Bakersfeild fossils.

We stopped by Bakersfield a couple weeks ago and searched for shark teeth. We found a total of over 47 fossilized teeth, pretty phenomenal considering we found every one of our shark teeth from just searching over the ground on one single hill! To the left is a picture of a shark tooth we found sticking out of the hill side. What a wonderful surprise, it turned out to be a "hooked-tooth mako", or isrus plana. This was the biggest shark tooth I found, measuring at a little more than 31/2 inches! actually quite big! Well we'll get this straight, these fossils actually aren't from the purisima formation, it is actually from the Mountain Silt Member of the Temblor Formation near Bakersfield California. But the people who know the location of the "sharktooth hill" site aren't very fond of telling it's location.

And here is a picture of just one of three drawers full of cataloged shark teeth!

Here I will list the names of, and how many of that kind I found: Myliobatis (bat ray)=13. Carcharhinus sp. (grey shark)=9. Hemipristis serra (Indian ocean shark)=1. Isrus Hastalis (big-tooth mako)=1. Isrus Plana (Hooked-tooth mako)=1,(tooth in pictures above). Galeocerdo Aduncus (tiger shark)=3. Squalus Occidentalis (dogfish shark)=2. Galeorhinus sp. (soupfin shark)=7. Isrus Desori (shortfin mako)=2. Squalodon errabunus (porpise)=3. And 2 unidentified teeth of some sort.