Notidanodon Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 What a great day for a fossil hunt! nice walk down along the cliffs, and some stunning football pitches steps down the cliffs they get steep! immediately when I got down I started looking through the glauconitic chalk, towards the base of the chalk it’s full of phosphatic fossils and occasionally my target of shark teeth. I believe it’s called the west melbury marly chalk. I found quite a few small ammonites and gastropods and a shark tooth but all fragmented. Here’s the tooth! nice views 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 I worked my way along the beach following this member onto the foreshore but didn’t get too much for my efforts and back pain! So I started peeling apart laminated chalk in this area (brachiopod in sight) found a few micro teeth and lots of fish scales. I’ll photograph them with the rest of my finds. kept walking along and found this tooth, the forum seems to have reduced the resolution but its near the centre. Spotted this cretalamna too! nice Ammonite too This is how you normally find ammonites a view of an unusual chalk formation, found a nautilus here! The resolution is gone again but big tooth here! Schloenbachia in a block 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 Then found a dream p.decurrens, here’s the extraction another tooth! large papouzia? and ended with a nice sunset 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Hi Will, nice report and pics! Please post more pics when you get everything cleaned up. Would like to see close-ups of the teeth. 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Lovely scenery! I just wonder how many footballs end up bouncing down the cliffs 1 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikrogeophagus Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Nice Ptychodus! That pitch looks fun to play on until the winning team punts the ball off the cliff to waste time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSCHNELLE Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Nice to be by the breezy shoreline. Great stratigraphy on display! Nice to find a Ptychodus decurrens. I see that you have to work hard for every fossil you find. I should never take it for granted that I get to hunt mostly in the softer shale, marl, and mudstone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 (edited) 8 hours ago, Darktooth said: Hi Will, nice report and pics! Please post more pics when you get everything cleaned up. Would like to see close-ups of the teeth. Thanks Dave I’m on it! I am going to get the really small ones professionally prepped as I think they might be rare cat shark teeth Edited September 14 by Notidanodon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 7 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Lovely scenery! I just wonder how many footballs end up bouncing down the cliffs 3 hours ago, Mikrogeophagus said: Nice Ptychodus! That pitch looks fun to play on until the winning team punts the ball off the cliff to waste time I was thinking when I went there if the ball bounced back for a volley to me it would be a 50/50 if it went of the cliff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 14 Author Share Posted September 14 2 hours ago, LSCHNELLE said: Nice to be by the breezy shoreline. Great stratigraphy on display! Nice to find a Ptychodus decurrens. I see that you have to work hard for every fossil you find. I should never take it for granted that I get to hunt mostly in the softer shale, marl, and mudstone. For sure! They’re hard to find and then hard to get out, it’s tough but makes each one valuable to me! Although I wouldn’t mind some lower effort hunting my back hurts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 36 minutes ago, Notidanodon said: For sure! They’re hard to find and then hard to get out, it’s tough but makes each one valuable to me! Although I wouldn’t mind some lower effort hunting my back hurts You are too young to be complaining about back pain already! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Thanks for sharing! Nice Ptychodus!!! Coming from a midwest USA guy, I had no idea sunshine was possible in the UK!! PARTIALLY JOKING -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 10 hours ago, Darktooth said: You are too young to be complaining about back pain already! You would think so, luckily it’s just muscular not skeletal so I just need to do more stretches beforehand! I injured it playing football 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 5 hours ago, Jaybot said: Thanks for sharing! Nice Ptychodus!!! Coming from a midwest USA guy, I had no idea sunshine was possible in the UK!! PARTIALLY JOKING Haha yeah it comes in dribs and drabs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Looks like a fantastic trip 1 MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 Now onto some finds! Starting with the glauconitic chalk, not great I suspect there hasn’t been much erosion on it recently. 1. Brachiopods @Tidgy's Dad 2. nautilus fragments 3. sponges? 4. gastropods 5. shark teeth 6. some ammonites not sure on species 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 Now onto the grey chalk stuff! 1. Some ammonites, acanthoceras? 2. bivalves and brachiopods 3. an unusual amount of uncommon Echinoids not sure on species 4.Ammonite with fish remains attached 5. the nautilus again! 6. Echinoid material 7. fish remains 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted September 15 Author Share Posted September 15 Now onto my favourite the shark teeth 1. Cat shark need to prep for species 2. same again 3. cretalamna 4. paranomotodon 5. need to prep 6. cretalamna 7. need to prep 8. P.decurrens 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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