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On Tuesday, I made a trip back to the East Texas creek where I had found micro teeth last month. This creek is a Kincaid Formation outcrop. I had found the one and only productive area there just before I had to leave last time, so wanted to explore it better. Rain threatened the entire time I was there Tuesday, but it didn't really rain hard until I had gotten back home. Unlike my last time there, I found very little soft matrix on top of the limestone this time. At first, I wondered if it was just because our dry spell lately had hardened everything, but the more I explored, the more I came to realize that most of the softer matrix had just already been chiseled off. It's a reminder of how hard it is to find spots that aren't over hunted here in Texas. I didn't find many teeth at all this time, but brought home some suspicious matrix from where I did find a few teeth. I just finished going through that matrix, and sure enough, it did have a few more teeth in it. Here is what I got from the trip, including what I found in the matrix.
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I made a trip to a creek in East Texas today and brought home a nice collection of very small teeth. It was the first time I've ever had success finding fossils less than an hour drive from home, and I was pretty pleased about that. This was a Kincaid Formation outcrop. The teeth came from a shell hash that was on top of some very hard limestone. Some of the matrix which contained the teeth was the same gray as the limestone, and some of it was a tan color. I looked at a lot of identical looking matrix which had nothing but shell fragments in it, but once I found teeth, there were more teeth nearby. I had to chisel into the matrix to find teeth, so as I searched for teeth, I just kept tossing matrix pieces into my backpack to take home. So now I have a bunch of matrix to go through. I'm looking forward to doing that in my air conditioned house rather than outside in today's 98 degree temperatures. LOL. I made an early day of it after it got so hot, heading home before 1:00 in the afternoon. I'll post a reply after I've gone through all the matrix. Here are some matrix pieces I brought home. The upper two are the same gray as the limestone they were on top of. But there was also some tan matrix mixed in, like those two bottom pieces. Both had teeth in them. Two teeth in the matrix on this rock. The top one was still attached to the matrix, but the bottom one was loose inside a hole that it looked like someone chiseled. So much for my secret spot. Some of the matrix I brought home had teeth that weren't too hard to spot. Here are the 20 teeth I've found so far. I'm going to have to do some research to identify some of them. The Kincaid Formation and Paleocene period are both new to me. The surprise of the day was a single small ptychodus tooth I found. Since Kincaid is 66 to 56 mya, and ptychodus supposedly went extinct 85 mya in the Western Interior Sea, I didn't expect to see any today. But this one was in the same matrix the other teeth came from. It appears I found a tooth from one of the last of the Mohicans. Does anyone here have experience hunting Kincaid? If I thought last week's teeth were small, then these teeth are REALLY small. But I had a blast finding them. And I have lots more matrix to go through. I'll check back after I've been through it. Thankfully, it's nowhere near as hard as most matrix I seem to bring home.
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
