It was pretty warm and steamy today (87 F and 77 percent RH) so we decided to
drive to the beach. As soon as we got out of the car we spotted this Osprey
sitting on the pylon that marks the harbor.
I guess it was just too muggy to hunt.
Don't let the appearance fool you. It was warm going.
A pretty good day for fossils, 37 shark's teeth between us and the usual other stuff, but nothing worthy a
separate picture; however, harking back to yesterday . . .
Georgia showed me this after we got off the beach. I know it's not much to look
at, but after initially writing it off as a random concretion, I convinced
myself it might be a cetacean ear bone, and I posted these pictures on the local
fossil facebook group. Some of the responses:
Dolphin earbone. Should be diagnostic. Probably reworked from the Calvert
formation; probably Xiphiacetus - very nice find!!!
. . .
Nice find! This is probably Zarhachis or Pomatodelphis, or possibly
Phocageneus! Regardless, it's a platanistoid and probably a platanistid.
. . .
Related to the river dolphins right?
A reconstruction of Xiphiacetus
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