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Here are a few more shell fragments....are they all turtle? B-1 and A-4 seem different. Southeast Texas Pleistocene alluvial deposits.

So this is the very 1st fossil piece I found. It's heavy and rock solid. Have no idea if it's really from a turtle or something else. It has a groove on one side but overall it's pretty flat....just alot bigger than then other shell pieces I have.

When I found this...the top half of it was exposed across the sand and dirt which was pretty packed...and my lesson learned that day was to not to reach down and immediately make a grab for bones and pick them up...which I did...and which is why I broke it. I had yet to find ANYTHING this fragile. Man I have handle this thing carefully since. It wouldn't take much for this to fall apart. So my question is...how old does something have to be to be this "crumbly?" And is this horse? Southeast Texas

This thing is cool whatever it is...it has "veins" on it which makes me think it's wood maybe? Do antlers have veins?

Well I guess I'll start posting some turtle shell pieces...and giant armadillo scutes...is that right? I'm not sure of the different turtle types...the patterns I have differ. Plus I have a larger rock solid piece I'll post next which my very first fossil piece I discovered which led me on this path. Thanks for any info. Southeast Texas

Ok here are the last of my teeth that I'll post. No need to ID each one but if something sticks out to anyone please let me know....I think maybe D--1 is bison. Also are some enamel pieces I found also...thought they looked cool. And I would like to ID these two small pieces if anyone can help. Southeast Texas - gravel bank

Found this here in SE Texas. This seems to end to what I think might be a point...could this be a horn, claw, spike; or is there more to it that's broken off that takes this in a totally different direction??

This is the actual color and it's fossilized. It's heavy for its size. What do y'all think it is? SE Texas.

Here's another I think is an antler...it has lines that run the length of it. Is this right? Found in SE Texas.

Found here in SE Texas Pleistocene deposits. Does it belong to horse, bovid or bison? Seem to get a lot of those specimens where I search.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a tooth but doesn't it look like a large molar? I thought it was funny in appearance. It even seems to have "roots." But when I did find it...it was really out of place. It was sitting on a huge gravel bank and it was the ONLY thing that was not like the rest. It was out of place for sure. So I kept it. What is it and why this shape?

I thought this was pretty cool...it has alot of "chambers?" What is it? I found this in SE Texas. Thanks for any info!

Found in SE Texas - Pleistocene alluvial deposits. I have no idea what it is or what it belongs to.

Welp...I have a bunch of unidentified teeth. I am putting 5 at a time just to get thru a few post instead of 15+ different post. I wish I could find more canines the way I find these teeth. Found in SE Texas.

When I found this I got a real kick out of it. It had me thinking that "what if found some real cool carnivore piece like the canine I found last Christmas." But it's probably from a cow. Here's to dreaming big! Just kidding, but I have so many pieces I'm just beginning to post them that no matter what they are I'm just happy to identity them.

This is rock solid...could it be a piece of rib bone? But on one of the ends it has a flat circular spot so does that means it's something else?? No clue. It does seem to have a bunch of holes punched into a section of it...could they be teeth marks? SE Texas

I really like this little piece. It's rock solid and interesting to me. It seems a lot of what I have are horse, Bison, and bovid specimens so with each piece it's always exciting it might be something different. Thanks for any info. Found in SE Texas.

This is probably one of the few pieces that I have that hasn't been completely destroyed or damaged. Thought it was pretty cool. But what is it? Found on a gravel bank in SE Texas.

Well...I'm finally gonna start putting a bunch of my finds on here for identification. I appreciate any info and I look forward to what y'all have to say. Everything will be specimens discovered on SE Texas Pleistocene gravel and sand banks. I thought this might be turtle but it's much thicker than the shell fragments I have...some part of a skull?

This might be too beat up to identify but I thought I'd post it anyway. SE Texas gravel bank

I found this in Southeast Texas on a gravel bank. I had trouble trying to find anything similar online to compare it to.

I think this belongs to a softshell turtle...is that right? Southeast Texas

This piece was pretty busted up that I found on a gravel bank in SE Texas. I hope it's clear enough to ID.

As the title implies - I had a very busy and exciting spring break. Big news first - I confirmed plans this June to intern with a small paleo company, "Fossil excavators", in North Dakota for two weeks digging up a sub-adult T. rex, which was found right at the end of the season last year. We'll be exploring more than just that though, as the hell creek dig sites accessible to them are rife with life. A unique Triceratops horridus specimen, nicknamed "Alice", who's an adult missing all indication of its right horn (perhaps hox gene mutation, perhaps an injury as a hatchling, it's not known yet, as preparation is still underway) was found close by at the same site, as well as adult rex material. In our zoom interview, they also asked about the Mosasaur Christian and I found in September, and I jumped at the chance to get to talk about it. For those still curious, progress has been sloooooow but consistent. I went back to the site to poke around more at the pit just out of a "what if" notion, and found much more of the skull and skeleton. There's still skeletal material in there, but the full on dig has been getting postponed for a while. We do finally have a date in mind though! Anyway, here's a link about Alice below - I'm obviously super excited, and also specifically excited to work with Harry. I'll probably try to plant myself as firmly as possible into assisting with their unrelated (to the interns) projects as I can. P.S. - It'll make the coolest trip report ever https://abcnews.go.com/US/biology-student-helps-discover-65-million-year-triceratops/story?id=64562977 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now on to my week of fossil hunts: Early on, I decided to explore a new creek with Ozan strata. I had high hopes but got mostly skunked - can't win them all. I'm mostly including it here because the grandiosity of the exposure impressed me, and perhaps some invertebrate lovers will have an appreciation for the oysters I saw there: In between balancing friends and rock climbing, I found another time to hunt a day or two later - this time a much more familiar spot that has unfortunately been receiving increasing attention. The low water and ample foot prints told me first how picked over it would be, but despite that, I made some uncommon finds I was happy with: First, this point, the smallest I've ever found, and no doubt an actual bow and arrow point, rather than an Atlatl point like all others I find. I don't know the type yet, but it's an impressive little piece that was sitting right beside somebody's foot print: Pleased with myself, I then found another piece of Columbian mammoth tooth enamel - this is only the third I've ever seen, and the three I have found have all been within the same 100 meter stretch of creek - I'm dying to find where they're coming from. The next day, I decided to solve just that problem. The plan was to hit the hard-to-explore upstream area where I knew there ought to be a small Pleistocene exposure. Those who have seen my posts on the forum a lot probably know well by now that if I have a sworn nemesis, it's the Pleistocene. I have so much trouble finding Pleistocene exposures that I take it personally at this point The team was myself, my step-brother christian, who always proves to be good luck on the expeditions we do together, and my friend Siri, who on her very first outing, discovered that bi-face that some may remember from an earlier report. I'd call that good luck as well. I had only explored the stretch of creek we were on once before, and that was in a mad dash, as the day was closing on me quickly when I initially scouted it. Through the bramble thickets and thigh deep creek walking, we started making our first few finds: Christian with an interesting cretaceous fish tooth, ID undecided: Myself with a nice Squalicorax, maybe S. kaupi Siri walking an exposure below: An interesting piece of cretaceous shark cartilage Siri spotted, ID'd first by @ThePhysicist Then, things started getting exciting when we stumbled upon a wealth of Bison material: Below, three ribs weathering out of the bank - the ribs themselves weren't diagnostic, but the positive ID on the Bison tooth shown next only a few feet away means that these ribs are probably associated with it. Siri spotted those above, and Christian close by spotted a large leg bone in the same layer. As we round the corner, I noticed a deeply weathered bone in a layer that was a few feet higher coming out of the bank - blowing on it, I saw teeth! It was a lower jaw. Now, before you get your hopes up, this jaw did come from a higher layer, and I've decided after cleaning that I think it's most likely cow - the stylids on the teeth in the jaw don't look the stylids on my confirmed Bison teeth. Bummer - but I didn't know that yet! It took three days in total of short trips when I had the time, to get it out in tact, and it made for a really euphoric experience while doing so, considering the beautiful area it was in. I will still upload a picture of the teeth later, just in case my cow ID could be wrong Below, the initial revealing of the jaw, with christian working to extract a vertebra in the background: The jaw after I completely revealed it when I came back two days later: Fast forward to two days ago. I was exploring an Eagle Ford spot in a dingey little creek that produces magnificent fossils, like my largest tooth from anything to date, a Xiphactinus partial tooth. This time, instead of splitting open mudstone, I poked around in gravel a bit, and lo and behold, I quickly came across a stunner (to me) Cretoxyrhina mantelli. I am not good at finding large representatives of this species, even though the teeth from this animal have the potential to reach 2.7 inches in length. This is likely my largest C. mantelli tooth in terms of mass, and I love the colors. I also found what what has the potential to be a decently sized tooth in matrix, in the queue to be prepped out soon. A follow up trip the day after was less successful, with a few of the now usual Ptychodus anonymous teeth showing themselves, and a chunk of Pleistocene tooth - crossing my fingers for horse, but in reality it's probably un ID'able. It's funny to call a shark tooth "usual" for me now, many of you may remember when seeing even a piece of a Ptychodus tooth in central texas would have made me lose my mind. Today's classes were cancelled, as my professor had an important appointment, so I spent the day neglecting my other pressing responsibilities and drove around frivolously, exploring new wild areas. I was dodging a thunderstorm that kept finding me and soaking me, and at one point had to hop a curb to hide under a tree with my car to avoid the hail. I decided to go and check out another Eagle Ford spot 15 minutes from my house right as the worst of the evening storm passed again, and as I pulled into the neighborhood that the spot bordered, I was met with views of torn out fences, ripped up shingles, and also much later with blown out windows, caved in garage doors, and in some concentrated areas, portions of roofs lifted. A tornado had barged through the neighborhood 40 minutes before I got there. At first, on the way in, I only saw the area of lighter damage, the worst being uprooted oak trees, as is usual with our normal strong spring storms. I saw neighbors walking about investigating it, but I had no idea it was a proper tornado that came through. Seeming I thought it was just storm damage at this point, I anyway walked down to my spot and hunted to no success - I did however see another deep black/brown cloud coming in, and noticed what I thought were tornado sirens for a few seconds. As I drove out, I took a different route, and saw the heavier damage, (the torn up roof portions and caved in garages). I pulled over to help the neighbors clean some of the worse hit areas before it got dark, and then tried driving back to see if my house is ok. Turns out the neighborhood I helped in didn't even get it the worst, another neighborhood just south of them and 8 or so minutes from me got super badly hit, with fully uplifted roofs and everything. Roads were iffy and it took many detours, but I was able to confirm that my house and chickens were fine when I eventually got back. I've been home alone for a few days, so my parents had no idea that our town got hit. Christian was a little jealous he missed it Here's some footage of the twister itself, for those curious. The debris is when it hit the shopping center where the bank is. The tornado picked up and dropped down several times, and the path it took in the video would've taken it to my neighborhood in less than a minute if it didn't pick up, as the road this angle looks on is only a few minutes away. Definitely got lucky! It's amazing no one was seriously injured. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/live-blog-severe-storms-expected-to-move-through-central-texas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anyway, there's a lot to unpack there, an exciting one week for sure! I also had tons of non- fossil related fun, rock climbing hard and staying up until the sun came out with friends back from college. What a week it was.

Hi everyone! My family and I are staying in Boca for a week and half in a month and while I'm in Florida I was hoping to hunt the Peace River. It will be my first time at that site and I was hoping to see if anyone has any tips about hunting there and avoiding hazards environmental and large/scaly. P.S. Yes I am aware it is a three hour drive, I live in Houston, that's near the minimum I have to drive to find anything. I am fine with that.