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Greenville NC

Green Mill Run creek gravels

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: urban creek cutting reworked Cretaceous, Miocene and Pliocene beds, a classic mixed-age shark tooth wash

Decades of NC Fossil Club field trips and Fossilguy trip reports with mosasaur and shark finds from this exact creek

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Flashy urban creek after rainBroken glass in gravels, slick clay bottom

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