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PCS Phosphate Mine (Lee Creek), Aurora, NC. Fossil Shark Teeth Hunting in North Carolina. Identification, Tips, and Hunting Trips.
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Fossils of Aurora, North Carolina - The PCS Mine and the Aurora Fossil Museum. If You Enjoy This Content,. Please Share This Page:. Aurora, NC Weather:. Aurora, NC Pages:. All About the Aurora, NC site. Identification: Shark Fossils found at Aurora. Identification: All Fossils found at Aurora. Fossil I.D. Sheets for NC. View Collecting Trip Reports from Aurora, NC. Printable Identification Fossil Sheets for Vertebrates from Aurora, NC. Megalodon Sharks: All The Facts. Megalodon Size vs Tooth Size. After ...
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Aurora Fossil Museum » Megalodon
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). Ebenezer Emmons, 1858, p.223. Today, over 150 years later, C. megalodon. Still fascinates. This reverence has led to C. megalodon. Being designated the State Fossil of North Carolina by the General Assembly of North Carolina Session Law 2013-189, HB-830. Come visit the Aurora Fossil Museum to learn more about this amazing animal! A typical C. megalodon.
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Aurora Fossil Museum » Vertebrate Fossils
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). A Whale of a Challenge. Few of the countless individual animals of the past have been preserved to us as fossils.". Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1966. A key detail that makes the PotashCorp-Aurora Phosphate Mine. 149; Birds: 112. 149; Fish: 104. 149; Mammals: 63. 149; Reptiles: 12. Text by C. Crane, 2015. Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Caro...
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Aurora Fossil Museum » Shark Dentitions
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). The Aurora Fossil Museum houses comparisons of modern and ancient shark dentitions (jaws) in the Dentition Hall. The fossil species on display in the Dentition Hall are representative (actual or casts) examples of species found in the PotashCorp-Aurora Mine. There are 3 basic types of shark dentitions on display:. This type of dentition consists of very sle...
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Aurora Fossil Museum » Shark Fossils
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). The Chondrichthyes (kon-drik-thee-s), are fish that have a cartilaginous skeleton (similar to the cartilage of a human nose and ear) and five or more gill slits on each side of their body. The fossil remains of nearly 50 species. We invite you to visit the Aurora Fossil Museum to learn about these amazing creatures. From the menacing beast MEGALODON. 149; L...
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Aurora Fossil Museum » History
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). Pre-1880s, the Native American record:. Post-1880s, European settlement:. The area now being mined has been in operation since the 1960s. Changing hands over the years, from Texas Gulf Sulfur (TGS), to Texasgulf, Inc. (Tg), to PCS Phosphate, to PotashCorp-Aurora. The mission of the mining activities has remained the same. To produce high quality phospha...
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Aurora Fossil Museum » Invertebrates
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). The PotashCorp-Aurora Phosphate Mine has produced an immense invertebrate assemblage. Invertebrate fossils are very important to scientific studies for they are key fossils in the interpretation of the environment of deposition and stratigraphic sequences. The invertebrates discovered in the neighboring phosphate mine consist of:. 149;Include bivalves (clam...
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Aurora Fossil Museum » Whale of a Challenge
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Shark Fossils ▸. Cetacean Fossils ▸. Whale of a Challenge. Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Local History (1880 - present). Local History (Pre 1880). Whale of a Challenge. A Whale of a Challenge. Originally recovered by a sharp-eyed dragline operator at PotashCorp-Aurora, this 8x8-foot block of Yorktown clay containing a partial baleen whale sat untouched for many years. Based on the data from the vertebrae and ribs, the whale is estimated to have been between 35 and 40 feet in length! 149;With the assis...
