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Purse State Park, Charles County, MD

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth

Also reported: ray plates, shells.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Paleocene Aquia Formation shark teeth along the Potomac River beach

Documented Paleocene shark-tooth beach on the Potomac, noted in Mid-Atlantic fossil guides.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Tides, mud, poison ivy

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