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Lisa and Sean Tohill - We own a fossil quarry located in the Sharktooth Hill area of Bakersfield, California. Dedicated to collecting and preserving fossils

California, United States
Joined August 2012
Nice section of Vertebra maybe belonging to one of the dolphin species found in the sharktooth hill bonebed. When the weather cools I’ll be back to look for more😊
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Thank you… I didn’t notice the object below in it till after I was checking out all the photos. It’s probably a helicopter, but fun to think of it as something other worldly🤔
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Replying to @Maranatha7774
Blood moon and Flash Gordon’s rocket below🚀
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#fossilfriday 9 fossil mako shark teeth ranging from 2” - 2 7/8” and 1 pathological megalodon tooth found in the quarry a few months back.
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#fossilfriday Some nice field collecting finds while walking about on the quarry after the rain from last month.
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#Fossilfriday #fossil mako shark tooth found in the quarry with an interesting pathology. Rare and fun to find😄
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#Fossilfriday nice 15” section of what looks like a dolphin mandible. Will post an update if we find more🤞
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#FossilFriday 3 1/16” hastalis (extinct mako) fossil #shark tooth. More rare of a find than a #Megalodon tooth at the quarry. It’s laying on the chunk of matrix that it was found in along with a 1 3/4” mako lower tooth.
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White Whale Quarry retweeted
Here's another writeup on our recent paper on #Panamanian 🇵🇦 Miocene #odontocetes!! @paleoAldo @Paleodeg #MarineMammalMonday
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The World is changed by your example, not by your opinion. ❤
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#FossilFriday Treasures from the #Sharktooth Hill bonebed. Matrix piece find with 3” #Megalodon tooth, rib bone section, & vertebrae. On the back side leatherback turtle scute and desmostylus tooth section.
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Fossils are the only direct evidence for the evolutionary history of humans and are crucial for any understanding of evolution, which is the central idea of all biology. Paleontology isn't peripheral; it's central. Everything is paleontology. Happy #NationalFossilDay! 🔎🌎
Replying to @Pteroterror
Skippy running out my back door
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Our new paper is published today in @ScienceAdvances on a full-body 3D model of the extinct #megalodon, revealing unprecedented swimming & prey intake abilities. Here, a 🧵 on how we did this (1/17) dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ab…
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#Fossil Friday while checking out one of the hillside walls in our quarry, I discovered these pinniped flipper bones weathering out. While removing the section of matrix containing the bones I noticed there was more bone going into the hill. Would be great if it was all there😁
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