Look what i found

[FishEggs]

I was exploring what i thought was a lifeless storm run off creek behind my house with my son and discovered there is actually life in the water. There are at least 2 different types of fish but i only got pictures of the one type. Anyone know what it is? The largest i saw was ~6" but very few of them.

 

[Localzoo]

Depending on where you are could be darters, minnows, shiners.


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[skanda]

Where is this creek? Did you catch them with a dip net?

 

[Vinh2o]

Common Minnows. I grew up in Suitland, MD where Branch Ave & Southern ave meet right on the Southeast DC line. We use to go down the creek right there at the foot of the Suitland parkway and catch them by the 100's as feeder fish for out Jack Dempsey's, Oscars, Pikes, and Piranhas when I was growing up in the late 70's thru the mid 80's.


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[FishEggs]

Creek is in Marlton. I caught them with my 10" x8" aquarium net. The other fish had a light silvery body with dark speckles kind of like a pepper cory.
I also found some fossils and what looks like old coral. I'll post some pictures of them later.
Of course my 4 year old son was most interested in finding all the golf balls that wash down the creek.

 

[Localzoo]

Creek is in Marlton. I caught them with my 10" x8" aquarium net. The other fish had a light silvery body with dark speckles kind of like a pepper cory.
I also found some fossils and what looks like old coral. I'll post some pictures of them later.
Of course my 4 year old son was most interested in finding all the golf balls that wash down the creek.

Lol


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[AndyNarwhal]

What you got there are some creek chubs Semotilus atromaculatus.

 

[FishEggs]

Here are the fossils and old coral pics. One is of a vertebrae bone of some large animal; cow, horse, Dinosaur maybe.

 

[lkelly]

Of course my 4 year old son was most interested in finding all the golf balls that wash down the creek.

If you post pics of those, I can help identify them. There's a good chance that they will be of the family Titleist, Top Flight, Callaway, or Nike. You'll need to vent for an exact species name.

 

[FishEggs]

There were quite a few Callaway and Titleist that i was able to identify but the prize find was the rare Yellow colored Pinnacle.

 

[FishEggs]

Better pic of the shell fossil.

 

[FishEggs]

So i found out that the vertebra bone is from a medium-sized marine mammal. A porpoise or dolphin would fit this bill.

 

[tremper]

fossil in last photo looks to be a chesapectan jeffersonius..... aka, fossil scallop..... prob in the 2-10 million range, not so up on the strata in your neck of the woods..... though the fossil corals would lead me to believe the younger side of the estimate.

i've found similar corals with c. jeffersonious in the yorktown fformation..... down in yorktown va