TEETH!

I'm not sure if these qualify as wildlife anymore! Fossil collecting is another of our hobbies and these are some of the Tertiary period teeth that we've found in NJ. They range in age from approximately 55 million to 35 million years old. The biggest tooth is just over 3".

Clear Skies,

Steve

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Steve Stonehill said:

I'm not sure if these qualify as wildlife anymore! Fossil collecting is another of our hobbies and these are some of the Tertiary period teeth that we've found in NJ. They range in age from approximately 55 million to 35 million years old. The biggest tooth is just over 3".

Steve

Steve,

Beautiful collection!

How do they exhibit such unique and varying colors? I don't know much about fossils and was originally taught that over time sediments surrounding a bone would seep into it and replace the biological material thereby transforming it into stone. I would assume a bone or tooth would then take on a more monotone color scheme. Some of the teeth in your collection look to have translucent points and opaque bases of differing color. Really cool and very interesting but I've obviously missed a thing or two in my science classes.

Jerry

Nice! Long, long, ago in a galaxy not too far away, we used to collect various fossilized shark and whale teeth in material dredged from the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. I guess they dredged the river and put all the sand in big piles.