Best fossil hunt yet!!! Vertabra...

[Stone]

I decided to got to the Coon Creek formation in Blue Springs, MS. today after working some overtime. It's been raining a lot here lately and the area was mud city. My boot weighed 10 lbs caked in mud but I didn't mind it at all.

I was only there for about 3 hours but man was it worth every minute. I found a bunch of crabs pieces, coral, sharks teeth, a few lobster tails and the vertebra. Not sure what the vertebra is but my guess is it's the vertebra of a Mosasuar. Anyone else have a guess? I'll be cleaning them tomorrow and I'll add so more picture of everything after I'm done.

Thanks for looking.

 

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[GatorBoy]

Nice hunt probably some more stuff to see once you get that all cleaned up.... I have no idea of the age of the formation your hunting if I pulled that vertebrae up here I would think camel.

 

[Stone]

The Coon Creek Formation is from the late Cretaceous, about 70 million years old.

 

[GatorBoy]

Wow.. so what kind of shark tooth is that?

 

[Stone]

Wow.. so what kind of shark tooth is that?

I believe it's a tiger shark tooth.

 

[Harry Pristis]

The shark tooth appears to be Squalicorax sp.

That crab is very nice . . . want to trade it?

 

[Stone]

The shark tooth appears to be Squalicorax sp.

That crab is very nice . . . want to trade it?

I think you are right. Message me with what you have to trade.

 

[Age_old]

Very nice finds! I would say the vertebrae is mosasaur; it has the classic reptilian ball - and - socket joint.

 

[Twitch]

That crab is out of this world nice! I find fossils a lot because it's fun for me and the family but I don't know nearly as much about it as you guys. Is it normal (somewhat) to find a whole crab like that? If so I need some help because I absolutely have to find a place to find one. Very cool.

Thanks.

 

[Stone]

That crab is out of this world nice! I find fossils a lot because it's fun for me and the family but I don't know nearly as much about it as you guys. Is it normal (somewhat) to find a whole crab like that? If so I need some help because I absolutely have to find a place to find one. Very cool.

Thanks.

Thanks... In the location I hunt I mostly find just a bunch of pieces but sometimes I'll find some that are intact. I find so many crab pieces that I could glue them together and make a few whole crabs.