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2017 Summer Calendar Presidents Note the Heat Is On! Summer Is Here in Full Force A H C ROL RT IN O A N The Newsletter of the North Carolina Fossil Club www.ncfossilclub.org F O B 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.
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