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The July 24 2021 Parapuzosia sp. (for size reference)
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Parapuzosia bosei July 24, 2021 Austin Chalk (within austin city limits) -
In Central Texas you don't have to go very far to find fossils. But the Austin Chalk Formation is a little tricky finding good spots which are fairly fossiliferous. Fortunately, the Paleontological Society of Austin visits a couple of good spots and the fossiling was pretty decent this time, because we've had some good rains! This particular creek is really lovely, too....white limestone with green ferns and even some Mustang Grapevines! Although it was a hot day (as per the usual in Texas Summertime) the creek was at least shady and a bit cool and it felt great to stick my feet in the water t
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Ammonites and Nautiloids
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Name: Inoceramidae Age: Upper Cretaceous Formation: Austin Chalk Location: I 35 near Hillsboro, Texas -
I didn't even realized they found the Mosasaur at this Garland Duck Creek (creek, not a formation), but in the Austin Chalk formation. I live just two miles from location and walked on this creek several times. Creek is several miles long. This was a rare find. Here is the follow up video.
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While visiting family member in Central Texas, I couldn't resist stopping by roadcut next to the Interstate 35. Road crews are adding lanes so they were cutting lots of shoulder next to the highway embankments. I'm finding Inoceramus and giant clams measuring about 3 to 4 feet across. I have also seen similar giant clams in the DFW Austin Chalk layer, but this one looks almost intact.
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This is my best find to date and I would love your input and observations... I found this specimen in McKinney Texas (suburb north of Dallas) in late 2020. While my wife my was antique shopping, I went to a local housing development to look for fossils. To my surprise I found this beautiful tail fin in the Austin Chalk formation. It was in about a 300 lb boulder, but it was well worth the effort to salvage it. I have returned to the area to search for more sections, but after hours of searching I haven't found anything new. In the original boulder, I also found a suspected scale and a si
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Hello all! This is a little photo project I've been working on for a while. When I first started Fossil Hunting I was content to collect whatever. Then I was excited about Identifying what I was finding. The education continued and now I work to identify the geological formations I am collecting in and am able to know what fossils to look for in what areas. The Pocket Texas Geology website is invaluable for finding out the formation of a specific area (while not 100 percent accurate, it's pretty good). So I wanted to create a post that would help with Central Texas Cretaceous Fossil Identific
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Echies of Texas - (and MORE from West Texas! )(Part 8?)
JamieLynn posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Took a little trip out to West Texas last weekend. My parents have friends who have ranches out near Balmorhea (great to have friends with ranches...everyone should have friends who have ranches!). I knew the general area was one I had wanted to go hunting for echinoids in the Boracho Formation (some very special echinoids not found in my area). I did my research on Google maps and the Texas Geology website, hoping I could pinpoint the right roadcuts! The first one we stopped at (I thought was the right formation) turned out to be a different formation, but I found some cool little brachiopo- 11 replies
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I was driving north on Interstate 35 near Waxahachie, Texas this afternoon. Saw pile of rock debris that were up 60 feet high near the Interstate 35 service road. I couldn't resist passing by, so I parked near the service road and walked around the debris for any fossils. Well, most of the fossils I found are small to large Inceramous clams. Not too much spectacular, but the clam attached to the matrix were near complete. Some of these clams have pyrite rust stains on them. Formation is Austin Chalk (upper Cretaceous).
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I found this piece of rock with strange shape in the rock quarry nearby Interstate 35 between Temple and Waco, Texas. I did't see much other fossils other than this piece. Wonder what this is? Formation is on Austin Chalk.
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I'm trying to identify a fossil I found inside a chunk of Austin Chalk or in the "Fau" Cretaceous layer in collin county. I believe it might be some sort of coral. I am leaving it for now hoping to determine what it is before trying to fully extract it. Might not ever try to remove it. Any ideas or opinions? would be interesting to see what others think. It appears to have a foot then a thin shell like skin with a scalloped edge at the base growing horizontally from the "foot" like a shute or pod. Found in creek collin county North of Dallas Texas
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Is this called ammonite or another name for these specie? I found these at Dallas Trinity river grey clay / shale layer. I think these are upper cretaceous Austin chalk formation.
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I found this fossil at DFW creek tonight. Was at the lower Cretaceous Dallas Austin Chalk sediment. I saw someone posted this similar one on this fossil forum, but forgot the name of it.
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Found a curious circular thing on the bottom of the creek. It looks like a circular coral that I saw picture on the Internet once. Creek bed is around middle cretaceous period.
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I keep finding these that resembles bones in the Dallas creeks last few months. I have dozen of these possible limb bones. They look like small swamp reptile limb bones that may once belonged to crocks or marine reptiles when Dallas was coastal swamp or marsh. Compare to other rocks, these bones are also very hard to break. Could these be possible reptile limb bones of crocks or unknown reptile feet or leg bones?
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I found these two in the Dallas area creeks today. It was washed down from upstream lying with other creek rocks. First one looks like coral and second one looks like rudists. I will let someone ID this for me since I'm new to marine fossils.
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It’s that time of year... Ancient Marine Fossils Unearthed in Plano, nbcdfw.com
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Donations for Mosasaur Resarch
FossilAddicted1991 posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Ive recently started donating some important Mosasaur finds of mine to Mike Poclyn at SMU for his continuious research of Mosasaurs. I donated Russellsaurine premaxilla from the Austin Chalk formation in a creek in Dallas County and then a rare Halisaurine dentary which is the only Halisaruine skull piece Mike has ever seen from the North Sulphur river. Mike is truly a awesome guy and I am looking forward to continue working with him in contributing rare finds for research.- 4 replies
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Found in Atco formation in Texas, Coniacian age. Looking in my Welton Farish book and I can’t find anything similar. Maybe spines of some sort? Kind of looks like teeth and kind of not. Lost on this one. Scale is in mm.
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Found this digging through my micro gravel. It comes from the late Cretaceous, bottom of the Austin chalk, top of Eagle ford, Atco formation area. It is 3mm in length and I would say 1ish in width. Internal mold of something, crustacean maybe? Really not sure.
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A few weeks ago my mother, Stella (dog), and I went to a old-reliable heteromorph site in the Atco. After I dragged all my equipment to the part of the site that I was going to work, she went walking with Stella to look at some of the check-dams full of brought in Edwards limestone, chicken wire bags full of the brought in matrix put in the ditches for sediment control. In 2017 while we were at the same Atco site she was looking at a dumped pile of the Edwards and found a rare cidarid (see thread here) that compares well with Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) hudspethensis. The sight of seeing that
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I found this Phlycticrioceras trinodosum heteromorph specimen in June of 2018 whilst hunting the middle/upper Coniacian Atco formation. It is the largest fragment of this species that I am aware of, having a whorl height of 51 mm as opposed to 47 mm of the largest fragment I've seen published. This genus is a bigger, rarer, and (mostly) younger cousin of Allocrioceras. I sent pictures of it to Keith Minor and he pointed out that there was also an echinoid sticking out of the specimen, something which I had totally missed! With much of the echinoid still stuck in the living chamber it is hard t
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Unknown fossil. Found just below a tidal deposit and above a deep water lime deposit. In this layer there are a lot of good sized amonites, and a smattering of pelecypods and scallops and oysters and protocardia and urchins that become much more common just up the rock sequence. Just a bit deeper are fairly common trace fossils of burrowing shells.
