Auriculatus Heartbreaker

[sixgill pete]

Well folks all of us in the househave been sitting around a day and a half after testing positive for this corona stuff. We all are fully vaccinated, booster included and are showing none to severely mild symptoms. Myself, I am showing no symptoms at all othe than mild head / body aches. But, we are all ok. 

Anyways, I had to get out for a bit so I drove the couple of miles to my private little Eocene quarry. Other than the normal assortment of teeth, sawfish verts and rostral teeth I found this heartbreaker of a ric.

 

 

 

Other than the broken root it is a gorgeous tooth. It measured 3.10 inches on my caliper. I sifted the dirt all around it hoping to find the broken root piece. But, oh well still a beautiful tooth.

 

Definately beat sitting around!

 

 

[connorp]

I hope you and your family all make a speedy recovery!

[Praefectus]

Darn. Well it is still a beautiful tooth. Hope you feel better soon.

[FossilDAWG]

There's definitely worse ways to self-isolate!  Hope you and your family all make a speedy and uneventful recovery.

 

That tooth may be a heartbreaker, but it's nicer than any ric I have ever found.

 

Don

[minnbuckeye]

Nice Tooth. Now you have an excuse to go back today, find the missing piece! Wish the family well. My daughter and I also tested positive and are on the last leg of isolation. we too are fully vaccinated and exhibited  only mild symptoms for 2 days. Loss of smell does however continue but is a good thing. Without smell, I eat less!!!!. Would not have wanted to experience the disease without being vaccinated! Look forward to pictures of the missing tooth! 

 

 Mike

[siteseer]

Don, I hope you and your family suffer no further symptoms and test negative very soon.  I'm glad your case is mild enough for you to move around.

 

I haven't had many chances to collect an Eocene exposure.  I collected with the Tampa Bay Fossil Club at a site for echinoids and other invertebrates though one person found a shark tooth - looked like what used to be called Carcharias koerti.

 

Anyway, like the other Don, I hadn't had much luck with Carcharocles of any kind other than partials found in the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed - until about 20 years ago when I was very fortunate to be in Florida and invited to tag along on a phosphate mine hunt just before the mines stopped letting people in.  I found a couple of nice small upper teeth and a larger lower with a small chunk out of one cutting edge.  I thought I found gold that day.  I was happy with the half a camel tooth and the antelope horn tine as well - almost unheard of kinds of specimens in California.  I'm still happy with the STH partials.  At least I found them myself. 

[Al Dente]

Good find. I like the pristine looking serrations.

[fossilhunter21]

Cool find!

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

-@fossilhunter21

[fossilselachian]

Defines a “heart breaker”.

[Plax]

That's no lag tooth!!

[sixgill pete]

On 1/7/2022 at 7:08 PM, connorp said:

I hope you and your family all make a speedy recovery!

Thanks Connor. We are all feeling better.

[sixgill pete]

On 1/7/2022 at 11:25 PM, FossilDAWG said:

There's definitely worse ways to self-isolate!  Hope you and your family all make a speedy and uneventful recovery.

 

That tooth may be a heartbreaker, but it's nicer than any ric I have ever found.

 

Don

 

Don  I hope your doing well. Hoping there will be will be a fossil festival this year. We're all doing better. This one would have been in my top 5 rics. As is, it's in the top 15

[sixgill pete]

On 1/7/2022 at 8:50 PM, Praefectus said:

Darn. Well it is still a beautiful tooth. Hope you feel better soon.

Thanks. 

[sixgill pete]

On 1/8/2022 at 9:09 AM, minnbuckeye said:

Nice Tooth. Now you have an excuse to go back today, find the missing piece! Wish the family well. My daughter and I also tested positive and are on the last leg of isolation. we too are fully vaccinated and exhibited  only mild symptoms for 2 days. Loss of smell does however continue but is a good thing. Without smell, I eat less!!!!. Would not have wanted to experience the disease without being vaccinated! Look forward to pictures of the missing tooth! 

 

 Mike

Thanks Mike. 

[sixgill pete]

On 1/9/2022 at 4:08 AM, siteseer said:

Don, I hope you and your family suffer no further symptoms and test negative very soon.  I'm glad your case is mild enough for you to move around.

 

I haven't had many chances to collect an Eocene exposure.  I collected with the Tampa Bay Fossil Club at a site for echinoids and other invertebrates though one person found a shark tooth - looked like what used to be called Carcharias koerti.

 

Anyway, like the other Don, I hadn't had much luck with Carcharocles of any kind other than partials found in the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed - until about 20 years ago when I was very fortunate to be in Florida and invited to tag along on a phosphate mine hunt just before the mines stopped letting people in.  I found a couple of nice small upper teeth and a larger lower with a small chunk out of one cutting edge.  I thought I found gold that day.  I was happy with the half a camel tooth and the antelope horn tine as well - almost unheard of kinds of specimens in California.  I'm still happy with the STH partials.  At least I found them myself. 

Thanks Jess. I'd I had my choice of only one Carcharocles to ever hunt for again, it would be auriculatus.

[sixgill pete]

On 1/9/2022 at 5:59 AM, Al Dente said:

Good find. I like the pristine looking serrations.

Thanks Eric. The serrations are good and sharp.

[sixgill pete]

On 1/9/2022 at 12:36 PM, fossilhunter21 said:

Cool find!

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

-@fossilhunter21

 

23 hours ago, fossilselachian said:

Defines a “heart breaker”.

 

Thanks guys!

[sixgill pete]

5 hours ago, Plax said:

That's no lag tooth!!

Definately not Don. 

[FossilDAWG]

4 minutes ago, sixgill pete said:

 

Don  I hope your doing well. Hoping there will be will be a fossil festival this year. We're all doing better. This one would have been in my top 5 rics. As is, it's in the top 15

I certainly do hope there will be a festival this year.  Unfortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it) with any luck I will be teaching a class in the Galapagos Islands on Memorial Day.  Nevertheless I hope to get up to your neck of the woods sometime before very long.

 

Don

[sixgill pete]

2 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

I certainly do hope there will be a festival this year.  Unfortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it) with any luck I will be teaching a class in the Galapagos Islands on Memorial Day.  Nevertheless I hope to get up to your neck of the woods sometime before very long.

 

Don

Very cool about the class Don. Hope that works out for you. If you get this way sometime soon, let me know. Would be nice to see you again, maybe get in a hunt. If it's on a Thursday or Friday maybe, we can get together with Don C and recreate the three Dons pic!

[FossilDAWG]

I would really like that!

 

Don

[sixgill pete]

 

 

 

[siteseer]

22 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

Thanks Jess. I'd I had my choice of only one Carcharocles to ever hunt for again, it would be auriculatus.

 

That one is a keep for sure.  Hopefully, you'll be able to make a display of several specimens in the future including something complete.

[siteseer]

22 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

I certainly do hope there will be a festival this year.  Unfortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it) with any luck I will be teaching a class in the Galapagos Islands on Memorial Day.  Nevertheless I hope to get up to your neck of the woods sometime before very long.

 

Don

 

Wow, I hope it works out for you to go.  It would be great to see those tortoises in the wild.

[sixgill pete]

On 1/11/2022 at 2:58 PM, siteseer said:

 

That one is a keep for sure.  Hopefully, you'll be able to make a display of several specimens in the future including something complete.

Jess  I'm hoping to find at least one complete one from this location. I do have quite a few completes ones from other locations, including one that is 3 15/16". Just shy of that magic 4" mark for ric's.