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While snail collecting in part of the Britton formation I ran across this amongst the bits and pieces of ammonites and some cruddy crabs. Not much to go on but I'm thinking part of a scaphite from the nodosus group maybe?
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I've been spending more time in Woodbine since finding a somewhat productive area, finding nice chunks of pet wood, ammonites and bivalves. This is in bad shape, most of the rock is part of fossil but cleaned up enough to hopefully ID, couldn't find match for an ammonite so maybe a scaphite?
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Second fossil hunting trip and first BIG FIND! (scaphite, and coral?)
Treemaninaction posted a topic in Fossil ID
My wife and I went out for our third fossil hunting expedition and landed on what I would consider to be our first big find. We went camping up near Ram Falls, in Alberta Canada. I previously read on this handy website that others had found ammonites in the area, specifically scaphite depressus, an low and behold, we found one too! I can't described how pumped I was to hold that thing in my hand. What a great feeling. Anyway, we also found a fair amount of other coral looking thingys, and I would really appreciate some help IDing them. Here they are: I am thinking that these three might be colonial rugose corals... but that is just a noobs guess: Now this one looks like a sponge to me... but it also looks like pumice. I didn't see any other volcanic looking rock around, so that led me to suspect some sort of fossilized sponge... Not sure what to make of this... maybe rugosa coral or a bit of bivalve? This one is really hard to make out... it has some really faint patterns that gave off fossil vibes to me. Annnnnd finally... here is the beautiful scaphite. I am pretty sure there are actually a couple of them there. What really neat is that in a few spots you can see inside the shell! Sorry about the lengthy post and thanks to anyone who takes the time to read and respond. So far this forum has been incredibly welcoming and helpful to me, and I am very glad it exists! -
I completely forgot that this last weekend was a "holiday" weekend and went on a day tripper up to the North Sulfur River near Dallas (an almost 5 hour drive). I met a new fossil friend named John who was going to take me to some of the more 'out of the way" spots he usually hunts to try to find a few specific things - a mosasaur tooth and vert being the top of my list, plus he was going to take me to a spot where we could hopefully find a really awesome looking cephalopod (Scaphites). The first spot was already picked over, sadly, the disadvantage of not getting there before 10am I guess! I found a few nice baculites (which I love and was happy to find including a cool red one) and some other nice little things, gastropods and such. Then I thought I had found something awesome....a nice little bone stuck in the gravel. WHoo hoo!! Was it a mosasaur??? Something Pleistocene? A GLYPTODON???? I was so excited!! Until I got home and looked it up and .....it's a cow astralagus. Yay. Not even a bison. Meh. (I think, anyways...I did look it up and saw some previous FF posts about the difference between Bos and Bison and pretty sure mine is just a Bos). So a question....was Bos around in the Pleistocene? This isn't 'modern" bone, I think it is at least partially mineralized. But I really don't know. So, as relatively disappointing as that was, I still came home with some GREAT stuff- a couple of nice shark teeth (a new one I had not found before, even if it was John who picked it up...I WOULD have found it if he wasn't ahead of me....but he was nice and gave it to me. hahahha) AND even though we busted open a bunch of phosphate nodules with no luck at finding the Scaphites I was looking for.....he had an extra one to give me. SO I came home with lots of fossil gifts! My "consolation prize" - Trachyscaphyties . 3 inches diameter . My first Goblin Shark Tooth : Scapanorhynchus 2 inches Baculites - love the suture pattern Two chunks of a red one (not sure if they were from the same one, but they sort of fit together!) A different Baculites - not sure of species, but it doesn't have the same suture patterns and has more surface detail. maybe just not as worn down? The Atralagus bone: And this i THINK is mosasur bone, but very worn down. 2 inches A cute little Inoceramus clam 1 inch and lastly, some Exogyra ponderosas. Hopefully I can make it out there a few more times before they dam the river and maybe find that danged Mosasaur tooth and vert.
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I ran into this ammo again just a month ago or two? Found this many years ago and put it away cause it was in bad shape! This thing was in about 4 or 5 pieces and the intire fragmacone along with the appature opening was covered in rock. i did a bit of prep here and there over the last month or so and then began to realize that this just may turn out purty good? It is a bit crushed on the fragmacone but the more work I did on it the better it became!!! Now its a keeper!! Im not sure but I think this its spedini? Fox Hills Formation. Oh, it measures 4.5 inches at its widest points. RB
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