Seeing all those big bones Monday got me curious as to whether any more of the skeleton ever washed into the creek - the last 10 feet or so of tail were buried under considerable overburden (6' - 10') and we never had gone back and tried to dig them out. It was unseasonably cool this AM, so I took off with a former student of mine just to see if we could find anything. We found three tail vertebrae; two were in the straightaway directly downstream from the site; the other had washed around the corner. Also found a jawbone from a giant prehistoric fish. A very fun morning!!!
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Here is the first vertebrae in situ . . .
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I found this one about 100 feet downstream from the original site . . .
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And this one was about 50 feet away . . .
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Here are all three vertebrae side by side. The double indentions on the bottom of each one mark them as tail vertebrae. A V-shaped bone called the "chevron" fit underneath them.
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Here is a jaw section from a large Cretaceous fish, most likely Xiphactinus.
First good fossils I have found in ages!
very cool, my uncle use dtio take me to digs in England (roman usually) and looking for fossil teeth in the riverbed.
OK,how are you spottimg these?
I likely would have passed these by and just assumed they were rocks like any other.
I've collected fossils and artifacts since I was 12 years old. I've developed a real eye for them over the years!
Very cool Indy! You could re-assemble all those bones and have that thing on display in your living room :teddyr:
Quote from: indianasmith on June 26, 2014, 09:35:59 PM
I've collected fossils and artifacts since I was 12 years old. I've developed a real eye for them over the years!
From one fossil to another, mayhaps? :smile:
Quote from: indianasmith on June 26, 2014, 09:35:59 PM
I've collected fossils and artifacts since I was 12 years old. I've developed a real eye for them over the years!
I'll say you've developed an eye for fossils! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: