Hunting Shark Teeth in a Creek in Summerville

Its been a really long time since I had a good opportunity to hunt shark teeth in my favorite creek in Summerville. Steady rain on Friday washed all the leaves away and revealed a nice assortment of fossil shark teeth, including a handful of Carcharodon carcharias (modern great white), a really nice Retroflexus (mako), a large, beautifully Angustidens (oligocene giant great white)

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• fossil hunting
• summerville
• shark teeth
• shark tooth
• creek
• oligocene
• great white
• mako
• retroflexus
• angustidens
• Carcharodon carcharias

[wolfeh103]

What creek is this? Can you reccomend any good places to fossil hunt in South/North Carolina?

[blackriverfossils]

@wolfeh103 a good place to look for shark teeth is in the spoil piles outside the Aurora Fossil Museum in Aurora North Carolina. it comes from the PCS mine there in town and its loaded with teeth.

[MysticManiac7]

what state was this in

[blackriverfossils]

@MysticManiac7 in SC

[blackriverfossils]

nope, not an arrowhead. its just a pine cone.

[KoningStoma]

I found a tooth just like the one at 0:28. I was at a beach where the shark teeth wash up. I put a random scoop of sand in a colander and washed it away with some water and there it was. It looks identical.

[blackriverfossils]

that's a fossil tooth from a modern great white.

[chadsbeth1]

florida has a lot of nice places to sharktooth hunt.found a few big megalodon teeth.like to come to south carolina and look around one day.

[chadsbeth1]

you have a lot of great sharktooth videos. some of the best ive seen

[777dingo]

Is that a black arrowhead in the left corner at 0:17? Its kind of pointing in the direction of your shark tooth.

[arrowhead443]

I took a break from the forums but I'll be back in the spring

[medabotsoundwave]

hey, i go shark tooth hunting as well, where exactly in summerville is this creek?