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From the album: Texas Finds
Scientific Name: Baculite Found: North Central Texas Shoreline Date Found: 2013 Formation: Alluvium / Eagle Ford Size: Various -
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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Help me ID this Find from a creek bed in texas! Possibly fish scales?
Taterageous posted a topic in Fossil ID
I collected this fossil many years ago as a kid, from a very rocky creek bed in Gorman, Texas. North Central Texas. No idea as to the geological age of the area. The "scales" have a slightly curved face that rises from the center to the sides, but not front and back. They also seem to be leaned on top of another similar to how normal scales are, all pointing the same direction. Almost looks as though the back side of the specimen has bone fragments visible? To my untrained eye, this what I assumed. From my own research, so far I assume it could be from a fish, similar to Lepidote? I'm an amature, so I'm really not sure. Any help identifying would be very appreciated!- 5 replies
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I found this bivalve yesterday while fossil hunting North Central Cooke County near Red River. These area has mixed Walnut Clay, Goodland and Antlers Sand formations. Closest similar one I found on the Internet was Gyrostrea from Commanche Peak formation in Hood county, but I doubt it.
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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 any of the other rudists that I have found in the Edwards. So far in my research I have found there to be 4 predominant rudist genera in the Edwards, which are listed in the tags. From pictures online I can't seem to definitively match this fragment to any of them, but it at least resembles some caprinid rudists I have seen online that are not from the Edwards. I know there must be many more rudist genera in the Edwards that I am unaware of, so I am hoping anyone more familiar with rudists than me could at least narrow it down to more than just a likely caprinid. The specimen is 3.75 cm long (Fig. 1), 4.2 cm in diameter at its concave end (Fig. 20), and 4.1 cm in diameter at its flat end (Fig. 22). I really know next to nothing about them so any help is appreciated. If anyone wants to compare this with the many other rudists that I have found from these Edwards dams, see the excessive amount of pictures in this thread. Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
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Found this symmetrical piece, almost clam-like around the area we typically find sandstone/clam mash and texigraphea. This piece has an odd weight with symmetrical fading of "peppery" or pin-prick black dots. The piece also has bone-like pitting in areas where there is a "line" or streak of lighter mineral. Puzzled. Here is a description of the area: The surface geology of the North Texas region is mainly limestone, shale, clay and sandstone that was deposited during the middle portion of the Cretaceous Period (110-90 million years ago locally). During most of the Cretaceous Texas was covered with a shallow to moderate depth sea that extended at times from Canada to the Gulf so the fossils will be of marine animals and plant life. There WERE brief periods when the sea level was low enough that dry land was exposed and the dinosaurs roamed. Areas to the west are "Pennsylvanian" age (300 mya) and "Permian" age (280 mya).
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From the album: Texas Finds
Scientific Name: Baculite Found: North Central Texas Shoreline Date Found: 2013 Formation: Alluvium / Eagle Ford Size: Various -
From the album: Texas Finds
Scientific Name: Baculite Found: North Central Texas Shoreline Date Found: 2013 Formation: Alluvium / Eagle Ford Size: Various