Recent full body discoveries have revealed that Ptychodus was a open water lamnid and not a bottom dweller. It's diet probably consisted of ammonites and fish. Ptychodus mortoni was the last of the Ptychodus species. As the genus was going extinct, it is rarer to find them than earlier species.
Whoa! That "volcano" tooth is amazing!!!! Congrats. I have a work trip booked to Atlanta in November. Once that ticket is confirmed, I am going to extend my trip and book some time with you on an excursion in SC. Your enthusiasm is refreshing and I can't wait to find some goodies! Also just purchased your Fossil book yesterday. Looks AMAZING so far!
Thanks for showing the brighter things in life, walking through a pile of rocks to find a treasure like that must be a good feeling. Hopefully I might find a treasure on my next fossil hunt with you!!! Take care
Hi Brandon, thanks for watching! There’s a lot of wonderful things to be discovered in this world. Can’t wait to share them with you on a tour in the future!
Great video and amazing finds. Love watching you content. What state did you hunt? I am planning some trips next year and doing research on what states I wants to visit to do some shark tooth hunting. I live in Texas and can find ptychodus whipplei ( my favorite shark tooth to find locally) in Sherman, Texas
Love that fact you rocking the bow tie…. Kinda a reminder of Sheldon Big Bang theory! Your a good man Ashby can’t wait to go on adventure with you soon…
Hi David! You’re absolutely right - no matter how long the day, somehow the best finds wait until you’re about to leave to show themselves! 😂😂 Thanks for watching!
I had been watching your TH-cam channel for a couple of months now and I’m always in Charleston bc some of my family lives there and I love shark teeth so I went to Barnes and Nobel and bought your book but I didn’t know it was your book until I got back to Atlanta and I was mind blown. It’s a great book.
Enjoy your vids man, wish my pops would go hunting with me. I'm in florida digging around in hawthorn group coosawhatchie formation and I have found over 60 meg teeth mostly flawed but about 10 are perfect one 4" even bigger. All these teeth were found in a 100 yard stretch or so in the creek. For the life of me I cannot dig one in context what am I doing wrong? I can find whole whale rib bones that are white cream colored in a tight white colored clay. I dug little teeth out of the bottom silver bluish layer. This creek also has alot of hard bottom. Huge boulders of apprears to be what they call ocala limestone. Any advice would be greatly appreciated can't figure out what im doing wrong.
Hi Gary, thanks for watching! It’s a truly special experience to share the hunting trips with family members. Hopefully one day your father will go out with you! If you are on top of the Ocala Limestone, that’s an Eocene deposit, so you’re looking at rocks that are at minimum 15 million years older than megalodon; so you won’t find any in situ megalodon teeth there. My guess is that the deposit your megs originate from is a lag deposit - aka the gravel layer created when water sorts single or multiple deposits, removing sand and congregating the heavier objects. It’s easier to find numerous fossils in lag deposits, whereas finding them in their original deposit takes covering more ground, since the fossils are widely dispersed. I bet you’ll come across one in situ someday! Happy hunting!
I must say, I love your channel, but this video... Really tops it! I loved this video! Alwats wanted to find some Ptychodus, Squalicorax, Hybodus and leave alone Cretoxyrhina teeth! Epic finds! Congrats, you made me jealous! 👌🦈
Hi Jurassic Juul! Thank you so much for this lovely comment! So glad you enjoyed this video; it’s definitely the most edited one thus far, and I’m really pleased with how it came out. 😃 Hope you enjoy the next video that comes out in this series!!
A fantastic video ! What a great trip and adventure togheter whith your dad ! I did not even know these teeth existed. You guys worked so hard for it and all the hard work pays off. Enjoyed everything about this video.
Hi David, thanks for watching! Your comments are so kind - thank you! Glad you enjoyed our vacation. These shark teeth are really fascinating. We can’t wait to revisit this locality to find more!
I met a guy on Reddit from Kansas and he sent me some ptychodus teeth from Kansas. This was an impetus for me to go back upstairs break them all out and just really admire how neat they are! The ones he sent me aren't nearly as large as the ones you found though, and and the pattern is different.. These look more like a topographical map than a volcano! Some day if I'm ever in South Carolina again Maybe I can take one of your tours.
Hi Rich, thanks for watching! That’s fantastic that you were able to receive some teeth from Kansas. There are some beautiful fossils that come out of there. Sounds like you have Ptychodus marginalis teeth. Look them up online and let me know if it’s a match!
Aha, yes! That’s another species out in KS with those ridges. Those can have some crazy crowns where the apex juts up severely from the rest of the tooth.
Hey I was planning to make a Megalodon video for my TH-cam channel and I was wondering if it was OK to make a shout out for you since you look for fossilized shark teeth like megalodon teeth all the time I thought it be cool to shout out your TH-cam channel if that’s all right
It’s fairly common at our normal Charleston sites, but at this particular locality we only found three pieces over three days. To put it into perspective, the same 36 hours in Charleston wound have turned up at least 30 pieces!
Recent full body discoveries have revealed that Ptychodus was a open water lamnid and not a bottom dweller. It's diet probably consisted of ammonites and fish. Ptychodus mortoni was the last of the Ptychodus species. As the genus was going extinct, it is rarer to find them than earlier species.
Whoa! That "volcano" tooth is amazing!!!! Congrats. I have a work trip booked to Atlanta in November. Once that ticket is confirmed, I am going to extend my trip and book some time with you on an excursion in SC. Your enthusiasm is refreshing and I can't wait to find some goodies! Also just purchased your Fossil book yesterday. Looks AMAZING so far!
Thanks for showing the brighter things in life, walking through a pile of rocks to find a treasure like that must be a good feeling. Hopefully I might find a treasure on my next fossil hunt with you!!! Take care
Hi Brandon, thanks for watching! There’s a lot of wonderful things to be discovered in this world. Can’t wait to share them with you on a tour in the future!
Great video and amazing finds. Love watching you content. What state did you hunt? I am planning some trips next year and doing research on what states I wants to visit to do some shark tooth hunting.
I live in Texas and can find ptychodus whipplei ( my favorite shark tooth to find locally) in Sherman, Texas
Loved the video I've found my very own ptychodus teeth here in Texas. where were y'all at finding them
Great video! Thanks for taking us along 👍
Hi Bird Garden, thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video! 🤩
Love that fact you rocking the bow tie….
Kinda a reminder of Sheldon Big Bang theory!
Your a good man Ashby can’t wait to go on adventure with you soon…
Hi Brandon! Thanks for watching and the bow tie compliment. 😃 Look forward to seeing you on a tour!!
Fantastic shark teeth ,awesome hunt ,best finds always come right at the end.Great to meet your dad on this trip.💪👍
Hi David! You’re absolutely right - no matter how long the day, somehow the best finds wait until you’re about to leave to show themselves! 😂😂 Thanks for watching!
I had been watching your TH-cam channel for a couple of months now and I’m always in Charleston bc some of my family lives there and I love shark teeth so I went to Barnes and Nobel and bought your book but I didn’t know it was your book until I got back to Atlanta and I was mind blown. It’s a great book.
Hi Ashley - wow, what a wonderful story! 🤩 So glad you’re enjoying the book! Hope it helps you with identifying all of your finds!
Enjoy your vids man, wish my pops would go hunting with me. I'm in florida digging around in hawthorn group coosawhatchie formation and I have found over 60 meg teeth mostly flawed but about 10 are perfect one 4" even bigger. All these teeth were found in a 100 yard stretch or so in the creek. For the life of me I cannot dig one in context what am I doing wrong? I can find whole whale rib bones that are white cream colored in a tight white colored clay. I dug little teeth out of the bottom silver bluish layer. This creek also has alot of hard bottom. Huge boulders of apprears to be what they call ocala limestone. Any advice would be greatly appreciated can't figure out what im doing wrong.
Hi Gary, thanks for watching! It’s a truly special experience to share the hunting trips with family members. Hopefully one day your father will go out with you! If you are on top of the Ocala Limestone, that’s an Eocene deposit, so you’re looking at rocks that are at minimum 15 million years older than megalodon; so you won’t find any in situ megalodon teeth there. My guess is that the deposit your megs originate from is a lag deposit - aka the gravel layer created when water sorts single or multiple deposits, removing sand and congregating the heavier objects. It’s easier to find numerous fossils in lag deposits, whereas finding them in their original deposit takes covering more ground, since the fossils are widely dispersed. I bet you’ll come across one in situ someday! Happy hunting!
I must say, I love your channel, but this video... Really tops it! I loved this video! Alwats wanted to find some Ptychodus, Squalicorax, Hybodus and leave alone Cretoxyrhina teeth! Epic finds! Congrats, you made me jealous! 👌🦈
Hi Jurassic Juul! Thank you so much for this lovely comment! So glad you enjoyed this video; it’s definitely the most edited one thus far, and I’m really pleased with how it came out. 😃 Hope you enjoy the next video that comes out in this series!!
A fantastic video ! What a great trip and adventure togheter whith your dad ! I did not even know these teeth existed.
You guys worked so hard for it and all the hard work pays off.
Enjoyed everything about this video.
Hi David, thanks for watching! Your comments are so kind - thank you! Glad you enjoyed our vacation. These shark teeth are really fascinating. We can’t wait to revisit this locality to find more!
Bro you need progressively smaller sieves. Starting out at an inch and a quarter to 3/4th to 1/4th
I met a guy on Reddit from Kansas and he sent me some ptychodus teeth from Kansas. This was an impetus for me to go back upstairs break them all out and just really admire how neat they are! The ones he sent me aren't nearly as large as the ones you found though, and and the pattern is different.. These look more like a topographical map than a volcano!
Some day if I'm ever in South Carolina again Maybe I can take one of your tours.
Hi Rich, thanks for watching! That’s fantastic that you were able to receive some teeth from Kansas. There are some beautiful fossils that come out of there. Sounds like you have Ptychodus marginalis teeth. Look them up online and let me know if it’s a match!
@@CharlestonFossilAdventures he labeled it as ptycodus whipplei.
Now I need to find some like you found to add to my collection.
Aha, yes! That’s another species out in KS with those ridges. Those can have some crazy crowns where the apex juts up severely from the rest of the tooth.
@@CharlestonFossilAdventures yes, it's quite dramatic!
Excellent evidence of Noah's Flood!
Love your response if people would just stop and think the flood explains it all and a lot better !!!!
Hey I was planning to make a Megalodon video for my TH-cam channel and I was wondering if it was OK to make a shout out for you since you look for fossilized shark teeth like megalodon teeth all the time I thought it be cool to shout out your TH-cam channel if that’s all right
Hi Gus! Sure, that would be wonderful! Thanks for asking!
No problem
Tag us in the description so we know when it comes out! 🙌
Ok
Omg! LoL how rare is fossil shark poop? 🤔
It’s fairly common at our normal Charleston sites, but at this particular locality we only found three pieces over three days. To put it into perspective, the same 36 hours in Charleston wound have turned up at least 30 pieces!
@@CharlestonFossilAdventures wow!
You look like your dad