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I've had this limestone cast (?) on my back porch for a while now. I picked it up on a walk below my house, and thought it different than the various other oddities I pick up from time to time. I was wondering if this was perhaps some sort of ammonite cast. Any thoughts? Thank you.
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From the album: Austin Chalk
Ptychodus latissimus, Travis Co. Cretaceous Mar, 2022 Originally found in a gravel deposit. Formation of origin is unknown. It could be due in part to heavy weathering, but the tooth appears to show signs of digestion. Also thank you to @LSCHNELLE for IDing this guy as well as many other teeth!-
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I am hoping to get some opinions on a couple of pieces recently found in a dry lake bed. They were found about a foot apart among a group of smaller fragments in roughly a 20 foot circular area. Their unusual color and texture (for this area) is what drew my attention. I'll attempt to add a few photos. I have more if needed. Location: Austin Chalk - Rock unit Kau - Period Cretaceous - Epoch Gulfian
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3 New Spots; 30 Days; 300 Million Combined Years of Mosasaurs, Sharks, and Mysteries to Discover
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Apologies for the dramatic title. I thought it sounded cool and stuck with it even though 90 + 80 + 80 is only 250 . Anyways... This past 30 days, I decided to make it a point to check out some new spots. I won't be living in Austin soon, so I thought it would be good to branch out and scout some new locations with potential. I've found lots of creek-worn mosasaur bits and pieces over the past year. I'm ready to find things in situ, and, one day, something articulated. It's a tall order, I know, but I feel like it's the next step and really the ultimate goal I've always had. So, th -
Found this one while on my morning walk creek walk with my dogs. Recent heavy rains, so I'm guessing it washed out of the bank within the last week. It was just sitting on the gravel bar. I have another post with a recent find that the group identified as “Mosasaur indet. cf. Tylosaurus sp.” This tooth felt noticeably heavier than my other find. It weighs 16.1g on my coffee scale. Last pic included of other finds. I'm thinking T. proriger, but am new to this and would love to know more about it. @Jared C @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon
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Hey y'all! I am a geology/paleontology student at Texas A&M and I am researching the Austin Chalk. I was wondering if anyone had any good Austin localities near the Waco/Temple area or anywhere near 35 all the way up to Dallas. I’ve researched a few old papers and found a couple of spots but I figured this forum could be a good outcrop resource as well. Would love some help! Thanks so much.
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I have been hunting the Basal Atco member of the Austin group in Central Texas for about 7 years. Others say that it is the uppermost part of the Eagle Ford. I don't doubt that it is some type of erosional zone involving the two. I have found hundreds of fossils in it. Most of them are beautiful reddish brown color. Most of them have been damaged somewhat by paleo-erosion before they were left in their final state. Many Basal Atco fossils are very interesting to me, because I can't find them anywhere else. My first area to hunt back in 2015 was a lot of fun. An exposed bluff where
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The July 24 2021 Parapuzosia sp. (for size reference)
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From the album: Proudest finds
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For whatever reason, I used to completely dismiss the Austin chalk as a formation of any interest. I viewed it almost through the same lens that I view the Edwards formation, as if it was some barren uninteresting hinderance that gets in the way of cooler formations. Accidentally finding a large Parapuzosia ammonite in it once changed that a bit, but for the most part I still ignored it... Turns out I was just looking in the wrong places, and had very little understanding of its members. @LSCHNELLE recently explained a lot of it better to me, and so equipped with new knowledge I de
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For whatever reason, I used to completely dismiss the Austin chalk as a formation of any interest. I viewed it almost through the same lens that I view the Edwards formation, as if it was some barren uninteresting hinderance that gets in the way of cooler formations. Accidentally finding a large Parapuzosia ammonite in it once changed that a bit, but for the most part I still ignored it... Turns out I was just looking in the wrong places, and had very little understanding of its members. @LSCHNELLE recently explained a lot of it better to me, and so equipped with new knowledg
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With the end of the semester approaching, school has picked up and I have been too busy to embark on many adventures. When my schedule finally cleared up one afternoon following a brief rain in Austin, I jumped at the opportunity to do a bit of exploring. One of my goals right now is to check out new parts of the creek I hunt on. Scanning through my list of potential spots, I decided to try and be the first one out to a very promising location. Like my previous hunts, this place ran through the Ozan formation, so my expectations were set on some nice Cretaceous specimens as well as the usual n
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I found this rock in Austin, TX in Waller Creek next to an exposed outcrop of the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Austin Chalk. I’m wondering if it’s a mosasaur vertebra or humerus? Several mosasaurs have been found in creeks nearby, and the wavy pattern in the rock reminds me of fossilized bone. I’ve included three photos of the rock that I found in Austin, and a photo from Otero et al. (2016) of a Maastrichtian mosasaur right humerus (scale bar = 50 mm) that looks similar.
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Can anybody ID what this is? I found this several years ago in the North Texas creeks. It has some spots on the top and broken shells mixed with it. Could that round dark spots be coral or bryozoans?
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From the album: Austin Chalk
Pycnodonte aucella, oysters abundant in the chalk. -
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From the album: Austin Chalk
Pycnodonte aucella, oysters abundant in the chalk.-
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Pycnodonte aucella, oysters abundant in the chalk. -
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Inoceramids were very large clams that are abundant in the chalk. Often you only find portions like this, with telltale calcite prisms (seen here as vertical lines) which composed their shells. -
From the album: Austin Chalk
The Austin chalk as its name suggests is primarily composed of chalk beds with interspersed marls. Here you can see the transition from chalk to marl (light towards the top, grey towards the bottom). I at first hoped this was the Eagle Ford contact horizon (which is a shale with cool shark teeth), but alas not. -
Austin Chalk Formation, bivalvia found near Hillsboro, Texas 180 MM in length and 130 mm width. -
From the album: Austin Chalk
Vertebrates are generally rare in the Austin chalk, especially in the upper portions. Since this was not found in the formation, I can't say for sure where in the column it came from. Based on the surrounding exposures, it likely came from the upper Austin chalk which is very unusual and warrants further investigation upstream... -
My family and I love to explore creeks on the weekends. We've found many fossilized oyster shells before, but this is by far the largest specimen to date.
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My next door neighbor, Jim, was kind enough to take me to my cataract surgery today, and after I took him out to breakfast, we had a little time to kill before my follow up appointment. On a whim, I suggested an Austin Chalk creek stomp since current drought conditions wouldn't result in muddy shoes. It was a fortuitous move, as the creek outperformed expectations. The bedrock there is slow to erode, so I've rested the site for a few years. We got 2 nice Eutrephoceras nautiloids. The one that Jim is posing with below is now cut to a nice pedestaled display piece wh
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Bivalves- Scallops
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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