Fossil hunting adventure: the mystery tooth thing, mummified fish and a cool crab
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2021
- I head off to an area I haven't been to in ages. It's a big walk but it was a beautiful day so I decided to spend the afternoon getting some kilometers (or miles) in.
It turned out to be a productive day with a bit of everything and a mystery to solve.
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It's a leather jacket. They are just so cute when you see them in the water whilst scuba diving. They are really curious and they'll swim close and have a look at you. They look hilarious with their little pointed mouths which are set in a permanent WTF moment and their cute little fins are just fanning like crazy. I simply adore the little buggers!
Tasty too.
could also be a triggerfish, which is closely related to a leatherjacket. the fin is not venomous and harmless though
I dont think most folks know how long it takes to prep a fossil. I love that you show this. A dino skeleton can take many years to prep. It can be weeks on up to decades or more. FACTS Post your favorite Dino for me. I love Quetzal's.
Looks like a trigger fish but its actually a file fish and their skin was used and dried by ancient sailors to actually sand and file down wood and metal on the wooden ships.
Ooooh, that's some good trivia! Thanks Jason!
@@MamlamboFossils another fact is that file fish have one dorsal spike and trigger fish have 3. Both belong in the same family of fish and both have scale armor that acts like sandpaper when dried.
Urchin spine or fish barb...must have been good at jigsaw puzzles! 😁🇨🇦♥️🇨🇦
I was thinking fish barb as well!
Mamlambo finds a crab fossil, all is right with the world again!
And such a random one too!
That first crab you found. I would be really interested to see what species it is especially becouse it came from a place you have not found many crabs before and see if it is a new crab to the collection or a crab you already have. And keep us updated about that tooth?….Spine ?… thing 😅
Sounds good! Hopefully it is something new and interesting!
Sounds great! ❄️🌲❄️☃️❄️♥️🦀♥️ Can we see the spider crab again? 🕷️ Those llama or alpaca? New Zealand?
Ermagerd, the alpacas and gorgeous vista!!!
I wish I had your knowledge to do the same videos in my country. 😕I love the sea and the sand and everything near the sea. I really love your videos and how kind and sweet a person you are. With all due respect🙏 May God always keep you and your family in good health. Happy Holidays and have a Merry Christmas 🎄🙏🌹
The whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth!
Unrelated, but when you said "new tricks" it crossed a wire in my head. So, a suggestion, get an UV light flashlight and if it so happens that you're stuck at night on the beach, returning, flash it around the rocks. I mean, chances are nothing will pop out, but in some places of this world, some rocks are going to react to UV light and really light up a spectacle. I've managed to find some in the West of US and some in the Mediterranean.
Good idea! I'll give that a try!
Great hunt. Nice to have an unusual find in a place that does't normally support their surroundings. It was nice of you to give away the crab. I'm sure a lot of valuable info went with it. It's what keeps other fossil hunters like myself , interested for longer by the inspiration to teach. The parrot fish was also a very cool find. I'm glad you shared that with us . Looking forward to the next one. Happy hunting
Another fun trip to the beach! I'm glad you found some good stuff. Keep the goodness coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒ Smiles all around😎
Thanks! It's always good going down to the beach!
Hi Mamlambo, thank you for the nice video. Maybe it is an urchin spine ?
It could be! Thanks for that clue, I'll look into it
Sea urchin spine! It looks just like a lot of the ones I've found here in our shale deposits. Very neat
Thanks mate! I appreciate the ID!
@@MamlamboFossils Great eyes to see that tiny thing! If it's flat it might be a tiny string ray barb. My son has a few in his collection.
Another great walk on the beach... truly miss those times. Also think it's a sea urchin spine...been a long time since harvesting those in Sicily 👍
Thanks for the info!
I agree I think it’s a sea urchin spine
Another round of cool stuff
7:58 pretty, pretty country! :)
It really is!
Awesome finds!. The welk like shell is awesome! The tooth is fascinating too.
Fab landscape and llama bonus too!
Took me like a year realice that you said hello everyone and not hello Ron xD great channel. Grear work. Thank you
The shell looks like a modern tulip shell. It's hard to tell if it's a true tulip or a banded tulip because it has no color. I don't know what the scientific name is, but tulips are found all over the world. Interesting!
Sketchiest road I've ever driven in NZ was on the way to Akaroa. I wanted to go along the North coast road via Pigeon Bay then cut across the middle of the peninsula but my sat nav was determined to steer me away from Summit Road, it kept telling me to turn around. I realised why when I got there, a single track path going along the side of an almost mountain with no passing or turning places. Luckily I didn't meet anyone coming the other way and I was in a rental car so didn't care about driving several miles in 2nd gear. I filmed a short section of it and put it up on here (not sub fishing, my channel is mostly so friends and family can see what I'm doing while on holiday).
That area's road are pretty dodgy, add a bit of ice into and it's downright dangerous!
the tiny thing is a stingray barb,i have a couple of them too.
great vid as always :-)
Thanks Tom! Appreciate the ID!
You always find the greatest things, love them. Awaiting your next video. Thank you
Glad you like them!
FYI, that was a sea lion, not a seal. Sea lions have visible ear-flaps and use their front flippers to walk.
Leatherjacket, buy them in fish shops as creamfish
I didn't know that! Thanks!!
another great walk-along! I keep learning new things every video!
Glad you enjoyed it! I keep learning new things as well :)
too me, that tiny pointy thingy you removed from the silt stone looks more like a spin from a fish or a sea Urchin.
Fish spine thank you for your videos!!
My pleasure Bob!
Such a beautiful place! Thank you for sharing!
It really is!
The shell that you found,in the UK,are known as Whelks!
Thanks!
The shell is a type of Fasciolaria and could the tooth thing be an Urchin spine?
Thanks so much for both IDs, they sound correct!
Great hunt again! And that tooth/spine thing kind of looks like a sting ray barb...
It does look rather spiney rather than toothy! Hahahaha
The whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth.
cant wait for the crab prep
Busy with another prep at the moment :)
realy interesting like watching ur clips
Your videos always give me the fossil hunting itch haha
Hahaha I know what you mean, I feel the same when I watch other people fossil hunting on UA-cam!
Mud fossils channel The Mud Fossil Process creates perfectly preserved
Another great upload👍
Thank you! Cheers!
I wish I lived in a place where I could just walk out and find fossils
I do live in a beautiful place!
@@MamlamboFossils 7:45 is like something out of a dream. I can most assuredly see why the Tolkien movies were filmed in NZ.
I believe the tooth you found is actually a baby stingray tail barb
Thanks Josh!
Spike looks like a tiny stingray barb especially with the flattened area at the back where it would attach
Love it ❤👍
Thanks!
A barb from a stingray maybe? Great channel thanks for posting 👍
Ray spine.
Thanks!
Enjoyed seeing shell find & prep. Shells are mostly what l find & collect up here in waikato nth island. Triassic to recent :)
Looks like a stingray barb? pretty cool my friend
You should try the shell under blacklight! The ones in Florida will glow with patterns.
Good idea!!
11:35
Baby Stingray Barb
The "parrotfish" you found is actually a triggerfish (Balistidae) ;)
I find it amazing how like the living creatures themselves even the fossil has a lifespan, just kind of proof that absolutely nothing lasts forever
Interesting I would like to know more about the crab hopefully you will prep it soon two thumbs up thank you
Hopefully its a different species!
Have you ever though to fill the empty or missing parts of the crabs with resin or concrete? Then do the reveal work as per usual. Hey great vid btw. 🧡👊🏻🇨🇦
I normally fill the hollow bits with CA glue, it seems to work well and strengthens the fossil.
Imagine seeing a full fossil penguin almost completely revealed but there’s a huge mail seal right next to it! 🤣
I'd accept that challenge 😄
That fish is a leather jacket skins like leather tough as
Thanks mate!!
Looks like a large banded tulip shell. (Or true tulip shell), and could that be a sea urchin spike?
What are those trees up on the hill with the orange leaves?
I thot you were having Spring down there.
We're the ones having Fall and Winter up here in California.
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I have no idea, sorry! Yeah, we're in summer this side so not sure why they were orange.
@@MamlamboFossils
Interesting...
Sweet little shell!
I'm wondering if the little "shark tooth" might actually be a very small Orthoceras?
This is a much younger formation than Orthoceras, they were around 200 million years ago, this is about 12. But they do look similar!
Do you use anything like chalk to help you mark where on these walls there's teeth and things you want to later dig out? Haha I feel like I'd lose them as soon as I'd find them.
Also, what did you say to look out for before going near the wall? Overhangs?
the little spiky thing a sponge needle?
The tooth is a tiny sting ray barb.
Now I would've cut the spine & possibly the teeth off that fish. 😂 Loved the shell. 😍 I collect fossilized shells. Is that an Urchin or Puffer spine tip? Another great day on the beach with you. 👍❤️ Are those your Alpacas/Llamas?
Stingray stinger maybe
Could the tiny item be the very tip of a stingray bard?
A barb or spine I think!
Might be a ray spine? (Baby sized…)
Is it a tiny belemnite?
It could be a sea urchin spine?
I think it's a spine as well rather than a tooth
Stingray spine
a teeny baby belemnite? You must have 20/20 vision to have spotted that
urchin spike?
Hi the tooth thing, prob. a tooth from sawfish .
Thanks so much! It could also be from a sea urchin as some people have said.
Did you ever find out what the "tooth" is, it looks like an urchin spine to me
Odd to see a carcass of a fish like that...aren't there Crabs there now, or maybe birds that are scavengers?
I'm thinking fish spine
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Thanks!
It is a trigger fish
Thanks Mohamed!
That was a trigger fish
It looks like a tiny sting ray spine
Sting ray barb
That is a trigger fish
Thanks! I should have know that as well!
Hallo!
Trigger Fish..
Thanks for that ID!
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I'm going to guess a fish spine.. or an echinoid spine
Im thinking a type of spine as well 😀
@@MamlamboFossils if it appears more crystalline like calcite in the cross section it's likely an echinoid, but if it appears to have micro holes or be at all porous then fish spine would be more likely. Its difficult to tell just from looking at a video though when it's something so small.
That is a triggerfish
Thanks Aaron!
Triggerfish.
PM me with your address and I'll send you a few fossils from Texas and a Green River fossil from my trip to Wyoming.
Thanks John, I just saw your message on Facebook and replied
I live just outside of Key West Florida, USA ...
I have lots of shells and some fossils...
Would you be interested in trading??
I'll send you something
You send me something ????
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