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This chunk of rock and several others were in the local creek next to the railroad track. It appears these rocks were brought in for railroad erosion control next to the small creek runs parallels to the railroad track. Also darker in color than surrounding chalk limestones, and full of gastropods normally not found in this area. Are these Cretaceous gastropods?
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Now that I have a loop I am 're-discovering' things I have collected, like this which I dismissed as a concretion or nodule. Now I see a an Echinoid right? Can't remember exactly where I found it it's been so long, somewhere in Eagle Ford. Is there enough of it to identify?
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Stopped by a new home construction site, a tad NE of DFW airport, Eagle Ford Kef, so far just levelled with road cuts. Stumbled upon this shark tooth and I lack the experience to ID it. Next up the rock which is what I think is fish coprolite, it weighs nothing, doesn't look like any shark coprolite I've seen, and there were no other rocks that looked even close. Lastly, and I might be way off, I'm pretty sure is shark related, my first impression was it looked like a puddle of barf. These were just the biggest peices the rest was shattered. I know sharks vomit so that was just a thought , it has the makings of coprolite but lacks shape, eager to learn what it is!
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Found this rock in creek gravel bank where there is a variety of fill rock, a pink glimmer caught my eye. First thing was smack it open, this ain't from Texas. Looks like quartzite, my guess wants to be rough Ruby but how would it end up here? In love with the color whatever it may be. Included pics of stone my parents brought back from China, they were told it was Ruby but it has cleavage, is it Anyolite?
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Found this stone in Dallas area creek, are these fusulinids? They are supposed to be abundant in limestone in Texas, you can faintly see rings in them like a slice of onion.
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I found these rocks outside of my house, in gravel. I'm not sure what they are but both their shapes are interesting, so I thought they could both be a fossil. I think the 'crescent' rock could be a fossil burrow or gastropod cast, but I'm no expert. I'm not totally sure what the other one is though, but it looks like rocks cemented together. And sorry for the bad photo quality...this the best quality I can get on my phone unfortunately. Does anyone know what these are?
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I found this ammonite chunk a few days ago in my backyard, and I was wandering what species it is. There are some fossil snail imprints and some other small fossil imprints on this ammonite chunk. There is also a swirl or some kind of shape on the side of the ammonite if anyone can identify that.
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I took a trip to the NSR in early February and here are my finds. All of the bones in picture 2 as well as the closeups, I'm assuming mosasaur, were found on the surface but all with in about 10 yards of each other. They were on the other side of the river from the large cliff face so they wouldn't have fallen out of the matrix from it. It was a remote large creek area so could have just been revealed from the ground slowly over time and no one found them until I came across it. The bones themselves were also different from other mosasaur im used to finding. They had a reddish tent to them and they had a rougher texture, almost a little sandstoneish. Maybe the fossilization process at this spot was a little different than the normal NSR fossilization. Im interested in pictures 3-5, is it a fossil or geological? Im also interested in pictures 6 and 7, coprolite? I know pictures 8-10 are geological but I thought they were pretty cool whatever they are. The rest are closeups of the bones. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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I didn't even realized they found the Mosasaur at this Garland Duck Creek (creek, not a formation), but in the Austin Chalk formation. I live just two miles from location and walked on this creek several times. Creek is several miles long. This was a rare find. Here is the follow up video.
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I found this rock a couple months ago in a small community in Denton County, Texas. I think it could be a fossil rib bone or some other kind of fossil bone. I was originally thinking it was a manatee rib bone, but after more research I started to doubt the possibility of it being a manatee...and I'm pretty sure you can't find fossil manatee bones in Texas. Anyone know what this is?Is it just a rock or an actual fossil?
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From the album: Miscellaneous
Found in the Red River/Lake Texoma. Likely from the Cretaceous-aged Paw Paw Fm. ~ 100 Ma.-
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This is my best find to date and I would love your input and observations... I found this specimen in McKinney Texas (suburb north of Dallas) in late 2020. While my wife my was antique shopping, I went to a local housing development to look for fossils. To my surprise I found this beautiful tail fin in the Austin Chalk formation. It was in about a 300 lb boulder, but it was well worth the effort to salvage it. I have returned to the area to search for more sections, but after hours of searching I haven't found anything new. In the original boulder, I also found a suspected scale and a single vertebrae. I also have only a small part of the matching side. I have now cut down to pieces and would like to present them to you for your insights. I tried to picture them in different lights/contrasts for you. (the measuring stick is in inches, the only measure I had in the house)
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Hey y'all! This is my first ID post, so please tell me what I should do/change for future posts <3 These are all fossils I have found in the North Sulphur River in the last two months. I'm only asking about a few in the picture because I know there's a lot and I figured I'd only focus on a few at a time <3 sorry y'all, didn't plan ahead very well. I have more pictures of all of them though if needed. 1) One (bottom middle) is ID'd (via Dallas Paleo Group on FB) possibly as coprolite or a 'jumble'?- looking for clarification as well as what the things inside the fossil might be, if possible? 2) I think another (the thick triangle whitish thing-top left) might be an oyster/shell thingy? Or a rock bahahaha xD This is the side view: 3) This one (bottom left) is a pain to get pictures of. My camera refuses to focus properly on it. He's very thin and ever so slightly 'pyramids' in the middle, as well as curves along one side a bit. I thought it might be a scute of some sort? Unsure. It's as dark as it looks in the last picture. Same color as the first. Camera did something funky. 4) And the last (top middle) for now is some weird black rock thing that may be nothing for all I know. Kinda makes me think of a claw in the way it's cupped and has blunt teeth along a ridge. Could be another shell thingy for all I know! It's very thick on one side and then becomes thinner as it reaches the ridged edge. Appreciate any and all help as well as any tips you can give me! I can post more pictures if necessary, just didn't want to overload the post more than I already have. Thank you in advance <3
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I went back to a new spot on POC and found the typical array of broken shark teeth, a few Ptychodus teeth, and some interesting items I'm not really sure about. Anyone have an idea of what the item in pictures 6-8 are? What about 9-11 maybe coprolite or a fossilized crustacean? The item in pictures 12-14 appears to be a tooth but with no enamel I didn't think it was a shark tip. It could also just be a piece of bone or something. Sorry for the poor picture quality of that one but I will take better ones of it later. Im pretty sure picture 15 is a rudist and lastly the item in pictures 16-18 I think is just a coincidentally formed rock. The rest of the pictures are of some cool items like the shark or fish verts, the small fossilized crab claw, a broken piece of sawfish rostrum, and a few cool pieces of matrix with inclusions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
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North Texas Central Cook County Antlers Sand Formation
Creek - Don posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Nice weather here in Texas today. Took a advantage of the warm weather (70's) and went out fossil hunting near the Texas - Oklahoma border nearby Red River. Area is a mixed Antlers and Goodland formation which sort of overlaps each other. Sometimes you will see Antlers Sand formation above the Goodland formation, etc.,. I came across what appears to be a impressive Antlers Sand formation sandstone cliff. These deposits seems to be a fluvial deposits from early Cretaceous period. I could see the river pebble stones embedded in the cliffs. Measured cliff height of about 120 feet. I don't know much about the Antler formation deposits, but from what I read on the Internet dinosaur fossils were found there. Can somebody substantiate that?
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Here are my finds from my latest visit to Post Oak Creek. The first few pictures are of the shark teeth. Items 4-7 im assuming are part of a Mosasaur vertebrate? Items 8 and 9 are some type of mammal tooth. Not sure if it is modern or not. Finally item 10 is picture of what im assuming are modern mammal teeth. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Here are my finds from my latest POC visit. Made a decent haul with my best Ptychodus yet and my largest tooth so far here. The tooth was about 1.5 inches. I also found a small ptychodus with no root but it did have very defined grooves. Pictures 2 and 3 are the large Ptychodus and picture 4 is the 1.5 inch tooth. 5 and 6 are the small Ptychodus. Picture 7 is the creek wall matrix I was looking in for teeth and 8 and 9 are the actual teeth I found in the matrix. Does anyone know if this is original matrix? I was able to find several teeth sticking out but several of them were also just pieces of teeth, like you find on the gravel bars, and not complete intact teeth. I was hoping if they were from the original matrix the teeth would be complete. And Finally I have a game for you. See if you can find the tooth in picture 10. For some reason many of the teeth I found this trip were highly camouflaged haha. The rest of the pictures are just closeups. I initially thought I found some mosasaur material but the bone feels modern to me now that it is dry. I also found my first vertebrae this trip. Looking at the other posts it seems like verts and artifacts are pretty easy to find but I guess I just don't have the eye for them as I have only found this one vert and have never found an artifact. Enjoy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
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Here are pictures from a recent trip to Post Oak Creek in Sherman Texas. Found several shark teeth but all of them broken and most in bad shape. I also found several non-fossilized material. I'm not sure if it is modern or a little older. It is all small. The one with the jaw still has two small teeth incased in it. Also I have no idea what the teeth are that are rounded. One of the pictures is a partial shark tooth still in the matrix. IMG_4149.HEIC IMG_4150.HEIC IMG_4151.HEIC IMG_4155.HEIC IMG_4156.HEIC IMG_4157.HEIC IMG_4158.HEIC IMG_4159.HEIC IMG_4160.HEIC IMG_4161.HEIC IMG_4162.HEIC IMG_4163.HEIC IMG_4164.HEIC IMG_4165.HEIC IMG_4166.HEIC IMG_4167.HEIC IMG_4168.HEIC IMG_4169.HEIC IMG_4170.HEIC IMG_4172.HEIC IMG_4173.HEIC IMG_4175.HEIC IMG_4176.HEIC IMG_4177.HEIC IMG_4178.HEIC IMG_4179.HEIC
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Here are a few pictures from another recent trip to NSR. Nothing special again but also a few interesting items I have no idea that they are. Anyone know what some of these pictures are of? IMG_4123.HEIC IMG_4127.HEIC IMG_4148.HEIC IMG_4130.HEIC IMG_4144.HEIC IMG_4141.HEIC IMG_4143.HEIC IMG_4147.HEIC IMG_4145.HEIC IMG_4146.HEIC
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Good afternoon, fossil friends! This post is a bit of a long shot, but I figured I’d rather ask than not! This may be the incorrect thread to PLAN trips, so if it is, please let me know and I’ll delete it! I certainly intend to share some stories from past trips, but I’ve found myself with free time Wednesday in the first half of the day and I’d love to go on an adventure fossil hunting with someone who is also available, should anyone be up for that! I’m also down to plan future trips for other dates! I live in Denton county and I’m more than willing to travel a couple hours for a productive site! I myself have only explored the well-known north Texas sites such as Mineral Wells, Post Oak Creek, and Lake Texoma. If anybody would like to go there, NSR, or any other places they know of, it’d be really cool to explore with another fossil fanatic. My girlfriend is a great partner, but I always feel bad boring her with my rocks! Plus, I haven’t gotten to explore or learn as much about the fossils of this region as I’d like. I was a part of Dallas Paleo for a while, but after moving out of my parents’ house I haven’t had the time to rejoin, but hope to in the future! For now, I’d like to take some of my free time to learn with other paleo nerds when I can. Please reply if you’re interested in meeting up sometime and heading out to find some ancient friends!
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This is from my most recent trip to Post Oak Creek. I found some pretty nice shark teeth and some other random items. I also found several bones sticking out of the creek bed. It is obviously not fossilized but I wasn't sure if it was a modern cow or something older like a bison. Pictures 17 and 18 show were I excavated it from. It was right on the waterline and probably 10-12 feet down from the top of the river. I am planning on going back to excavate the rest to see if I can find the skull, teeth, etc. Also I have a ton of microfossil matrix I am going through. I have already found numerous other micro shark teeth and other oddities I will be posting soon as well. It is amazing how many fossils you can find in just a little bid of small gravel. I would love to hear what you think about the bones as well as pictures 11-16 and anything else interesting you see here. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
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Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking around TFF for a couple months now and never had the guts to post my first introduction. So hello! I’m not new to fossil hunting, but I’m definitely new to the forum and hunting with other people. I would love to get to go out on socially-distanced trips sometime soon should anyone else in the area be up for it! I currently reside in Lewisville, and I’m always looking for construction areas or somewhere the dirt is turned so that I can pull off and find some goodies! Though I’ve yet to find anything here, I spent a few years in Denton and have a collection of fossils from there! I spend time hunting no matter where I’m at (so long as it’s legal) because I love getting to see the difference/similarities between flora and fauna between the places I’ve traveled! I used to be a member of Dallas Paleo and definitely want to get a membership again, however the pandemic has shut down all of their meetings and trips so I’ll be waiting until things clear up before doing so. I’ve visited a few of the staple sites in North Texas, but I’ve been dying to go up to NSR with someone familiar with the area and willing to share some honey holes! Posting a quick photo of my current display of my self-collected fossils, as I’m rather proud of the method of display here! I can’t wait to go on more trips and learn more about the creatures who roamed around the earth in our past!
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Cool rainy day at NSR due to rain this morning, but place was very muddy. Every time I walked I was carrying additional five pounds of mud so slow going. Not much erosion going on yet. Waiting for bigger rain to wash down the river maybe this weekend. First one was either a juvenile Mosasaur or Plesiosaur bone, not sure which part of the bone though. Could be the paddle or humorus bone. Second one was rudist colony that was attached side by side. This one was the first rudist colony found other than bits and pieces.
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Found this in my neighborhood, I live in Dallas Texas USA. As far as geological history when I research the area it mentions most fossils found in Dallas Texas from the cretaceous period. It is small and looks like a piece of something but have no idea so now I’m here... any information would be helpful thanks. Length wise it’s 7.5 cm, width is 5.5 cm, and height is about 3 cm and the other is slanted so thing less than half of one cm.
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Hello.. I am new to the forum. I live around Navarro County in Texas (Corsicana). I am new to the fossil hunting world. So I am looking for any info on spots to hunt in this area. I would also like to know what types of fossils I would be able to find around the county. Thank You for any info..
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