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I and my 8 years old boy a great time fossil hunt in Texas. During our time in Austin, with Erose help, we hunt at Texas 360 and found a nice sea urchin, some devil toe snail (oyster,) and shells. It was raining so I didn't spend much time there. After Christmas, we start our fossil hunt trip. We stop at Meridian road cut for some heart sea urchin, coral, and shells. Then drove to Mineral Wells Fossil Park. My son love this place so much because the fossils are so easy to find and he love crinoids. We didn't find any shark teeth or trilobite but we are happy. My son want to assembly the crinoid pieces to make full crinoids then we decide to put everything we found at Mineral Wells Fossil Park to make Pennsylvanian period ocean floor. We stayed at Fort Worth for the night. The next morning, me and my son visited the 2 sites KimTexan gave us (thanks Kim.) I went to the first site, parked the car at the day care (read Kim post carefully) and crossed the street. We walked for about 15 minutes and couldn't find anything except for this, please help me identify this fossil if they are actually fossil. It was so cool and my son want to get back to the car. On the way back, we found the first echinoid. I walked my son to the car and came back for more echinoids. I walked around another 10 minutes without any echinoid but I realized the white rocks I steps on are fragment of ammonites. I decided to search for a complete ammonites or at least a good fragment. And I found this. This is what it look like after I remove some matrix I found 2 more echinoids and got back to the car to go to the second site. The second site has a lot more fossils and is very easy to find. I found many echinoids which are all less than 1 inch, a complete ammonites, and 3 pieces of fossils which I don't know what they are. I found this ammonites in the clay. Since I have no tool with me, I walked back to my car to get a garden shavel (the only thing I have) and a bottle of water. i pulled the water to the clay to make it easy to extract the fossil. Here is what it look like after I clean it up We went back to the hotel to pick up my daughter and husband, checked out and drove to Dallas for lunch then to Waco to visit Waco Mammoth National Monument and back to Austin. We had a great time hunting and so happy with the fossils we got.