I found some ancient fossilized shark's teeth

[Zysoclaplem]

I drove over to the Weches Formation, which used to be the ocean floor a loooong time ago. It's about 10 minutes from my house. My SO and I walked around a tiny creek there and I happened upon 3 teeth. I'm not sure what kind of sharks inhabited that area and there is nothing about the Weches on Wikipedia. They are in the sediment and the rain must have washed them down into the tiny creek (about 1 foot wide).

This may not be interesting to you but I love stuff like this. Just knowing I have a prehistoric shark tooth makes me giddy.

Sorry for the bad picture. It was taken by a cellphone.

Shark Teeth

 

[ThePresence]

I think you should call the nearest university and speak to a professor who does this stuff professionally. If you found teeth chances are there is a bigger find there.

 

[Slacker]

Score!

But... TTIWWOP

 

[BabaBooey]

Originally posted by: Slacker
Score!

But... TTIWWOP

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: bababooey
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Slacker
Score!

But... TTIWWOP</end quote></div>

 

[effee]

Make sure you squeeze some dough from it before you tell them the location!

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I think you should call the nearest university and speak to a professor who does this stuff professionally. If you found teeth chances are there is a bigger find there.

It's widely known there are shark teeth, among bigger and better things there. Classes go out and dig all the time. Sometimes they find nothing, sometimes something. I find it funny that I found 3 in a 1 hour period.
One of them would be perfect for making a necklace, which I will do.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: Slacker
Score!

But... TTIWWOP

I don't have them with me :-(

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Sorry for the bad picture. It was taken by a cellphone.

Shark Teeth

 

[rudder]

I spent many hours during the summer looking for sharks teeth near the Potomac river in Southeastern Virgina. I have jars of smaller ones. The big 4-5 inch ones was were the money was at... I never did find one that big though.

All I can say is there must have been a hella number of sharks swimming around back then.

 

[Safeway]

Shark teeth are all over the place. Sharks have a bajillion teeth, and they fall out all the time. So of course, there are teeth everywhere.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I think you should call the nearest university and speak to a professor who does this stuff professionally. If you found teeth chances are there is a bigger find there.

Yeah, good idea. My dad found a fossilized mammoth skull down near Lough Neagh about 18 years ago. I think it's still on display in the museum now.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: Safeway
Shark teeth are all over the place. Sharks have a bajillion teeth, and they fall out all the time. So of course, there are teeth everywhere.

This is the first time I have ever found one not by the water. It's from when the ocean covered Texas. I'm not sure when that was but I suspect a million + years ago. But maybe just 100k years. Im not sure.
Either way it's pretty cool to me.

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Safeway
Shark teeth are all over the place. Sharks have a bajillion teeth, and they fall out all the time. So of course, there are teeth everywhere.</end quote></div>

This is the first time I have ever found one not by the water. It's from when the ocean covered Texas. I'm not sure when that was but I suspect a million + years ago. But maybe just 100k years. Im not sure.
Either way it's pretty cool to me.

You are in Texas? I didn't know that.

<- Austin

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: Safeway
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Safeway
Shark teeth are all over the place. Sharks have a bajillion teeth, and they fall out all the time. So of course, there are teeth everywhere.</end quote></div>

This is the first time I have ever found one not by the water. It's from when the ocean covered Texas. I'm not sure when that was but I suspect a million + years ago. But maybe just 100k years. Im not sure.
Either way it's pretty cool to me.</end quote></div>

You are in Texas? I didn't know that.

<- Austin

You are 3-4 hours south of me. I'm in Tyler.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Safeway
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Safeway
Shark teeth are all over the place. Sharks have a bajillion teeth, and they fall out all the time. So of course, there are teeth everywhere.</end quote></div>

This is the first time I have ever found one not by the water. It's from when the ocean covered Texas. I'm not sure when that was but I suspect a million + years ago. But maybe just 100k years. Im not sure.
Either way it's pretty cool to me.</end quote></div>

You are in Texas? I didn't know that.

<- Austin</end quote></div>

You are 3-4 hours south of me. I'm in Tyler.

bow chicka wow wow? :laugh:

 

[antillean]

Part of Texas was underwater during the cretaceous, which was 144 to 65 million years ago. Your teefs are a lot older than 100k or 1 million years!!

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
I drove over to the Weches Formation, which used to be the ocean floor a loooong time ago. It's about 10 minutes from my house. My SO and I walked around a tiny creek there and I happened upon 3 teeth. I'm not sure what kind of sharks inhabited that area and there is nothing about the Weches on Wikipedia. They are in the sediment and the rain must have washed them down into the tiny creek (about 1 foot wide).

This may not be interesting to you but I love stuff like this. Just knowing I have a prehistoric shark tooth makes me giddy.

Sorry for the bad picture. It was taken by a cellphone.

Shark Teeth

..but wait. this can't be. this suggests the earth is in a constant state of change. you contradict all eco-theism human induced dogma.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Originally posted by: antillean
Part of Texas was underwater during the cretaceous, which was 144 to 65 million years ago. Your teefs are a lot older than 100k or 1 million years!!

Wowwy

 

[ViviTheMage]

get them checked out and see if they can guess there real age at the museum/unni.

 

[jdini76]

As a kid I would look for shark's teeth fossils in Myrtle Beach, SC. It was fun!

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: antillean
Part of Texas was underwater during the cretaceous, which was 144 to 65 million years ago. Your teefs are a lot older than 100k or 1 million years!!</end quote></div>

Wowwy

Sharks have been around for a long time, probably one of the oldest species out there. They remain little changed. Ancient creatures they are.

 

[edro]

Venice Beach near Fort Myers, FL supposedly has the world's largest supply of fossilized sharks teeth. When I went there a few months back, I couldn't find anything. There were 3-4 other guys "panning" for teeth with metal mesh baskets on the end of a long metal pole. All I had was a spaghetti strainer.

After I searched for a few hours, I went to the food counter to get some grub. They had a big basket full of ones found there for like $5 per bag of 25. They also had the larger ones (1-3") for like $15-25 each.

Venice, Florida