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Cooper River
Charleston S.C.
June 6th-8th, 2008

photos by: Sandy, Rick, and Jerry

Here are a few of the specimens we collected on the bottom...

Box turtle shell fragment, pleistocene epoch.

Very cool set of fused vertebrae. It is unusual to find the verts together, especially in the river. I have not identified these yet.

Same as above.

Fossil coprolite, possibly alligator? You will notice that some of these specimens look wet, they are not. I found a location in the river that was covered in sand, the sand was blowing off the fossils. I think the sand must have had a polishing effect on the fossils from that location. All the pieces I collected from this site look polished when dried.

Whale inner ear.

Above pics: large whale inner ear bone.

To give you an idea of how large the big ear is. The one on the right is the typical size we find in the 2-3 inch range.

Ballast stone from an old ship.

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