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Bill Heim

@bill-heim
Northern Virginia
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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 22 hours, 46 minutes ago

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    Striatolamia macrota. I have seen one pushing 3 inches and I have one that is over 2. So yes.

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 day, 10 hours ago

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    need more view angles

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 day, 10 hours ago

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    no scale in image

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 day, 10 hours ago

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    Need a closeup. Awful small for a great white, although there is no scale in the image to be sure

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 day, 10 hours ago

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    Bad lighting on the picture. Needs to be better lighted and closer

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 3 days ago

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    Duplicate of 96270

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 4 days, 4 hours ago

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    It looks like a worn piece of shell to me. I am not 100% ruling out a tooth but it doesn’t look what I would expect.

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 5 days, 1 hour ago

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    Striatolamia

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 5 days, 4 hours ago

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    Jaekelotodus trigonalis

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 5 days, 4 hours ago

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    Probably a worn piece of a megalodon

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 5 days, 4 hours ago

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    Too worn to positively ID, perhaps a Carcharhinus? of some species.

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 5 days, 5 hours ago

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    Where was it found?

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 5 days, 5 hours ago

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    Not enough remains to tell what it came from.

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 week ago

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    Sorry just a round river worn rock

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 week ago

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    Did you say granite? Fossils are never found in granite. Granite forms under the earth out of molten magma.

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    Nyla Alisia and Profile picture of Bill HeimBill Heim are now friends 1 week, 1 day ago

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    Bill Heim posted an update in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? 1 week, 1 day ago

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    Sometimes I get postings where the person identified it as dinosaur head or a bird head or a crocodile head or a bird head.  In the news one hears of a mummified dinosaur being found.  This is literally more than a million to one find.  You have better odds playing the lottery.  For every mummified dinosaur there are millions of bones found rep…[Read more]

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    Bill Heim posted an update in the group Group logo of What is it?What is it? 1 week, 1 day ago

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    Much of my time, unfortunately is telling people that what they think is a fossil is just a rock.  A key to identifying something as a fossil is that it will have a recognizable pattern or structure.  Rocks can have bumps or holes but there is no pattern to them, just random bumps and holes.  To illustrate this think of finding part of an old ru…[Read more]

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 week, 1 day ago

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    rock

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    Bill Heim posted a new activity comment 1 week, 1 day ago

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    An odd shaped rock

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