We had high hope for a great fossil day, after we had a sudden thunderstorm early this morning that dropped 1.78 inches of rain in an hour.
While I was hoovering up all kinds of small teeth (tiger sharks, Carcharhinus, the occasional small Snaggletooth), Georgia and Skye were finding this huge porpoise tooth.
Paul Murdoch, our local expert, has tentatively identified it as
Hadrodelphis, although another pro suggests
Macrokentriodon as a possibility.
Hadrodelphis is an extinct genus of dolphin once assigned to the paraphyletic/polyphyletic family Kentriodontidae. Remains have been found in the middle Miocene (Langhian) Calvert Formation of United States.
It was low to mid 80's, partly cloudy, humid, and breezy from the SW, which left the water at the beach almost glassy
Teenagers playing catch in the shallows near the jetty at Flag Harbor.
And some tubing out on the other side, while a cormorant watches.
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