Jaw with Teeth and More Mystery Fossils - North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

[DougM]

Hi all,

Thanks for stopping by! Last week I was on my yearly North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina beach trip. This year was great for fossils, we found well over 100 specimens. Because we found so much variety, I have a large number of fossils I'd love to have confirmation or help IDing. Some I have an idea on and others I have no clue. Any information on my finds would be greatly appreciated.

 

#1 Jaw and teeth, but to what?

 

#2 - Fish Vert or tooth?

 

#3 Are either of these Coprolites? The first example has fossil sand stars or similar within. Both are just over an inch long.

 

#4 Fish tooth or crab claw tip?

 

#5 Skull plate?

 

#6 Part of fish or rodent skull? About 1/2 Inch long.

 

#7 Sea Robin skull fragment?

 

#8 Sea robin or other fish?

 

#9 Similar to the above?

 

#10 Burrfish or similar mouth plate?

 

#11 Is this a small hastalis tooth?

 

#12 Is this part of Requiem group?

 

#13 Dusky shark or something else?

 

#14 Fish tooth?

 

#15 Similar to #5. Skull plate?

 

#16 Shells? Sea urchin spines? Fish Spines? I knew what these were at one point but have forgotten.

 

#17 Turtle shell fragment or random bone?

 

#18 Fish crusher tooth?

 

#19 Fish crusher tooth?

 

#20 No clue?

 

#21 Tooth or shell fragment?

Edited Wednesday at 05:57 PM by DougM
Had an extra picture at the end that was not needed.

[Masonk]

Great finds, Doug! Looking at that first one, I'm, thinking a partial Hemipristis tooth?

 

4th item I would agree is a crab claw. 

[Fin Lover]

Wow, you found some interesting stuff!

2. Tooth

7. Some sort of fish, looks hyperostotic to me 

10. Yes 

11. Yes

12. Yes

18. Dasyatid tooth?  

 

Edited Wednesday at 07:29 PM by Fin Lover

[DougM]

32 minutes ago, Fin Lover said:

Wow, you found some interesting stuff!

2. Tooth

7. Some sort of fish, looks hyperostotic to me 

10. Yes 

11. Yes

12. Yes

18. Dasyatid tooth?  

 

Thanks so much! I was thrilled with just how much variety we found!  Cant wait to see more answers to the rest!

[automech]

If #16 is hollow, check out "tusk shell". 

[DougM]

Just now, automech said:

If #16 is hollow, check out "tusk shell". 

Bingo, thats them! Thanks!

[automech]

You're welcome. I only know that because my son found one in the Potomac River last Saturday!

[Al Dente]

1- Hemipristis serra

2- fish tooth

3- concretions

4- Shrimp claw tip

5- not sure

6- not sure but it looks interesting 

7- probably sea robin

8, 9 not sure

10- burrfish

11- hastalis 

12- probably Carcharhinus 

13- Sphyrna mokarren? Nice

14- fish tooth

15- not sure

16- scaphopods 

17- turtle

18- Rhombodus 

19, 20- not sure

21- Hadrodus

[DougM]

8 minutes ago, Al Dente said:

Thanks so much for your input, super helpful!

 

1- Hemipristis serra Wow this must be so beat up! I cant identify it at all from pictures and ive seen a lot of Hemis. You're the second person so say that though.

2- fish tooth Sweet

3- concretions The hunt continues, seems as though there are fossils embedded in the concretion.

4- Shrimp claw tip Makes sense!

5- not sure

6- not sure but it looks interesting Right?!

7- probably sea robin

8, 9 not sure

10- burrfish

11- hastalis sweet, happy wtih that.

12- probably Carcharhinus 

13- Sphyrna mokarren? Nice Wow! From what I read, thats a rare find!

14- fish tooth Its creepy, looks human ahah!

15- not sure

16- scaphopods 

17- turtle yay, i had a feeling when i picked it up

18- Rhombodus wow, thats awesome.

19, 20- not sure

21- Hadrodus Another weird one!

 

[Coco]

14 looks like Sparus fish tooth.

 

Coco

[DougM]

15 hours ago, Coco said:

14 looks like Sparus fish tooth.

 

Coco

Hmm I couldn’t find anything similar when I googled it. It’s such a creepy looking tooth, looks like a lower human tooth 🤣 obviously not a human tooth though.

[Coco]

I was wrong, I was wrong, it’s Diplodus.

 

Coco

[patelinho7]

If you’re having trouble making out the Hemi, take a look at lower hemi teeth. You can see the root and crown shape matches the lower teeth, and the enamel is almost totally stripped off.

[Sebassie]

20 looks like a fragment of a sturgeon osteoderm to me

[Frightmares]

Wow, that's some really nice stuff! 13 looks like it may be a Great Hammerhead

[cck]

9 and 20 are sturgeon.. 17 is part of a fish operculum

[cck]

On second thought, turtle is better for 17

[DougM]

20 hours ago, Coco said:

I was wrong, I was wrong, it’s Diplodus.

 

Coco

Bingo, there’s the human teeth! Thanks (: 

 

7 minutes ago, cck said:

On second thought, turtle is better for 17

totally agree! 
 

12 minutes ago, cck said:

9 and 20 are sturgeon.. 17 is part of a fish operculum

wow sturgeon, this is awesome! 
 

3 hours ago, Sebassie said:

20 looks like a fragment of a sturgeon osteoderm to me

thank you 😁

 

12 hours ago, patelinho7 said:

If you’re having trouble making out the Hemi, take a look at lower hemi teeth. You can see the root and crown shape matches the lower teeth, and the enamel is almost totally stripped off.

thank you! That is definitely the worst condition tooth I’ve found haha! Besides shards and things like that. 

[hemipristis]

#2 wrasse, drum, or similar fish pharyngeal tooth

#5 porcupinefsh biting plate

#7 tilly bone?

#9 gar scale?

#12 likely Carcharhinus plumbeus, sandbar shark

#13 as others have noted, Sphyrna mokarran.  Nice

 

[FossilizedDistraction]

You found a lot of fantastic stuff in just 1 week at North Myrtle Beach, SC.

I hunt that same area, usually in front of the Maritime, just south of Cherry Grove. 
 

I’m trying not to overlap too much with what’s already been identified:
 

#5 Part of a fish neurocranium

#6 Part of a  neurocranium, I suspect fish

 

#7 Hyperostotic fish neurocranium. I think there is a good chance that this is a partial “Emmon’s fish tooth.” These neurocraniums are brittle and part of the exterior surface could have broken off to expose the foramina.

#10 Chilomycterus sp. mouth plate (It’s a genus of Burrfish)

 

#15 Posterior part of a sea robin neurocranium, see link below:

 

https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/24603-searobin-skull-plates/

 

#19 Part of a fish neurocranium. I have specimens like this that clearly show the markings of a sea Robin neurocranium. I think this may represent a central section of the posterior part of a sea robin neurocranium.