Virtually all of the material is fossils.
Submitted by Jeff Swartz: The following were found along the Chesapeake by new MGS member Jeff Swartz and his daughter Emily. The meg was found by Emily and measures 3 3/4" on diagonal. This is there first year hunting sharks teeth and these are their biggest finds to date.
Submitted by Mark Bennet: Below are some really nice specimens:
Sevengill Cowshark (Notorynchus cepedianus) lower symphyseal tooth.
Megamouth (Megachasma pelagios) from Lee Creek
Pigmy White shark (Palaeocarcharodon orientalis) in situ...(rare)
Pigmy White shark (Palaeocarcharodon orientalis)
Squalodon (atlanticus?) molar...
Submitted by Daryl Serafin: Below are some of my recent finds near the end of 2008.
Croc tooth.
Assorted finds after a few days of sifting at the beach...
Some of the nicer finds...nice hemi's, sand tigers, and a decent Meg
Some decent palaeocene material...palaeocarchardon, otodus, croc, etc.
look at that nice small Meg trying to hide...
I came across this Meg upon a early storm ...
Submitted by Tom Breen: The upper cowshark tooth below came from Calvert Cliffs, and I think it's a Sevengill tooth. If anyone thinks it might be a hexanchus let me know..
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