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I used to have a house at Lake Whitney. My dad and I found these one year when the lake was really low. Down by the dam on one of the shelves that gets exposed when it’s low. We found both together. Think real hard on what this shows and implies.

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This was found in a lake Whitney in Texas, not sure what this is either

I found this many years ago out by Lake Whitney in Texas near White Bluff. It is cretaceous, but I’ll have to look up the formation. I don’t know if it is possible to ID it. It is different from any of the other species I’ve found in the area.

I found this a while back in the lower Cretaceous. I'm not sure what it is. It looks like a fruit of some sort. I've never found anything like it. Mostly what I find are ammonites, gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods, corals and such. I have not totally cleaned it up, because I found these little nibs on the surface and I'm not sure if they're part of the structure or not. Also what I think is the top or stem area is very tough and I'd hate to ruin some fine feature if it's there. I'd like to know what it is supposed to look like before I finish it off. I'm a novice so I don't really know good techniques for cleaning off the stuff encrusting it. Hopefully I'll improve with practice. I'm eager to learn, because I've got a lot of cool fossils still encased in crud I'd like to remove if I knew a good way to go about it. It's about 2 cm in diameter. The first 2 shots I took on a mirror so you could see the top and bottom/side in one shot. Any help would be appreciated.

I found this clam a while back. The one side was pretty clean, but the other side and top were covered with something like mudstone. So I set about cleaning it up a little. I'm an amature wanna be so I didn't do that great of a job, but as I was cleaning off the mudstone like stuff I uncovered at least 3 other critters. I broke the fragile shell of creature # 2 attached to the top, before I realized it was another shell. I thought it was shell fragment in the mudstone. I uncovered creature # 3 a very tiny worm about 1 mm in diameter and maybe 2 cm long. I also uncovered creature # 4 a more robust worm about 6 mm in diameter. I'm not sure how long that one is, because I may have broken him in half before I realized he was there. I think it was wrapped around the clam on the top and side. There may be a 3rd worm down the side as well. I got distracted by something else and never finished cleaning it up. Anyway, can anyone tell me what type of clam this is? Can anyone tell if the worms are different species or is one just younger than the other? I don't think creature #2 is not really identifiable other than maybe a barnacle type or something. I don't know my creatures. I'm new at this.

I found this a few years ago walking through the countryside near Lake Whitney on what is now called Lake Whitney Ranch in Bosque county off of hwy or FM 56. The unique thing about this one was it was sitting at the base of a large tree in the woods. I guess the roots had pushed it up to the surface. I've got a dozen, maybe 2 dozen or more of numerous species, but I've never got an ID on any of them. This one may be hard to ID, because it has eroded away in places and has lichen growing on it.