DIVING FOR
FOSSILS
Local divers unearth FOSsils embedded in river sediments holding 900 million years of history
20 million years ago, a Megalodon Shark lost a tooth in Mesosoic COastal Georgia
the 7 inch tooth sank to the sandy floor of an ancient ocean.
Tybee island was under hundreds of feet of water
tybee pier
&
Pavilion
desoto beach
hotel
Tybee
post
theater
Tybee island
marine science
center
North beach
South End
Huc-a-poo's
tybean
Stingray's
admiral's
inn
Heavy River sediments
covered the tooth
minerals Fossilized and replaced the tooth's dentin
years later...
dredging of our rivers
dug up many fossils
onto the riverbeds
such as our megalodon tooth
diver
doug
wow! great find!
Diver Doug DUch discovers the tooth on the bed of the wilmington and Skidaway River
the georgia coast's fossils range from the pliocene era to the eocene era
many exciting
speicies have been discovered!
some of these species consist of...
could be 13ft at the shoulder,22,000 pounds, and live up to 70 years!
columbian mammoth
Unlike its cousin, the Wooly Mammoth, the Columbian mammoth did not have much fur. These animals spent most of their time eating thousands of pounds of food.
we are the ancestors of the african, and asian elephant!
giant ground sloth
herbivores, standing at 20 feet tall, weighed 3 to 5 tons, and is a cousin to the smaller sloths currently living in the rainforests of central and South America.
a preserved skeleton can be found on skidaway island
known
as"the walking whale"
it is likely that all modern whales descended from Georgiacetus, through the basilosaurids.
georgia
a species of advanced proto-whale previously unknown to science, was discovered in east Georgia in 1983.
in 1983!
georgiacetus
discovered
in
considered to be the largest shark, and fish to ever lived.
The word megalodon, a compound of Greek root words, means “giant tooth.”
megalodon
Studies suggest they ranged from about 66,000 pounds to more than 143,000 pounds, females being larger than males.
the largest megalodon was about 59 feet long!
saber tooth tiger
thse cats could open thir mouths up to 120 degrees.
lions can only open their mouth 60 degrees!
Their 8 inch long, upper canine teeth were incredibly sensitive and were soley used to make the killing bite to their prey
the largest sea turtle to ever exist!
they were approxomitly 12ft long!
a giant extinct species of sea turtle known from fossilized remains found in South Dakota
archelon
you are now a fossil expert!
get out there and find your own peices of history
A Special Thank You,
Julia bremer,
Local fossil diver
