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S U anus SIL CL J 2017 Number 2 2017 Summer Calendar Presidents Note The heat is on! Summer is here in full force. As we take a July break from collecting trips, it’s an ideal time to curate your 16 NCFC Meeting – NCMNS, 11 West Jones treasures from the spring. We are already busy working on setting Street, Raleigh. 1:30 pm, Level A conference up the trips for the fall. Our ongoing negotiations with Martin room. Dr. James Bain will talk about his collecting Marietta continue to be successful. We were lucky to get these expeditions to the Great American West. trips, and we will continue be under scrutiny to affirm we can September follow the rules, etc. As a result we will continue to hold field trip 17 NCFC Meeting – NCMNS, 11 West Jones attendance to smaller groups and being more active in monitoring Street, Raleigh. 1:30 pm, Level A conference folks who attend. We don’t want to lose this privilege. If you room. Program TBA break the rules or get in trouble on a field trip, you will be asked to leave and will probably not be allowed in again. We will also 30 Aurora Old Dock Workshop – More be having field trips to non-quarries, with Rick Trone kindly information to come in next Janus. offering to host trips to GMR and the Tar River. Old Dock will October also be offered again. 7 NCFC/Aurora Fossil Museum National Fossil As always there will be numerous opportunities for outreach Day Celebration and Picnic - More information and I encourage everyone to get out there and try to do at least a to come in next Janus. little outreach this year. You don’t have to be an expert, in fact, you have to know anything at all – just have a passion for fossils Fall trips, Fossil Fair, etc., in next Janus. and off you go. Hope to see you at a meeting, in the field or at an event! Happy Hunting, Linda

Some of Linda’s photos from the recent Aurora Picnic. One of the shark teeth (below, 13/4" high) Ken found at Lee Creek has a good story. It was an unknown species to me and to everyone I asked. It most resembled an Eocene species, Brachycarcharias lerichei, so I identified it (and another Lee Creek tooth that Terry Anne Denny had) as Brachycarcharias sp. in Volume III. About six months after it was published, Dr. Kenshu Shimada, a well-known fossil shark expert at DePaul University in Chicago, contacted me. He had discovered a few other, similar teeth and wanted to publish a paper on them. The only problem: journals are very reluctant to accept papers that reference specimens in private hands. Dr. Shimada asked me to see if Ken and Terry would donate their teeth to a museum. I did and they did, even with my emphasizing the uniqueness of the teeth (Shimada had found a total of five in the whole world). Shimada got the paper, and named a new genus and species of fossil shark: Megalolamna paradoxodon. How did Pat and Ken accomplish so many remarkable finds? They were guides at the mine, giving them regular entry. They also had a contract to provide PCS with 20,000 small teeth per year in plastic bags for give-away. This allowed them access to the reject pile in the mine with its wealth of early Pungo River material, and that was a source of many of the unusual specimens. But the main ingredient was hard work. Think of it: They would have to average 100 teeth a day for 200 days to make their yearly quota! If you think about it that way, it doesn’t seem so much like fun; more like work. The North Carolina fossil community lost a significant member on February 22. Ken was not splashily extroverted, but certainly not shy. He didn’t trumpet his great finds, but he was proud of them. And some great finds he did make. Ken Young (1942 - 2017), In Memoriam Richard Chandler Members of the North Carolina Fossil Club came to know Ken Ken Young passed away at his residence in Washington, North (after his retirement) as a fossil collector and a friend of fossil Carolina on February 22nd, 2017. He and Pat had been married collectors who knew his home with Pat as a place of good food for over 40 years and both were integral parts of the fossil scene and hospitality. Those traits spilled over to other critters. in Aurora. Ken was the “silent” one of the collecting duo to most At their home in Edward and later in Washington, Ken made observers, but once you got to really know Ken, he was anything sure the birds knew where to get a good meal. His yard was but silent. littered with bird feeders of all sorts, some which Ken fashioned Bonnie and I first met Ken around 1999 when we made our from old milk cartons and the like. There was a variety of food first trip from Wisconsin to Aurora. We had seen Bill Heim find a for them, even to an open delight of grape jelly. As a result he large megalodon tooth on some PBS show and we set out to see and Pat and their guests were treated to a very wide assortment what that was all about. We contacted Pat at the Aurora Fossil of flittering color through all seasons. It was sheer delight to Museum and arranged to go there for the Fossil Festival. Once share the experience of watching with him since he could identify there, we asked Pat (out of ignorance) if there was anyone in the birds and often added comments about personalities of the town that would sell some teeth? Pat walked us to the parking pecking order or migratory patterns. One of the last visual lot behind the museum where Ken was doing some work and images I have of Ken was seeing him facing the window and introduced us to him and asked him if he would sell some teeth. quietly watching out over the backyard at Washington to check He gruffly said that he didn’t sell teeth and didn’t know anyone the feeders. Peaceful . . . . Joy Herrington that would. “ You gotta find your own” he remarked. As we got to know both of them better, Ken was always very When I started to work on Fossils of North Carolina, willing to share his knowledge with us and show us the finer Volume III, in earnest, I knew one of the places I had to visit points of hunting in the PCS spoils. His gruff exterior melted for photography was Pat and Ken’s house in Edward. They away and we found him to be a very warm, loving and generous had perhaps the most extensive man. Not only did he and Pat share their knowledge with us, they collection of rare Lee Creek shark opened their home to us for countless dinners and conversations. fossils anywhere. I’m not talking Over the years we felt more like family than the “Damn Yankees” about Carcharocles megalodon teeth as Ken would remark. We learned the finer points of Beer Can or sting ray scutes (although they Chicken, Ken’s Meatloaf and pig tails. He taught us how to fish had plenty of those). Very few of you for crab, make mashed potatoes without lumps, and find fossils. have ever even seen a Carcharoides catticus tooth, let alone found His devotion to collecting fossils from PCS supplied Pat with any. Pat and Ken literally had the raw material for her studies and contributions to the science dozens! When Joy Herrington and and understanding of the unique place that the area held for I were doing the photography for paleontological importance. Hunting in the mine with Ken was the Marine Mammals section of like trailing a goat up the mountain side. He’d be moving along Volume IV we were startled by the at a fast pace and then stop, saying to me “do you see that?” Most stuff they had: many rare seal and of the time I had no clue what he was looking at until he pulled whale fossils, including the prized a fossil from the dirt which only had one small part showing. Squalodon teeth. Slowly we learned and enjoyed so many hours of collecting with Ken and Pat. After the hunts we would go back to their home I first met Ken in the late in Edward and dump our finds into cardboard boxes and sit at 1990’s after relocating to eastern the kitchen table to go over the treasure. People were always North Carolina. On an early trip dropping in with their finds. The fridge was always stocked with to the PCS mine I struck up a sweet tea and beer for all. The conversations were fascinating and conversation with him about his we made so many good friends through Ken and Pat. collecting targets and preferences. Sometimes Ken would slip away and be glued to his NASCAR It soon became obvious that he was favorites or head out to the deck to sort his finds and it was some not simply a conventional “meg of those times I would spend with him that I remember the most. hunter”. He and I shared an interest We talked about his experiences in the Marines, his Purple Heart, in rare teeth and spent several long, fishing exploits and just about anything else you can imagine. hot afternoons on hands and knees After a while it struck me that Ken was like a geode. A rough scouring Pungo slopes especially exterior but when you looked inside you found a unique and those which contained some wonderful vista. Those of us that got to know Ken were enriched Oligocene/Miocene teeth. by his friendship and humor; he will always be deeply loved and From time to time, we would missed. Doug and Bonnie Chaussee meet up in the museum or the PCS parking lot to discuss finds, a Another of Ken’s fabulous Bonnie and Doug are not members of the North Carolina finds. That’s not a broken Fossil Club but they knew Ken better than anyone in the fossil process which I thoroughly enjoyed. 23/8"chubutensis tooth. It’s community I could think of (except Pat). Ken was truly bitten by the”fossil as complete as the shark collecting bug” and, in my opinion, made it! enjoyed nothing more than the collecting experience. As his disease progressed, I saw less of him and sensed a lot of frustration. Hopefully he has found new The Wonder of it All slopes to explore. As a longtime volunteer for the Aurora Fossil Museum in Rich Olsen Some of you newer members probably will not recognize Aurora, NC, I do a lot of outreach for the museum. Some of it is Rich Olsen. He was a very active Club member in the late for A Time for Science in Grifton and Go-Science in downtown 1990’s -- early 2000’s and was President 2001 - 2003. Although Greenville, NC. Back on February 9, 2017 I was going to do a his primary interest seems to be in minerals (he has a truly fossil display and talk with a of group of students at Go-Science, outstanding collection), he still “keeps his hand in” at Aurora. but before they arrived I was speaking with Maria McDaniel and Emily Jarvis and they told me that a local school class had picked my fossil collection and myself as one of the wonders of other wonders: Cypress Glen a United Methodist Retirement Greenville. At first I thought they were just pulling my leg and Community, the Water treatment plant, a metals sculpture, the then they said no, it was not a joke. Mrs. Clark, a third grade local News stations, East Carolina University football stadium, teacher at the Wahl Coates Elementary School in Greenville, was the Animal Shelter, and my fossil collection and myself. talking to Emily who is a parent of a student in her class that she When the students returned to their school, Mr. Phillis gave had an idea for doing a class project about the 7 wonders of Pitt them some of the sediment he had recovered from Greens Mill County and the City of Greenville, NC after she had read a book Run Creek behind the school for the kids to make a cast of the called Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty G. Birney fossil they had collected at my home and from the dirt out of the and she was inspired by it. My name was then given to Mrs. creek, they also used some other items in the clay to see what Clark by Emily because of my fossil collection and she thought it they would look like. would be great as one of the wonders. WOW! What a great way for these kids to learn about their Later, after I had talked with the students that came to Go- home town, and places and things in the community, and how Science that day, Maria, Emily and I talked more about this and they looked and worked and how they service the community by they said that it would be great if the kids could come to my doing what they do. home to talk with me and to see my fossil collection themselves and I said that would be a lot of fun to do for them. So on On May 5th, at the Go-Science center from 5:00 – 8:00 pm, February 17 Jeff Young from A Time for Science in Grifton, NC the premiere of Mrs. Clark’s third grade class project will be came by at 6 am and parked a trailer with dirt from the PCS Mine celebrating the 7 Places that Make Greenville Wonderful and for in Aurora, NC, loaded with fossils in my driveway and at 8 am me I am truly honored and that is the Wonder of it All. Amanda Adkins & Emily from Go-Science came to help out with I would like to thank everyone who made this possible: the students when they got there. • Mrs. Coni Clark, 3rd Grade Teacher, and the students from the Around 9 am a big yellow school bus pulled up in front of Wahl Coates Elementary School; my home and parked. A few minutes later 29 3rd graders and 5 • Mr. Paul Phillis, Visual Arts Teacher, from the Wahl Coates teachers along with them came out of it, so along with Emily, Elementary School; Amanda, Jeff & the Teachers, we split the kids into three groups. One group looked for fossils in the trailer, the second read the • Emily Jarvis, Executive Director for A Time for Science & Go- book about Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs and the third Science; group came into see my fossils and to talk with me. Then every • Maria McDaniel, Education & Program Director for A Time for 20 minutes or so, the groups would change places. After all of the Science & Go-Science; kids had a turn in my fossil room I went back outside to identify • Amanda Adkins, Nature Interpreter for A Time for Science & the fossils they had found and then I asked for everybody to line Go-Science; and up in front of my front porch for a group photo. • Jeff Young, Operations & Faculty Managerfor A Time for Before they left (after 2 hours of being here) I talked with Mr. Science & Go-Science; Phillis, the Visual Arts Teacher at the school, and asked him to • Cynthia D. Crane, Director, Geologist, Paleontologist, for the send me copies of the photos he had been taking while at my Aurora Fossil Museum. home and to find out who or what the other wonders are. He told me he would be glad to send the photos and a list of the George W. Powell Jr., Amateur Paleontologist, May 5, 2017 Aurora Fossil Festival, 2017 A couple of fabulous things occurred at the Festival this year. First, Tom Burns and his wife Pam were there. I know 99% of you are asking “Who on earth is Tom Burns??” Tom was President of the NCFC either the year I joined or the following one (in the mid 1980’s). Tom was enthusiastic about collecting and had a particularly good selection of NC Cretaceous fossils from Phoebus Landing on the Cape Fear River. John Timmerman illustrated several of his specimens in Cretaceous and Paleocene Fossil of North Carolina. I also photographed several for the Reptiles section of the forthcoming Fossils of North Carolina, Volume IV. Alas, he dropped out of the NCFC so he could support his son in the Scouts. More recently, Tom had a double lung transplant, made necessary most likely because of on-the-job exposure to a hazardous work environment. That’s the reason he’s “wearing” the surgical mask while talking to me in the photo to the right that Trish Kohler took (we were sitting behind part of her exhibit at the time). The second remarkable thing that occurred is that Trish Kohler was selected as Fossil Master. The first photo (both by Diane Willis) shows her being “crowned” by Cindy Crane and Candace Holliday. This is a long deserved recognition, given the huge amount of support Trish has shown for the Festival over its 24 years of existence. Her exhibits are always encyclopaedic; she is among the first to start setting up and always the last to finish packing. She has given the Auction a huge portion of her time and energy. The second photo below shows Trish in front of part of her latest exhibit at AFF. AFF Movers & Shakers: Why did it take you so long? Belgrade Trip The NC Fossil Club had a spectacular visit to the Martin Marietta Belgrade quarry on May 12, documented by Trish Kohler (as usual). Several firsts (as best I know) were found: I’ve seen many rostral spines of Anoxypristis ensidens, but no rostral fragments. And how about the large heart urchin? Or two hell-pig teeth!! Who says you can’t have a great time, even though PCS-Lee Creek is closed?

Part of the crew, hunting at Belgrade Also hunting at Belgrade

Is someone more interested in food than in fossils? A first! Linda’s Anoxypristis ensidens rostral fragment

Maybe another first: Linda’s nurse shark tooth. Louis Kohler’s Anoxypristis ensidens rostral spine

Earl Guertin & Todd Power show off Daeodon(?) teeth!! Another first? Linda’s Hemipatagus carolinensis echinoid A Whale of a Small Whale’s Tale Synonyms Richard Chandler Zeuglodon/Basilosaurus, Tuomey, 1847. In 1847 a small (14.5") whale skull containing one tooth was Zeuglodon/Basilosaurus, Gibbes, 1847. found (in two pieces) near Greer’s Landing, on the Ashley River, Zeuglodon pygmæus, Müller, 1849. about 10 miles upstream of Charleston (eastern South Carolina), Phocodon Holmesii, Agassiz, 1850? (unpublished plate). in an early Oligocene (Rupelian) marine sandstone of the Ashley Formation, lower Cooper Group, by Francis Simmons Holmes, Pontogeneus priscus Leidy, 1852. Esq.1 and Prof. Lewis Reeve Gibbes2 who passed it on to Michael Basilosaurus pygmæus, Leidy, 1853. Tuomey3 who published it in 1847 in the Proceedings of the Doryodon pygmæus Cope, 1867. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with a somewhat Squalodon pygmæus Leidy, 1869. stylized drawing, calling it “a Cranium of Zeuglodon”. Agorophius pygmaeus Cope, 1895. Several early researchers observed it had some of the features of a mysticete whale but with a tooth! So it stirred a lot of References interest, including that of two of the foremost paleontologists in the world: Louis Rudolphe Agassiz4 and Johannes Peter Müller5. Tuomey, M., 1847. Notice of the discovery of a cranium of the Müller published it as Zeuglodon pygmaeus Müller, 1849, Zeuglodon. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences apparently based solely on Tuomey’s description and drawings. of Philadelphia, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 151-153, with 2 text figs. Agassiz borrowed the skull and had a careful lithograph made (right lateral & dorsal views). on which was inscribed Phocodon Holmesii Agass. His original Gibbes, R. W., 1847. On the Fossil genus Basilosaurus, Harlan, plan was to publish it in a series of memoirs by the recently (Zeuglodon, Owen,) with a Notice of Specimens from established Smithsonian Institution, but these never materialized. the Eocene Green Sand of South Carolina, Journal of the Agassiz returned the skull, minus the tooth(!) - which, for some Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Series II, Vol reason, remained at Harvard (MCZ 8761, see below). I, 2-15 (see p. 8). Joseph Leidy6 published on it in 1869, giving it the name Müller, J., 1849. Uber die fossilen Reste der Zeuglodonten von Squalodon pygmæus, and included a new lithograph of the skull Nordamerica [About the fossil remains of zeuglodonts in without the tooth. He made a careful comparison with modern North America]. 38 p. and extinct whales and dolphins and concluded that it was from Leidy, J., 1869. The extinct mammalian fauna of Dakota and a new species of Squalodon, a genus erected by Jean-Pierre Nebraska, including an account of some allied forms from Sylvestre de Grateloup7 in 1840. Sometime after this, the skull other localities, together with a synopsis of the mammalian was lost. It was not found in his collection which he donated remains of North America. Journal of the Academy of to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. In 1895, Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 2, 472 p. 8 Leidy’s student, Edward Drinker Cope , made Z. pygmæus the Cope, E. D., 1895. Fourth contribution to the marine fauna of type species of his new genus Agorophius. Whale specialist the Miocene Period of the United States. Proceedings of the Frederick William True (1858-1914 - then curator of mammals at American Philosophical Society, vol. 34, pp. 135-155. the Smithsonian) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._ True) - wrote a summary article in 1907, but couldn’t find True, F. W., 1907. Remarks on the type of the fossil cetacean either the skull or tooth. This must have inspired Robert Ewan Agorophius pygmaeus (Müller). Smithsonian Institution Fordyce (currently Professor of Geology, Otago University, New Publication no. 1694, 8 p. Zealand), who was eventually able to locate the tooth at Harvard Fordyce, R. E., 1981. Systematics of the odontocete whale around 1980. The skull is still lost and presumed destroyed. Agorophius pygmaeus and the Family Agorophiidae 1 (Mammalia: Cetacea). Journal of Paleontology, vol. 55, no. Holmes (1815-1892) became the curator of the Museum of Charleston in 1850. 5, pp. 1028-1045. He and Tuomey later published Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina (1857) and, following Tuomey’s death in 1857, Holmes published Post-Pliocene Fossils of Godfrey, S. J., M. D. Uhen, J. E. Osborne, L. E. Edwards, 2016. South Carolina (1860). A new specimen of Agorophius pygmaeus (Agorophiidae, 2 Odontoceti, Cetacea) from the early Oligocene Ashley Gibbes (1810-1894) was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Formation of South Carolina, USA. Journal of Paleontology, the College of Charleston. vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 154-169. 3 State Geologist of South Carolina from 1844-1847, Tuomey (1805-1857) Nice new skull: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/ was the first State Geologist of Alabama from 1848 until his death - https:// topic/52696-agorophius-pygmaeus-muller-1849/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tuomey.

4 Agassiz (1807-1873) had arrived in the U.S. from Switzerland in 1846, and taken a post with the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.

5 Müller (1801-1858) was then Professor of Anatomy at Humboldt University of Berlin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Peter_M%C3%BCller.

6 Leidy (1823-1891) was probably America’s foremost (and capable) paleontolo- gist of the time. Later, his fame was possibly overshadowed by the ruthless and stupid antics of E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh.

7 Grateloup (1782-1862), a French physician and naturalist, published on a “fragment of a fossil jaw of a new genus of reptile (saurian), as large as the iguan- odon” in 1840. After rejecting crocodiles and dolphins (“they don’t have serrated teeth”) he named it Squalodon. Probably because of the quality of his drawings, paleontologists quickly realized it to be a fossil cetacean.

8 Cope (1840-1897) and Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) engaged in the “Bone Wars” from the 1870’s through the 1890’s. Early in his career Cope made a serious error in reconstructing a plesiosaur with its head at the end of its tail. Leidy pointed this out to him in the presence of Marsh. Fordyce’s candidate for the missing tooth: MCZ 8761 Michael Tuomey, 1847 (Cranium of a Zeuglodon or Basilosaurus)

Louis Agassiz, 1848-50 (Phocodon Holmesii)

Joseph Leidy, 1869 (Squalodon pygmæus) Castle Hayne Trip There were two trips to Castle Hayne this spring. These are photos from the first. I didn’t have photos from the second, but if some surface, I’ll include them in the next Janus.

The NCFC crew, poised (not posed) at Castle Hayne A pretty good sponge, easily passed over, but not by Trish

Trish’s hand with an outstanding Striatolamia macrota Libby Smalley is holding an Archaeocete(!) rib piece

Julie Niederkorn’s heartbreakingly large C. auriculatus A spectacular Enchodus tooth

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Mail To: North Carolina Fossil Club, P.O. Box 25276, Raleigh, NC 27611-5276 North Carolina Fossil Club P.O. Box 25276 Raleigh, NC 27611-5276 Trish Kohler as the Aurora Fossil Festival’s Fossil Master, 2017, photo: Cindy Muston