Big Brook Shenanigans

[Skidush]

Gmornin yall,

 

I recently took a trip to Big Brook in New Jersey with my girlfriend, and we returned with a few items. There were not as many shark teeth as we expected to find, but some interesting fossil and fossil-like material nonetheless.

 

Shark Teeth:

The one's on the left are from my girlfriend. She beat the snarge out of me this time. This will Not occur again.

 

Bony Fish Material:

 

The only one I found was the large vert. My girlfriend whispers to the fish and I am beginning to feel jealous of the fish.

 

Belemnites:

I guess she speaks to squid too. These are all hers.

 

Here begins a lot of material that we couldn't quite identify, but looked organic in origin. Any help identifying them would be greatly appreciated, although I may have to make a separate post in the fossil ID part of the forum for that.

 

Potential Jaw:

This one is also hers.

 

Ammonite-like and Tooth-like Object:

 

Medium-sized Bone-like Rock:

These are probably mostly concretions or iron, but any hope that something is in here is worth exploring. Same goes for the unidentified material below.

 

Small-sized Bone-like Rock:

Something better be in here or else I'll turn to the creationists for explanation.

 

Larger Unidentified Questionable Objects:

Mosasaur for sure.

 

Potential Coprolite:

Big Poo Moment.

 

Lastly, here are some pictures taken using a microscope, just for fun:

These photos were taken by my girlfriend at her job. She is a productive member of society that uses her paid time productively.

 

- Skidush

[snakebite6769]

Some of the pieces you asked about are actually further fragments of a crab or other crustacean. directly right of the quarter in the Medium sized bone like rock, and above right in Small sized Bone like rock. They go behind the claw or under the belly where its legs would come out. Cool haul. Only things I found there other than belemnites was shark teeth and one small metatarsal. Thanks for sharing

[Fossildude19]

That's A LOT of images for one post.

Hard to single things out, without any numbers or letters to differentiate between items. 

 

Try posting individual images, or number your multiple specimen images, so we can address each item.

 

I see a lot of concretions/ironstone mixed in with obvious shark teeth and crustacean/ghost shrimp parts.

Your "Large questionable objects" look like concretions to me.

[Skidush]

4 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

That's A LOT of images for one post.

Hard to single things out, without any numbers or letters to differentiate between items. 

 

Try posting individual images, or number your multiple specimen images, so we can address each item.

 

I see a lot of concretions/ironstone mixed in with obvious shark teeth and crustacean/ghost shrimp parts.

Sorry to ask this of you, is there specific pieces that struck you as shrimp/crustacean asides from the ones snakebite astutely pointed out?

 

And thanks for the tip, I will keep that in mind for future posts.

[Fossildude19]