I'm very fortunate to have awesome fossil hunting buddies. Individuals with like-minds who on a given notice will go hunt rocks with you or bring back fossils when you aren't unable to go hunting! I had to work the day they went to a creek in South Alabama to hunt fossils.
Not being able to go to that creek... of course I was bummed, but they brought the creek to me in a bucket! I'm all about the buckets of gravel from a creek setting, home sifting and then sorting that material... it's the next best thing than being there!
My schedule being as busy as it is, I did find time to sift that gravel and found several nice sized shark teeth that got caught in the 1/4" mesh consisting of Scapanorynchus (goblin shark), Squalicorax, (crow shark), fish teeth, Enchodus and Pycnodont.
Mid-size teeth that didn't get through my colander such as Scapanorynchus (goblin shark), Squalicorax, (crow shark), two tiny Ptychodus teeth, two Hybodont teeth, and Paranmotodon.
Above left picture is Ptychotrygon (sawfish and tiny rostral teeth), two conical fish teeth, or Mosasaur? Myledaphus pustulosus (ray teeth), Pseudocorax, fish vert, gastropod steinkern, fish teeth, Enchodus, Hadrodus priscus, and Pycnodont teeth.
Did another sift of what got through the colander, this time through a window screen mesh and got these tiny teeth in the right picture. Size comparison to a sewing needle. Scapanorynchus, Enchodus, Hadrodus priscus, Ptychotrygon and tiny fish vert?
Even when I didn't get to go to the creek my buddies brought the creek back to me and I really appreciated it since I'm totally addicted to microsifting gravel from the Cretaceous Period known as the time of the dinosaurs!
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