The North Sulfur River finally got some rain last week, and I headed out there yesterday morning to see what I could find. I was hoping there had been enough sun that it wasn’t still a muddy mess, but that wasn’t the case. It was a tough slog, hiking through all that mud. It made fossils tough to spot too, and I didn’t find a lot. But I still enjoyed my day in the river. This photo shows what much of the riverbed looked like. Are those footprints from a large bird or small dinosaur?

Some in situ photos from the day. That last fossil wasn’t too tough to spot.

This mosasaur vert was the find of the day. It’s smaller, and not in as good of shape as the big one I found earlier this year, but I still thought it was a beauty. Here are four views of it.

This second mosasaur vert has had material split off of it, on both sides. It makes you wonder just how many mosasaur verts disintegrate to the point of being unrecognizable as they tumble on these gravel bars.

At the very far end of where I hike in this part of the river is a spot on a gravel bar with some better washed tiny gravel. I always do some kneepad hunting in this spot. It’s been a good spot to find teeth. But the slow slog through yesterday’s mud made me arrive at this spot so late, it was really past time to turn around and head back. So I only hunted on kneepads for a short time. But I still found two teeth. Even when I spend a lot of time on kneepads in the NSR, I still never seem to find more than two teeth the same day. So I’m calling yesterday’s short kneepad hunt a success.

I found two teeth, four hamulus worm tubes, and I’m not sure what that other piece is. It looks like it may be two tiny fish verts stuck together.

Here is the shark tooth. I haven’t tried to ID it yet. It is certainly in better shape than most of the shark teeth I find at NSR. Both cusplets are intact.

Here is the enchodus fang. It’s small, but more complete than most of the enchodus teeth I find.