Bakersfield CA: Ernst Quarries, Sharktooth Hill

Where: US West · North America · approx. 35.45, -118.9 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: private fee quarries in the Sharktooth Hill bone bed, a Miocene marine lagerstatte known to science since 1853

What turns up: Miocene shark teeth, desmostylus and whale teeth, whale vertebrae, ray plates

Access: Licensed / permit.

Private fee dig, about $40 per person cash or check by reservation; you keep finds except scientifically significant skulls or articulated skeletons, which go to research

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.