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A few weeks after my mother found her most recent cidarid in an Edwards formation check dam, I took a few minutes to swing by the same dam to see for myself what else could be found. Within minutes I dug up a cylindrical fossil that for a few weeks puzzled me due to its resemblance to a belemnite phragmocone. Then on Wednesday night I went to the DPS meeting and afterwards met briefly with Professor Andy Gale and showed him this specimen. He identified it as a rudist and immediately corroborated that with another DPS member familiar with rudists. What confused me is that it doesn't look like a
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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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A friend found this interesting rock in Johnson County, Iowa. Does anybody have an opinion on how it came to be?
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I'm back with a few more small finds: A. Another brachiopod(?) that I found in the driveway gravel (supposedly from the Slade formation). Looks a bit different than my others (the ridges aren't as deep and it's more shiny). The rock is 1" long. B. An oddly-textured rock from the creek (Pikeville formation, though the rock may have originated from elsewhere). I noticed a couple shapes on it that might be fossils (maybe crinoid or worm burrows). The rock measures about 6.5cm wide and 4cm tall. C. Poor picture, but here's another from the driveway. I've seen a few pieces with some of the
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I took another trip to the creek by my house today since the water had finally gone down. I found a few fossils, some that I could easily identify as Artisia (one of the most-common fossils here), but there were a couple other oddities as well that may or may not be fossils (though I'm not going to be posting most of them). This was the main thing that caught my eye: I know this area isn't a "true marine deposit," but this thing's resemblance to some polished ammonite fossils that my dad got me last Christmas is uncanny. Is it actually an ammonite (or related species) or just a suggestive r
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I saw this in a mudslide next to my house and immediately thought Trilobite (though I highly doubt that's what it actually is since I've been told this area isn't a "true marine deposit"). It may actually be a rounded-off Artisia (maybe even Calamites) or just something geological. It's only 2.5cm long. I didn't take pictures of the other side because I didn't see much going on, but let me know if you need one. Help is appreciated as usual!
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Thanks for all the help so far, guys! I feel that I'm slowly getting better at IDing fossils. Here's some new stuff (well, some of it I've had for a while and just never took pics to ID them). A. This one was actually my very first find. I noticed the cylinder-like shape sticking out of the driveway and dug it up. I'm nearly certain that it's a fossilized tree (or tree-like plant), but it doesn't have a distinct texture like the others I've found. Any ideas? It's about 8.5 cm around. - - - B. I found this one a few days ago in the driveway. The texture (most noticeable on the right) re
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Would like to know if anyone could tell me what THIS might be. Found in Hill County near Covington Texas
