Great Quality Shark Teeth from Summerville

My son and I recently found some quality teeth when hunting a local Summerville creek after a heavy rain. He found his best ever desori mako right after the rain and i sifted out a superior angustidens tooth in matrix a few days later after the creek stopped flowing.

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• summerville
• creek
• desori
• mako
• angustidens
• tooth
• shark

[alamande]

I live in Hanahan SC and I've been wanting to get into fossil collecting. I really like the basket your son was carrying and he really knew his stuff when it came to different sharks teeth. When you go hunting what do you look for in areas that give you hints there might be fossils? Is it better to look for clay areas? Also, do you have to hunt near creeks and rivers or are there non-watery areas that you can find fossils? I think this is a great way to spend time with your family and 'unplug'.

[blackriverfossils]

@alamande i always look for gravel when I go fossil hunting. you want the smooth, water-worn kind. the fossils are always in that. The material that the fossils wash out of can be clay, sand, or anything in between. you don't necessarily have to look in watery areas to find fossils, but watery areas tend to be the lowest, and you have to find low-lying areas where the fossil bearing formations are exposed. this makes streams, rivers, ditches, dig sites, etc, ideal places to look.

[magicmagician123999]

if you order some shark teeth and fossils how to you know there real

[blackriverfossils]

@magicmagician123999 when you're first starting out its best to only buy from reputable dealers so you can be more sure of what you are buying.

[ilovemetaldetecting]

do you think florida was the same way?

[blackriverfossils]

@ilovemetaldetecting yes

[thesmarty1231]

Are you a christian?

[motomike10r]

that first shark tooth is nothing compared to mine.

[blackriverfossils]

@ilovemetaldetecting ultimately all the creeks are attached to the ocean but that's not how all the teeth got there. the lowcountry of SC was under the ocean many times over the past 50 million years. Sharks lived here then and they lost teeth. over time, they fossilized and the ocean receded. Erosion and excavation have created drainage areas that erode the geologic formations where the teeth fossilized. That's all there is to it.

[ilovemetaldetecting]

alright thank you. one more thing, are those creeks connected to the ocean, or did they just used to be many years ago?