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I was wondering if anyone could help with some NSR IDs? I also have one item that looks like a tooth from POC. It is Item 1. All other items are from the North Sulphur River. Item 1. Possible tooth? Item 2. Calcium nondual? Item 3. Pleistocene turtle? It is extremely thick and hard. Item 4. Some have speculated it as turtle plastron bone or Plesiosaurus paddle bone. Item 5. Some type of Geological crystal nondual? Item 6. Coprolite or just rock? Item 7.
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Colorful Cretaceous shells and multiple Inoceramus species (I think) please help with Id's
Lone Hunter posted a topic in Fossil ID
Had a blast last week busting up marl in the creek with Rockwood's help . I was amazed to find a chunky plate filled with beautiful shells in addition to gobs of gastropods in the area and Gryphea. Got thrown off trying to ID by color duh, finally shape of striped ones clicked, flat sides, Inoceramus sp.? The tiny brown one Inoceramus cuvieri? And the little round ones pinnaeformis? The tip is broke off one but they are all the same. Limestone Inoceramus maybe labiatus or sp.? So not sure about Gryphea, 2 are in piece with the big shells and one of them is round, the other right underneath it, last is the big black/silver with both valves. It's hard for me to distinguish some things without finding a good match for comparison. Really enjoyed prepping these and wondering how uncommon it is to find this good preservation? Appreciate any input! Hope pics come out in order.
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This might be as interesting as it gets as far as worm tubes, so my question is if they are just tube casts why don't they all look the same? I have only found ones that are usually all greyish and look the same, these almost look like actual worms. Would different species have different tubes?
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Found in TXI cement plant (MMI) in Midlothian, TX. Please help me identify. Ruler is in centimeters. .
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Need some confirmation, or correction, on couple jaws found this week, same creek, does contain Pleistocene material. Pretty sure modern raccoon, but the other not positive it's beaver, no orange teeth, and I've never found a bone this dark in this creek. Could it be anything else fossil, like baby giant beaver?
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Yesterday had the pleasure of going hunting with my friend Dale, aka Rockwood. We went to my favorite creek which was lower than I've ever seen it with a lot of new Eagle Ford exposure, we found lots of goodies that I'll have in another post with questions but this was my prize. It does not quite look like the Cretolamna teeth I have so not sure if that's what it is, thanks for help!
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I am assuming this is bovine but not certain, I have never found a tooth in this condition and not sure how to read the smooth surface. Is it old and worn or young and just emerging? The pristine part of enamel showing makes me think young animal. Came from creek with Pleistocene and modern material.
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Here is my latest trip to POC. Another nice large tooth (I took a picture with a cm ruler for the non-Americans out there), some mastodon or mammoth enamel, a few nice ptychodus, chunkasaurus, and several chunks of matrix with teeth sticking out of them. I also had a few questionables. Anyone know what kind of tooth is in pictures 5 and 6? Or 7 and 8? Im thinking 9,10, and 11? 12, 13, and 14 might be crushed crustacean or coprolite? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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So, the part of creek this came from is composed of QT, QAL, and antique glass it seems. There are plenty of fossils too, when I washed out sand from this bottle the little shell was left, and I have tried to get it out but afraid of breaking it. All the recent shells in this creek are from Asian clams and mussels, from what I can tell this looks more like oyster shape. Got the best pictures possible through the pitted glass, so could this be a fossil?
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Picked this up in creek where I find turtle shell fossils, Cretaceous Eagle Ford and QAL mix, thought that's what this was until I washed mud off, then thought it was cement, looks like it and sounds like glass, but it has hexagon shapes all through it. Thinking shape is coincidental and it's Favosites?
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I can't seem to find a match for these gastropods, closest I've seen is Cerithium Turriculatum. I hesitate to say they are Cretaceous since I find things in this creek that aren't, this part of creek is QAL, Qt, and Eagle Ford with a little Permian mixed in. There is a pyritized fossil and also something round that I first thought bivalve or different gastropod but it seems too round. Thanks for looking!
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Picked from mix of QT, QAL, and Eagle Ford gravels. I love calcite but it can be deceiving, not sure if this was replacement of something or naturally formed structure, appears to be fossilized something. Curious about the red, mineral staining maybe? Last pic is view from above.
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Spent Saturday afternoon visiting Lake Texoma and Post Oak Creek. Overall not a bad day. Found some decent ammonite and rare Paraisurus tooth at the Texoma. Also found nice shark tooth from the Post Oak creek. Always nice size ammonites exposed on the surface at the Ammonite Beach. Water levels pretty low. About 6 feet under. Nice looking Paraisurus tooth from the Duck Creek Lake Texoma. Last time I found one was back in 2019. This was a nice find for me. Nice decent shark & fish teeth from Post Oak. I found all these within first 15 minutes I got there, but then nothing. For less than an hour, not too bad!.
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When I picked this up it was covered in mud and thought it might be an osteoderm, it's not obviously but I haven't run across anything similar. What produced so many perfectly even layers? Would this have been a large area at one time or isolated? I've counted up to 12 layers, or rather micro layers. Found in Eagle Ford and the only water anywhere near is a natural spring in gully about 10 yds away.
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What could have caused this? Doesn't appear like it's white all the way through.
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Found this on my land I live in North Texas, Dallas Texas specifically. Not familiar with fossil but would like to know any information anyone has on this. It’s about 4 inches in length 2.5 inches wide. It has some other impressions on it which I zoomed in on one of the pictures.
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What did I find this ammonite in? And need ID on calcite fossil.
Lone Hunter posted a topic in Fossil ID
Went to creek I frequent but went down to a part I haven't been to for awhile, had several good floods since. Much to my surprise I rounded a corner and the bottom of the creek was pale yellow as far as I could see down. As you see in the picture there was shapes carved out by water, and it was very thick in places, but it was soft enough to break of pieces and it was grey underneath. So is this a layer of shale? If so why is it yellow? This may be natural in Eagle Ford and I've just never seen it in this form, just looking around I spotted this ammonite and just plucked it out. So now wondering if more fossils are deeper in this and how long it will take to erode down being so soft. One interesting calcite rock I picked up not far away, it's a jumble of pieces of fossils but the center has these fine layers of sheets with delicate veining I'm thinking is something that may be recognized.
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This rock was part of erosion control on banks of creek in Cretaceous Eagle Ford so it is not from here and that's all I know. It's a mass of crinoid stems with a couple things I can't identify, first object is similar to the stems but it's translucent and doesn't appear segmented, next object is also translucent with stripes. Last pic maybe bryzoan?
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Found this on gravel bank in creek close to DFW, in a narrow band of Alluvium smack dab in middle of Fluviatile terrace deposits. I'm not sure what to make of it, appreciate input!
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Here are some pictures of my latest fossil hunting trip. I have been going to post oak creek a lot for shark teeth and wanted to try something new out. I found a steep embankment on a river in Tarrant county with several partial ammonites sticking out. After climbing down the embankment I found an assortment of fossils. I am not sure of the period or the formation in Tarrant county but there was quite a variety. Picture 2 is a conglomeration of marine fossils. Picture 3 is a nice ammonite I went back and chiseled away later. I will post that picture later but it was a very nice enact one. Pictures 4 and 5 are of a nice ammonite that unfortunately broke as I was removing it from the matrix but I was able to piece it back together. It was also interesting to see the internal structure of it as well. The rest are just closeups of common fossils except for the last 4 pictures 13-16 I have no idea what they are. Any ideas? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
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Was out catching minnows today and checked out a section of creek wall that collapsed and found this in sandy dirt, it was buried about 6 ft into side and 20 ft from top of creek bank, it had been buried a long time. I haven't found much on razor clams if that's what it is, I think Grayson up in Denton Co is closest location they are found. That said, this part of creek is mix of Cretaceous Eagle Ford, QT and QAL.
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Found this in creek that is in Trinity river flood plain, consists of QT and QAL where I find bison bones. I think this is horse but it is large for a cannon bone, it passes flame test but unsure if it's fossil so double checking my ID.
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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!
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All of these came from LENS sample, in first set I know the brown tooth is Echnodus, what are the other two? Oh, whatever that little dot with 2 white root looking things is maybe somewhat irrelevant, it disappeared. Next set of things I had put on tape so really couldn't move them, some of it just disregard, but other than Echnodus teeth what else is there? Esp. the odd little black ball. The largest tooth is 1/2 cm.
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Just washed off couple pounds of dried mud on my shoes from my outing yesterday to Grayson spot. Was delighted to find another fossil! I have not been able to ID it, first I thought deer heart clam but I see the hinge, is this a Brachiopod?
