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Post by Fossilman on Mar 28, 2015 16:36:12 GMT -5
Question-what kind of dino bones (animal) are in the Cady Mountains in southern California! My buddy has been going down there and this time he brought back some dino bones and shark teeth..........Gave me some of all to play with too... If it's worth it,I might head down there and play in the sandbox too................ He figures they are from the 15000 year old stage,which would put them in the ice age "right"? which would be in the "Quaternary Period" or the "Pleistocene Epoch"..............11 thousand to present,than 11 thousand to 1.8 million years ago...
As for the shark teeth,they mostly come out of the "Miocene Epoch" at 5 million to 26 million years.... Plus some sharks are found in the "Devonian Period" too,placing them around 345 million to 395 million years ago..........
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Post by inyo on Mar 28, 2015 18:44:57 GMT -5
Question-what kind of dino bones (animal) are in the Cadi Mountains in southern California! My buddy has been going down there and this time he brought back some dino bones and shark teeth..........Gave me some of all to play with too... If it's worth it,I might head down there and play in the sandbox too................ He figures they are from the 15000 year old stage,which would put them in the ice age "right"? which would be in the "Quaternary Period" or the "Pleistocene Epoch"..............11 thousand to present,than 11 thousand to 1.8 million years ago... As for the shark teeth,they mostly come out of the "Miocene Epoch" at 5 million to 26 million years.... Plus some sharks are found in the "Devonian Period" too,placing them around 345 million to 395 million years ago.......... First, obviously, your buddy meant Cady Mountains (not "Cadi"). Not a few years ago, I actually visited the Cady Mountains. That's on California's Mojave Desert. Too, you were misinformed. No dinosaur bones or shark teeth can be found in California's Cady Mountains. A noted Miocene mammal-producing district occurs there, though; very famous localities among professional vertebrate paleontologists, by the way (an aside here: one would do well to read up on the rules and regulations regarding fossil collecting on America's public lands, particularly pertaining to the collection of vertebrate fossils). If your buddy found genuine paleontologic specimens in actual, proved, 15,000 year-old sedimentary deposits in that general area of the Mojave Desert, the fossils most definitely derived from unnamed sedimentary rock accumulations slightly younger than the regionally significant Pleistocene Manix Lake Beds, which stratigraphers and paleontologists alike place at approximately 450 to 18 thousand years old. See my web page on the Manix subject over at: Fossils From Pleistocene Lake Manix, California . Fossil remains recognized from the Manix Lake Beds include beaucoup mammals, mollusks (gastropods and pelecypods), ostracods (minute bi-valved crustaceans), birds, and freshwater fish (primarily the Mojave Tui Chub). Many of the mammals and birds recovered from the Manix Lake Beds also occur in the world-famous Pleistocene Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Mammals and birds found at your buddy's regional 15 thousand year-old stratigraphic level would invariably constitute similar, if not identical animals recognized from the slightly older Manix Lake Beds. And, oh yes--one more particular: Lots of shark teeth occur in many geologic time periods other than the Miocene Epoch. Talk to Texas folks about their plentiful Cretaceous and Eocene shark teeth specimens, for example.
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 28, 2015 20:12:36 GMT -5
Cady mountains,that was my mistake.....LOL They stayed in the Bakersfield area most of the time......I'll get some photos of the bone he brought back......
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Post by radio on Mar 28, 2015 20:39:44 GMT -5
Lots of fossils around Bakersfield. Anyone remember Sharktooth Hill? I always wanted to go there, but I heard no collecting has been allowed for several years now. Lots of Mollusks around the Coalinga area with many in concretions
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 23:11:29 GMT -5
Lots of fossils around Bakersfield. Anyone remember Sharktooth Hill? I always wanted to go there, but I heard no collecting has been allowed for several years now. Lots of Mollusks around the Coalinga area with many in concretions Sharktooth has fee digs all the time. They advertise online regularly. Google is your friend.
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 28, 2015 23:41:51 GMT -5
Sharktooth Hill,have you been there Scott?
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Post by radio on Mar 29, 2015 10:47:55 GMT -5
Lots of fossils around Bakersfield. Anyone remember Sharktooth Hill? I always wanted to go there, but I heard no collecting has been allowed for several years now. Lots of Mollusks around the Coalinga area with many in concretions Sharktooth has fee digs all the time. They advertise online regularly. Google is your friend. When did they start that? Before I left Ca. I had heard it was closed to any and all collecting. Perhaps they were gearing up for the fee digs about that time. If I were still there I would gladly pay to dig a day or two
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 29, 2015 13:56:33 GMT -5
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 29, 2015 15:08:09 GMT -5
Wow!!!! I'm sure no guarantee's either-seem's kind of steep to me......I guess I would pass! LOL
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 29, 2015 16:22:46 GMT -5
Yep, I'm an old Cadys hunter. No dino bone or shark teeth there. Wrong age and volcanic rocks. There is some palm root. Bakersfield is fossil heaven. I used to go to Sharktooth Hill and sites the other side of the river all the time. Lots of fish and mammals besides the shark teeth too. I'm not sure but I think the current fee dig takes your good stuff ( rarer finds) too. Think you just get to keep the common stuff but I may be wrong. Lots of teeth there. Used to commonly find a hundred or more in a days dig.....Mel
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 29, 2015 20:38:19 GMT -5
Sounds like Holleywood Ranch here in Sweet Home,OR..... Fee hounding for petwood and they keep the rare wood you find...
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 30, 2015 9:52:01 GMT -5
Ok talked with my buddy James-he said they were in the Cady Mountains for agate and jasper,than towards Bakersfield for fossils....Thumbs up They sure have some big rattler now that way!!
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Post by johnjsgems on Mar 30, 2015 11:06:40 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure nowhere in CA is old enough for dino bone. Some much more recent whale bone is mistaken for dino. Somewhat similar cell structure at first glance. Most of the Western half was undersea until fairly recent times. You can find trilobite fossils and crinoids a little farther East in Cadiz area (Marble Mountains). Really old fossil coral in southeastern corner of CA. Our local hills have palm, palm bog, etc. from lusher times.
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 30, 2015 11:23:20 GMT -5
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 30, 2015 11:40:09 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure nowhere in CA is old enough for dino bone. Some much more recent whale bone is mistaken for dino. Somewhat similar cell structure at first glance. Most of the Western half was undersea until fairly recent times. You can find trilobite fossils and crinoids a little farther East in Cadiz area (Marble Mountains). Really old fossil coral in southeastern corner of CA. Our local hills have palm, palm bog, etc. from lusher times. Yes,there is dino bone in California!!!! Research my friend..Thumbs up ( PS: I mean no disrespect)...
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Post by inyo on Mar 30, 2015 13:43:36 GMT -5
I will get a few photos of the bone he gave me... Assuming that those specimens came from the Sharktooth Hill area, I would say that the top and bottom examples resemble typical marine mammal bone fragments from the Round Mountain Silt Member of the middle Miocene Temblor Formation, Sharktooth Hill bone bed (15.9 to 15.2 million years old); paleontologic fragmental remain in middle could well be something different. I have a personal, non-commercial virtual field trip to the world-famous Sharktooth Hill bone bed (yields the largest assemblage and greatest concentration of middle Miocene shark teeth and marine mammal bones in the world), northeast of Bakersfield, California over at A Visit To The Sharkooth Hill Bone Bed, Southern California
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 30, 2015 16:51:11 GMT -5
Yes they are from that area!!
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Post by snowmom on Mar 31, 2015 6:05:01 GMT -5
watching with interest.
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Post by radio on Mar 31, 2015 6:56:40 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure nowhere in CA is old enough for dino bone. Some much more recent whale bone is mistaken for dino. Somewhat similar cell structure at first glance. Most of the Western half was undersea until fairly recent times. You can find trilobite fossils and crinoids a little farther East in Cadiz area (Marble Mountains). Really old fossil coral in southeastern corner of CA. Our local hills have palm, palm bog, etc. from lusher times. La Brea tar pits? Also, when I lived in Ca, utility companies were digging up some kind of ancient Horse bones and other assorted goodies in the central valley near the lakes East of Modesto. Had all the local Geologists/Paleontologists in a tizzy and they ended up in a Sacramento museum if I remember correctly. All I ever found was Marine fossils
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 31, 2015 10:52:23 GMT -5
I have seen the stuff that comes out of the La Brea tar pits-cool species!!! Looks like the same mammal bones (color wise) that they find in Florida.......
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