Fossil tooth of an anicent sea monster.

[tinpan]

Hi all, Spent a week end down the coast visiting my sister-in -law. Southern coast of Victoria is not a real nice place to be in winter. Southern Ocean is quite good at given up some icy windy weather so sun baking and swimming was quite out of the question. LOL

Siter-in -law told us about a disused Quarry that local fossil hunters go too . Spent staurday afternoon searching around the base of the quarry walls for fossils. It was nice to try something different. Between 4 of us we found one fossil tooth. Still the weather got the better of us so we headed to the nearest open fire place. Yes the local pub (bar) . Don,t member much else ,except the hang -over. Might try this again some time.

tinpan i have no ideas on what this fossil came from.

 

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[stefen]

Size of coin?

 

[CRUSADER]

looks like a mega successful hunt to me, its on my wish list, maybe one day...

 

[tinpan]

Size of coin?

hi stefen the coin is a sixpence , about the same size as a Merc Dime

t.p

 

[Sofaman36]

Nice megalodon tooth.

 

[tinpan]

Nice megalodon tooth.

thank for the id , water off this coast line are the hunting grounds of the Great white shark. Dangerous Reef where scenes from the Jaws movie was filmed is about 200 miles west of this site.


tinpan

 

[ProPointer]

Cool!

 

[N.J.THer]

Nice Meg Tooth

I just ordered a book titled 'Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter' last week. My daughter enjoys looking for fossilize shark teeth so I ordered it for her. We go locally here in NJ but we have never gone looking for Megalodon teeth but I'm sure she would get a kick out of it.

NJ

 

[Skelly607]

I know what it came from,,,,,,,,,Something BIG!

 

[Kirk PA]

I suggest you take a dip in that body of water where that tooth was found.

Kirk

 

[detector dave]

like sharks tooth to me mabe wrong but nice find, i have never found a tooth like that befor.

 

[tinpan]

I suggest you take a dip in that body of water where that tooth was found.

Kirk

Yes Kirk About 12 species of man eating sharks in these waters. The local custom is tourists first. Always good to use Manners.


tinpan

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

You should read the novel called Meg by Steve Alten. I loved it and it will fill in some blanks for you. Good read.
Chris

 

[Irchr]

I have one very similar, found in Arizona, and I was told it was an ancient shark tooth. It is still sharp on the edges and yet it is petrified inside. Nice find.

 

[jeff of pa]

Nice Meg

 

[mainer]

Nice one. Would love to find one of those myself someday.

 

[mickk]

Nice tooth, not easy to find in vic, can find plenty on the banks of the Murray in places where the layers are exposed. Im trying to think what pub you were in, then I can work out the quarry! Some great pubs down there, know em all!

 

[tinpan]

Nice tooth, not easy to find in vic, can find plenty on the banks of the Murray in places where the layers are exposed. Im trying to think what pub you were in, then I can work out the quarry! Some great pubs down there, know em all!

Hi Mick heres another spot close to home for you. Beaumaris near Black Rock The cliffs there produce some nice fossil tram stops real close . I think my spot is bit far for you.

tinpan HH

 

[hishergarrett]

I do a good bit of scuba diving for such fossils as these and I am pretty sure that the tooth is a fossilized mako tooth and a nice one at that.

 

[mickk]

Tinny if the wind is in the right direction and I have a bit if a cold, I can spit on the beauie cliffs! Ive had a look but not a poke around. The best way is to snorkel in at low tide. I have seen ropes tied off and leading down the 50 or so yard cliff face from time to time, never been down that way myself. If you look at it through the binos, you can see the pockets of white shells etc in the red cliff face.

The best part about beaumaris, brighton is this, and its not widely known, so dont tell everyone.

The Beauie cliffs are part man made. Pre 1960s, all the local councils would back their carts up to the cliff edge and tip all the garbage over the edge. This behaviour extended the land by about 15 metres. So an area maybe 200 metres long and 15 metres wide is all garbage from the late 1800s to mid 1960s. Be a bloody bottle paradise. If you look at the area from the sea its easy to see a swathe that doesnt look right. From land its a bit harder, but if you think hard it comes to you. Would have to be the best man made tip in melbourne, be eating a cream sponge with a spoon.

The best part of this yarn is that no one has dug there. Ive only found one mention of it onthe net and that was a slow loading once sentence in an old PDF. If it wasnt for the bluestone wall, the whole lot would have been undercut by the sea and it would be awash with bottles etc. Its overgrown by couch grass and New Zealands greatest curse upon us, the coprosma bush. I suppose it has a 2 metre cover of sand on top of the whole shebang.