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Hi everyone, I have been interested in reptiles since I was a kid, particularly finding them in the field and photographing them. Mostly catch and release. This led me to fossils coincidentally, but I really only became very interested in fossils near the end of 2022. So I have a collection built from my hikes in the last 10 months or so. I also joined the DPS (dallas paleo society) a few days ago. I’ve attached a few finds from yesterday: a shoe clam from a construction site and a couple of oxytropidoceras from a local spot near my current home in Burleson TX. I also have a small collection of various echinoids and nautilus, plus countless ammonites, including some I’ve learned aren’t that common. Looking forward to learning and seeing what everyone is finding!

Crinoid calyx or echinoid? Found in gravel with Ordovician-Devonian fossils. About 2cm across at the widest point. Druzy coating over the fossil which seems to be an external mould. In orange jasper. Thanks so much!

Found in Stroud, Glous, UK Its very faint, but I think I can see 6 segments from the top view (image 2), but it also might be my imagination. The piece of rock is quite regular shaped, almost a perfect dome-shape. It does have a bulge on one segment, which to me looks like its excess rock that I could attempt to clean off... but also mixed in there might be part of the better preserved outer-shell as I can see what appear to be patterns emanating from the centre... either that or they are bits of other fossils that got stuck inside this one. Bottom: Top: Side:

Hello all, Found a couple of very nice Cretaceous fossils in Limburg (in water). Age: 72-68 mya/73-68 mya (late late Campanian - early Maastrichtian) and/or around 68 mya (if we only focus on de 'Kalksteen van Vijlen' from the Gulpen Formation). One source says 72.1 (± 0.6) million years ago (late Campanian). Thus 72.1 (± 0.6) million years ago till 68 mya (Kalksteen van Vijlen). One source states that the Vijlen 5 Member (boreholes in Gulpen and Crapoel) have a age of around 69.8-69.3 mya. So its possible that the fossils are also of this age. During this time, Limburg was covered by a shallow sea (a Cretaceous sea). This sea also covered Germany and most parts of Europe. The climate must have been warm and/or tropic and the animals were sometimes similar like the ones in the Western Interior Seayway, but different! (I believe no Xiphactinus etc.). Large Mosasaurs were also present (like Mosasaurus hoffmannii (Mantell, 1829). The following fossils are shown: -Echinocorys scutata (Leske, 1778). A near complete one and one complete plus two fragments; -Belemnites (rostra). Species: Belemnitella sp. and Belemnella (Pachybelemnella) obtusa (Schulz, 1979). More information: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krijtzee https://www.dinoloket.nl/en/stratigraphic-nomenclature/gulpen-formation