Meanwhile at the Cow Shark Spot
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- There's so much going on in my collecting world that there is a log jam. I collect far more often than I can post, so I stash stuff in boxes, bowls, cardboard flats, paper plates, buckets, bins, and the list goes on. All are waiting for their time to shine here on my channel. Unfortunately some hunts get pushed aside to make way for the glorious giant megalodon teeth we all know and love. The cow shark spot is one of those places. It has some of the most flawless quality teeth of any spot I collect, and its really the only place I can find cow shark teeth around here, thus the name. We just dont find a lot of big stuff there, but if you're a lover of all things sharky then this spot can be a real treat. It is a rich ecosystem of invertebrates, fish, marine mammals, and sharks and the finds are all across those categories. This is a mashup of several hunts to try to catch y'all up with what @ancientadventures and I have been finding there. Some we surface collected, some we dug, and some we sifted. We found great stuff in all of them, so if you like quality shark teeth, this video is for you!
Awesome Finds! I too love finding a good Cow Shark!
yall got some champs up there!
I love that big broken Meg, great finds, the cow shark tooth, all of your finds. I love all of your cometary on how they eat how they may have lived.
thank you I appreciate that!
Great hunt 👏👏 Thank you for sharing your video I do appreciate it. The beat up Angie almost looks transitional from the backside. Thanks again
thank you! we haven't found many nice angustidens at this spot. we'll keep trying!
Nice finds.
thanks!
NICE 🙂
thanks!
Awesome finds looks like you got one heck of a collection.
I'm a very lucky collector!
Your disaster looks like everyone I know who fossil hunts collection looks like. Good stuff organized and lots of overflow. The problem with finding nice stuff is it raises the bar. Your bad day is someone else's great day. Love the video. Thanks for posting.
its hard to be really organized and collect regularly. i try to keep it straight to show yall what I'm finding but I fall short. finding good stuff does raise the bar - nobody wants to see a video of finding nothing! I posted a video of that one time lol
Great video. I recently found my first cow shark tooth, only took me about 10 years 🤣 Totally worth the wait
congratulations! They are such cool teeth!
Cool finds bro
thanks man
hope your doing well, cool vid
thanks man! I hope you're doing well also.
Seems like you need to set up a sales site or a local show and purge some of your lesser finds. You da man!
i need to take some time and organize, but every time there is an opportunity for that I choose to go collect instead! Its a vicious yet beautiful cycle lol
@blackriverfossils I don't blame you. If I had spots like yours, I'd be out collecting too!
Awesome finds!!! Do you know the correlation between vertebrae size and the length of the shark? I know it depends on the position. Is it similar to 1 inch of tooth~ 10ft ft of length? Thank you!
that's a great question, there has to be a correlation but I don't know what it is. In my set of associated hemipristis, the largest vertebrae are almost 2 inches in diameter and the biggest tooth is around 1.25 inches.
How do you guys find more spots to go check out? I've grown up in CHS and miss doing this as a kid.
Also the cow sharks were INSANE never found one like that before
in the charleston area, just explore. if you're in a spot where water moves or there is dirt exposed there is a change of finding fossils. river banks, creeks, any hole in the ground all have potential.
@@shittysolver7909 thanks they're among my favorite teeth to find.
I wonder if u guys in SC have the same species of cowshark as us in the Netherlands/ Belgium, our species are Notorynchus primigenius and hexanchus griseus
that's a great question. nobody has ever done any research on this particular formation but it must be early pleistocene at oldest because I have found mastodon, tapir, and horse fossils in it. Since the cow sharks are pristine they are most likely pleistocene in age. I've been calling them N. primigenius because they match almost identically to those I found in the Lee Creek mine in Aurora NC which are identified as N. primigenius. I haven't found any hexanchus teeth out there yet but I'll keep looking!
@@blackriverfossils Wow what an unique Formation! Now for the whole mastodon tooth!
@@blackriverfossils and if u want i can try to look if they match N. Primigenius
@@matteomolenaar2755 its not whole, just a piece of enamel but its enough to say there is mastodon there.
@@matteomolenaar2755 i certainly welcome your opinion!