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Southeast, Virginia
Westmoreland SP VA
Fossil Beach at Horsehead Cliffs
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Shark teeth
FossilsAlso reported: ray plates, scallop and oyster shells.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Miocene Chesapeake Group cliffs on the tidal Potomac drop shark teeth and whale bone onto the state park beach
Long-running documented collecting with named trip accounts from Time Scavengers and fossil blogs; park permits surface collecting
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Actively collapsing cliffsTidal cutoff, steep trail descent
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