The ECPHORA The Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club Volume 28 Number 4 December 2013
Miocene Atlantic Blue Marlin Skull Features Miocene Marlin Skull Modified Mako Teeth Polynesian Shark Tooth Sledgehammer Bayside History Museum
Inside Ecphora – Barnacle Home Canary Island Megs Fossil Club at PRAD Stratford Hall Whale Prep Pathological Meg Tooth 3-D Scanning Prints on the Beach Bugs at the Beach Reptiles at County Fair Potomac Coprolites Paleo Beer?
Raku Shark Teeth Fish Skeleton as Earrings This lovely partial skull was found by Bill Palmer along Calvert Cliffs. It Dino Gasoline consists of most of the neurocranium of a Miocene Atlantic blue marlin; Field Trips and more… very similar to the living Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans, shown below, from: http://fishonbluemarlin.com/blue-marlin-makaira-nigricans/). Blue marlin are large and very fast-swimming open-ocean predators that use their bill (rostrum) to knife their way through schools of fish, to which they return to consume the stunned or dead individuals. Their scientific name “Makaira” means “short sword” or “dagger”. Skulls like this are exceedingly rare and I look forward to comparing it to the skulls of extant marlin. Hands by M. Baughman. Photo by S. Godfrey. ☼
See page 2… Image from: http://chnm.gmu.edu/tah- loudoun/blog/lessons/american-indians-and- their-environment/
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Modified Fossil Mako Teeth
It is now known that Amerindians collected, traded, and deliberately modified fossil shark teeth to be used as projectile points, knives, and/or scraping tools (Murphy, 1975; Kozuch, 1993; Doran, 2002; Penders, 2002; Purdy, R.W. 2006 Lowery et.al, 2011). They also intentionally drilled holes through the root of fossil shark teeth for possible use as personal adornment or as religious ornamentation. More recently, teeth from extant sharks have also been used by Pacific native peoples to armor shark- tooth weapons (Campbell, 2006; Platt, 2006; and a subsequent article herein).
Figure 2. An enlarged view of Figure 1B. Notice that the tooth is notched between the cutting edge of the blade and the shoulder of the root of the tooth (arrows).
The earliest evidence that pre-European Native Americans gathered and used fossil shark teeth originates from a series of burials at the Windover site in Florida (Penders 2002). These burials are between 5,500 and 12,873 years old (Doran, 2002), and the shark teeth found within the graves show that many were hafted and used as cutting, scraping, incising, and drilling implements (Lowery et.al, 2011). The four large fossil mako (C. hastalis) teeth
figured here (Figs. 1, 2, & 4) are notched in the same Figure 1. Four large fossil Cosmopolitodus (Isurus) way as are four mako (C. hastalis) teeth that were hastalis teeth shown in labial view from the found in a cache at the Wheatley Point site collection of Steve Grossman. These mako teeth (18DO371) in Dorchester County, Maryland (Fig. 3) were collected individually (i.e., they were not (Lowery et. al, 2011; figs 11 & 12). The Wheatley associated) from the bed of the Suwannee River and Point fossil mako teeth were found immediately all show signs suggesting that they were deliberately below the shell midden at site 18DO371. In at least notched by Amerindians for use as projectile points. two of the Suwannee River teeth (Figs. 2 & 4), the notching is so symmetrical and site specific as to suggest that they were deliberately notched for use as projectile points. Club website: http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/exhibits/paleontology-newsletter.php 3 The Ecphora December 2013
Figure 3. A fossil mako (Cosmopolitodus (Isurus) hastalis) tooth cache found at 18DO371 (image from Lowery et al., 2011). Notice that these teeth are Figure 4. An enlarged view of Figure 1C. Notice that notched in the same way as the Suwannee River the tooth is notched between the cutting edge of the makos shown in Figures 1, 2, & 4. blade and the shoulder of the root of the tooth.
The notch would have held sinew that was Doran, G. 2002. The Windover Radiocarbon Chronology. In used to secure the hafted tooth to its wooden shaft. Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Keep in mind that not every notch at the Archaic Florida Cemetery, edited by Glen H. Doran. University Press of Florida, Gainesville junction of a fossil shark tooth’s cutting edge and Lowery D., S.J. Godfrey, and R. Eshelman. 2011. Integrated root was necessarily made by an Amerindian. Some Geology, Paleontology, and Archaeology: Native of these teeth may have been broken naturally; it American Use of Fossil Shark Teeth in the Chesapeake would be worth studying the occurrence of notched Bay Region. Archaeology of Eastern North America fossil shark teeth further. 39:93-108 Kozuch, L. 1993. Sharks and Shark Products in Prehistoric South Florida. Institute of Archaeology and Acknowledgments Paleoenvironmental Studies, Monograph No. 2. University of Florida, Gainesville. Many thanks to Steve Grossman, for the loan of Murphy, J.L. 1975. Sharks Tooth Caches in Wayne County, these handsome mako teeth. Ohio. Ohio Archaeologist 25(4):26-27. Penders, T. 2002. Bone, Antler, Dentary, and Lithic Artifacts. In Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early References Archaic Florida Cemetery, edited by Glen H. Doran. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Campbell, S. 2006. "Shark-Tooth Weapons". Warrior Arts and Platt, A. 2006. Shark Teeth Used as Weapons by Pacific Native Weapons of Ancient Hawaii. Berkeley, California: Blue Peoples - the Tebutje, with a Brief Review of Fossil Shark Snake Books, Berkeley, CA. Teeth and Fossil Silicates by Certain Native Americans. The Ecphora 21(4):7-11. Purdy, R.W. 2006. Analysis of Sharks Teeth: Report on the Whitehurst Archaeological Project Sharks Teeth, Appendix N. In The Archaeology of an Urban Landscape, The
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Whitehurst Freeway Archaeological Project, by D. Knepper, J. Rutherford, D. Hayes, C. Shields, and C. Bowen. Prepared for the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.
Submitted by S. Godfrey. ☼
Dolphins like Surfing Too http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/breachi ng-dolphins-show-australian-surfer-who-really- masters-the-waves/
Submitted by John Nance. ☼
Polynesian Shark-Tooth Sledgehammer
The first Hawaiians came to Hawaii over 1500 years ago from Polynesia in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Weapons often took the form of a club and Polynesian clubs were carved out of Koa wood and some were inlaid with shell or bone for decoration. In some cases, like the Hawaiian Lei o Mano or the shark-tooth club, bone, rock, shell or shark’s teeth were used in place of metal for the purpose of tearing or piercing flesh. Each club had a specific use and targeted a different part of the body. Koa wood is a unique hardwood that grows primarily over the ancient lava flows on the Big Island of Hawaii. The grain of Koa wood is exquisite and comes in many colors...red, blonde, dark and light brown. Curly Koa is a rare exotic wood that is used in making guitars. Only the fallen or non-viable trees are used to make the weapons and frames. While the weapons and paddles can be purchased A Polynesian Lei O Mano (Lei of shark teeth) club without the shadow box frame, the one shown here (a.k.a. Sledgehammer) by TikiMaster. was framed by the manufacturer (TikiMaster) as a work of art in their factory on Oahu. The weapon is Text and photo submitted by Hal Wiggins. ☼ made of Koa wood and the teeth are from a tiger shark. The largest tooth is a fossilized Otodus shark tooth.
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Supersize Miocene New Megamouth Tiger Shark Tooth Shark Species Named
http://news.yahoo.com/extinct-megamouth-shark- species-finally-identified-153514600.html
Submitted by John Nance. ☼
CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM FOSSIL CLUB TRIPS & EVENTS
FOR ALL TRIPS CONTACT Bob Ertman at [email protected]. As soon as possible, but NO LATER than Thursday before a trip. His cell phone number is: 410 533-4203
Sunday, December 1, 2013. Our last trip of this season, the John Wolf Memorial Fossil Trip will be Sunday, Dec. 1. We'll meet at a park and ride in
Middleton, Delaware, at 9:30 a.m. and caravan to a Victor Perez found the large lower tiger shark tooth cornfield in Odessa to collect petrified wood along Calvert Cliffs. Although it is much larger than (cypress from the Pleistocene, probably 1.5-2 million an average-size tiger shark tooth (like the one above years old, close to the Miocene boundary). Here's a it), Dr. Bretton Kent identified it as having come link to a nice write up about one of our trips there: from a very old individual of Galeocerdo aduncus as http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/2011/08/ opposed to it being a tooth from Galeocerdo cuvier petrified-wood-from-delaware.html. (the extant tiger shark; its teeth are not known from Calvert Cliffs). About noon we'll move on to the Chesapeake & Unlike mammals, sharks do not have determinate Delaware Canal for a different kind of collecting. growth; rather they continue to increase in size We’ll be digging & sifting in the spoil banks for (albeit at an ever-slowing rate) for as long as they marine fossils from the Cretaceous, about 144 to 65 live (they have indeterminate growth). Therefore, it million years ago. Here's a link to info on some of would be possible for a very long-lived individual to the things that can be found at the canal: have had teeth much larger than the teeth of http://www.dgs.udel.edu/publications/pubs/SpecialP average-size adults. ublications/sp18.pdf
One of the traditions of this trip is hotdogs & potluck. I’ll bring the hotdogs & buns.
Limit 25. Details at signup. Please sign up with trip leader Bob Ertman as soon as you can but not later than the Thursday before the trip. Please use email if you can, [email protected]. You may also call Bob's cell at 410-533-4203. This will be a joint trip with other clubs in the area. ☼ Modern tiger shark jaws, Galeocerdo cuvier. Hands by M. Baughman. Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼
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Ecphora, home to Miocene Barnacles
Reverse side of the previously-illustrated specimen showing the two barnacles anchored to each other and to the Ecphora shell. The arrow points to a line Pam Platt collected and donated this wonderful marking a time when the snail’s shell was severely assemblage consisting of an Ecphora shell to which damaged! Although the shell was broken, the snail two large Miocene barnacles (Balanus sp.) are recovered from the trauma and the shell continued to attached. grow. Hand by M. Baughman. Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼ Larval barnacles of the cyprid stage are non- feeding and in order to survive, must attach Megalodon Shark Fossil Deposit themselves head-first to a suitable hard surface. Discovered on Canary Islands Finding that suitable hard surface on which to anchor is not necessarily easy; especially since they are very selective as to exactly where they will anchor for life. However, as the larvae exhaust their food reserves, they become less selective and as is evident here, two larval barnacles settled for a juvenile Ecphora shell. From where the barnacles are positioned, it seems unlikely that the Ecphora was alive when they attached themselves to its shell. Once attached to the Ecphora shell the larval barnacles underwent metamorphosis into juvenile barnacles. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/megalo don-shark-fossil-deposit-discovered-on-canary- islands/story-fni6um3i-1226709702571 Scale is in centimeters. Submitted by Doug Alves. Field trip anyone? ☼ Club website: http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/exhibits/paleontology-newsletter.php 7 The Ecphora December 2013
Fossil Club at PRAD Tiny Pathological Meg Tooth
Emily Wagner found this remarkable Carcharocles
megalodon tooth. Emily is one of my (Brett Kent’s) Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club members Steve undergraduate research assistants. She found this very Grossman, Victor Perez, and Pam Platt (pictured small (about 13 mm wide) pathological posterior from left to right here) along with Christa Conant, megalodon tooth at Matoaka. At first I thought it was a Paige Fischer, John Nance, and Stephen Godfrey pathological Hemipristis, but the root is all wrong (no were popular once again this year at Patuxent River large medio-basal nutrient foramen), and there is a thick Appreciation Days (PRAD) enameloid overhang on the labial face (it’s very thin in
Hemipristis). The abrupt change in serration size apically Stratford Hall Whale Preparation is very interesting, and quite unexpected. Text and photo submitted by Bretton W. Kent. ☼
Editor’s Note: I’m going with Dr. Kent’s first impression…pathological Hemipristis.
Shark Poop Story
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-baby-sharks-last- meal-baby-turtle-123355094.html
Submitted by Linda Hanna. ☼
New tyrannosaur discovered in Paige Fischer continues to prepare “Lee” the whale skull and associated vertebrae that we quarried from Southern Utah the cliffs at Stratford Hall, Virginia. Photo by John http://usat.ly/1hjX64l Nance. ☼
Submitted by Mike Ellwood. ☼
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Beach-Find Paleo Exhibit at Bayside History Museum
CMM Fossil Club President and Paleo Collections Manager, John Nance, helped flesh out the paleontology exhibits at the Bayside History Museum, North Beach, Calvert County, Maryland. Below the table-top local Miocene fossil-bearing vitrines are drawers filled with representative fossils Compressed view of Calvert Cliffs. Photos by S. of the type that casual collectors can find along the Godfrey. ☼ northern section of Calvert Cliffs.
The Museum houses an extensive collection of memorabilia from by-gone days of life in and around the communities of Fairhaven, Rosehaven, Holland Point, Friendship, North Beach, Chesapeake Beach, Owings, Holiday Beach, Camp Roosevelt, Willows, Breezy Point, Plum Point and the Chesapeake Bay. Enjoy new exhibits featuring “A Day at the Beach”, Amusement Park Merry- Go-Round complete with carved animals, fishing history extravaganza and programs from original fishing fairs from the 1940s and 1950s. See the new cliff, which is part of an extensive paleontology and archaeology exhibit of fossils and artifacts collected from local beaches. Learn all about beach glass. 4025 4th Street, North Beach, MD 20714 410-610-5970 or 301-855-4028 www.baysidehistorymuseum.org
The exhibit includes a Miocene dolphin skull and May 1 through October 31 lower jaw (Eurhinodelphinidae) from along Calvert Open five days a week Cliffs. Hanging on the back wall is the toothy Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. rostrum of a sawfish (Pristidae), an extant but critically endangered group of sharks. November 1 through April 30 Open two days a week Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Club website: http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/exhibits/paleontology-newsletter.php 9 The Ecphora December 2013
3-D Scanning of Sustainable Seafood
Fossil Dolphin Skulls http://www.marylandseafood.org/fromthebay.html
Unfortunately, there are no local restaurants supporting the From the Bay: For the Bay program, but if you happen to travel to other parts of Maryland in the next week and you are looking for a good restaurant, try eating at one of those that supports this sustainable, local seafood program. The full list of restaurants can be found on the website linked above.
Submitted by David Moyer Curator of Estuarine Biology Calvert Marine Museum. ☼
Save the Date:
Darryl Motley performs a 3-D scan at the Calvert Marine Museum of the type specimen of Secondary Adaptation of Stenasodelphis russellae, a fossil pontoporiid Tetrapods to Life in Water dolphin from the St. Marys Formation.
Here the type specimen of Stenasodelphis russellae is being digitally scanned. More to come… Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼ CNC Services Inc. DBA GoMeasure3D ☼ Phone: 434-946-9125 x 7000 www.GoMeasure3D.com www.Emicroscribe.com
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Great Blue Heron Captures Shark Great Blue Heron at Stratford Hall
Heron’s sharp beak turns table on shark.
These remarkable images were taken at the Forsythe Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey by retired police officer and photography enthusiast Howard L Williams.
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) print along the Potomac River at Stratford Hall, Virginia. Photo by S. Godfrey. ☼
New Web Address for the
Here the dead shark is about to be swallowed. Paleobiology Database Submitted by Linda Hanna. ☼ http://paleobiodb.org/
Digital Paleo Art Submitted by John Nance. ☼
http://mantresd.wix.com/lifeillusion3d ☼
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Recent Burrows on the Beach at ☼ River Otters Frolic Stratford Hall
River otter prints and excavations (with defecation) ‘litter’ the beach at Stratford Hall, Virginia. ☼
Animals Party on the Beach
This and the following photo show evidence of the burrowing activities of an eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus). It is an insectivore, not a rodent, and is related to shrews and bats. Kind of a labor-intensive way of getting around! But that’s where their food is.
Here the tracks of a deer, raccoon, crow, and a dog (or perhaps a coyote!) intersect in the sand along the Potomac River, Virginia. Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼
Coyote: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ki ds/fun_stuff/color/color_coyot e.phtml
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Reptiles Featured at Coprolites from along the Potomac Calvert County Fair
Zodman collected and donated these coprolites that were found along the Potomac. Hands by M. Owner-operator of REPTILE ADVENTURES Baughman. Photo by S. Godfrey. ☼ Danny Conner impresses Calvert County fall fair attendees by holding Sparticus, a large alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii). Mr. Connor has kept and studied reptiles for over 30 Paleo Beer in the Making years, and is widely considered a leading expert in the field. He educates, entertains, and fascinates crowds of all ages as he shares his love, knowledge and respect for these amazing and intriguing animals. http://www.reptileadventures.net/index.php
Club member, Jason Osborne arranged for brewer Jasper Akerboom (center) and Amanda Cavallaro (left) from Lost Rhino Brewing Company to visit the museum and take yeast samples off of some of our fossil whale and dolphin skulls. The hope is that
some of the yeasts will culture and produce an Crocodilian skulls on display at Calvert County amazing paleo beer. This photo was taken during Fair. Brianna Mauler for scale. Photos by S. PRAD when Pam Platt (right) was working the prep Godfrey. ☼ lab. Photo by J. Nance. ☼
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Fossil Display at Stratford Hall Mystery Bone at Stratford Hall
Mystery bones at Stratford Hall: Kendel Godfrey for scale. The specimen was later quarried by Marco Gulotta, Gary and Kyle Grimsley, Victor Perez, and S. Godfrey. The bones are being prepared by Pam Platt at the Calvert Marine Museum and appear to comprise the occipital region of a small baleen whale skull. Later… ☼
I hosted a fossil show-and-tell in October for patrons at Stratford Hall. The beautiful and fully functional Land Snail at Quarry Site historic grist mill stands adjacent to the beach. ☼
Iron Oxidation
Land snail tucked into a crevice at the base of the cliff at Stratford Hall, Virginia. Photos by S.
Godfrey. ☼ Symmetrical oxidation banding on either side of the central fissure; beach at Stratford Hall, VA. ☼
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which can now be added cave-like fossil excavations. Grapevine Beetle ☼ Wheel Bugs Get Around
Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it: Grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctate) walks past shark tooth along Potomac River! ☼
Cave Cricket along the Potomac
The wheel bug (Arilus cristatus), in the family Reduviidae, is one of the largest terrestrial true bugs in North America, being up to 1.5 inches (38 mm) in length. Notice their wheel-shaped pronotal (just behind its head) armor. They are predators upon soft-bodied insects which they pierce with their beak to inject salivary fluids that dissolve soft tissue (yum). Although wheel bugs are considered beneficial insects, they can inflict a painful bite if handled carelessly. Here a male rides shotgun on a female, preventing other males from mating with her… Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼
Sinclair Brontosaurus…?
On a recent return visit to excavate at Stratford Hall, cave crickets had taken up residence within the dark recesses of the quarry. Cave crickets belong to the orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae, and include cave and camelback crickets (just two of the names given to these long-legged crickets). They are characterized in part by their long antennae and legs. Most are found in forest environments or within caves, animal burrows, cellars, under stones, to
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Raku Megalodon Teeth Pices
Susan Cross (Director of Calvert County Student Hand by V. Godfrey. Photo by S. Godfrey. Mentorship Program) should have known better than to wear fish-skeleton earrings to the Museum. Anything skeletal attracts my attention. Photo by S. Godfrey. ☼
Sign at Calvert County Fair
At Artsfest (an arts show and sale held annually at Annmarie Garden in Solomons, Maryland [http://www.annmariegarden.org/]), I had the pleasure of meeting Mark Smith, the creator of fanciful and larger-than-life ceramic megalodon and other shark teeth. Interest in his creations can be directed to: Foxtail Potters: [email protected] or by phone at 410-535-4349. Photo submitted by M. Ooookay…so, for a mere $5 you too can be attacked Smith. ☼ by a shark. Photo by S. Godfrey. ☼
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Dino Gasoline
Sinclair Seeing these ‘abandoned’ gas pumps in Pennsylvania sent me back to my childhood; I still Victoria Godfrey poses with the Sinclair loved their iconic Brontosaurus! It would be Brontosaurus. Photos by S. Godfrey. ☼ wonderful to have one of these on display at CMM (although they have little to no connection to the Miocene along Calvert Cliffs). Correction: In the September issue of The Ecphora, I included the following photo referring to it as a smooth green snake. It is in fact a rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus. Smooths are only in the mountains and have a shorter snout!
Many thanks to Jeremy F. Jacobs* for spotting my error and for sending in the correction!
*Collections Manager, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles I know that Brontosaurus is Apatosaurus, but for me, Smithsonian Institution the Sinclair dinosaur will always be a Brontosaurus! Washington, D.C. [email protected] ☼ Club website: http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/exhibits/paleontology-newsletter.php 17 The Ecphora December 2013
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The Ecphora is published four times a year 2013-2014 Names Email and is the official newsletter of the Calvert Marine Elected Museum Fossil Club. The Editor welcomes Officers & contributions for possible inclusion in the Volunteers* newsletter from any source. Submit articles, President John [email protected] news reports of interest to club members, field Nance trip reports, and/or noteworthy discoveries. All Vice- Grenda [email protected] opinions expressed in the newsletter are strictly those President Dennis of the authors and do not reflect the views of the club Treasurer Christa [email protected] or the museum as a whole. Copyright on items or Conant articles published in The Ecphora is held by Secretary Flo Strean N/A originating authors and may only be reproduced with Membership Pam Platt [email protected] the written permission of the editor or of the Chairperson author(s) of any article contained within. Editor* Stephen [email protected] Godfrey Editor’s Address: Fall Trip Robert [email protected] Stephen Godfrey Ph.D. Leader* Ertman Curator of Paleontology Calvert Marine Museum Spring Trip P.O. Box 97 Leader* Solomons, MD 20688
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