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| O4G , that is cool, were u hunting just for those or were u MD ing at the time ??
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If you were to review my profile you would see that I am an avid fossil collector.
I have been doing it all my life. I have been asked how I find out where to look
and all I can reply is that I just know.
I was searching a deposit in an area where I had never looked before.
I was aware that what I drove by appeared to be something worth investigating.
As it turned out I was right. The surface of the area was covered with fossil
debris "thick as fleas" most of which is nothing short of worthless.
I was searching the deposit in hopes of finding shark teeth, the Paw Paw is known
to produce some types of shark teeth known as Squalicorax and Cretolamna.
I did not find one single tooth! I became frustrated and was headed back
to my truck when I happen to spot the Urchin.
I could not wait to get home, to show my wife.
My wife knows a nice fossil when she sees one.
Well enough rambling, I will go back out there soon with a different set of eyes.
I was not wearing my glasses at the time. Maybe I will see a little more.
A lot of the specimens found in the Paw Paw deposits are very tiny.
This particular outcropping is one of many that stretches about 30 miles
North to South and surfaces in some obscure places.
This particular outcropping is where a housing project is going in.
That means that the place will not be available long.
The specimen you see is just as I found it. I did little more than rinse it under some water.
Out of all of this type, in my collection and other peoples collections,
I have only seen one specimen still embedded in matrix.
Out4gold and fossils too!
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