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I took advantage of the nice weather on my last couple days off and went to a couple sites around town, in no particular order here's the most interesting things I found. First a worn ptychodus anonymous tooth from the eagle ford shale. next what I think is a pachidiscus travisi from the basal pecan gap chalk and a half of a graptocarcinus texanus carapace from the buda formation in a location I had never found anything particulary interesting before. Quite worn but still recognizable And while normally one finds echinoids and ammonites in the georgetown this time I only f
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Ok, still new at this fossil hunting thing. Went poking around today in an Alluvial Creek bed in the Goliad formation of Duval County, Texas. We found an ammonite here a few weeks ago and were searching for more when my daughter found a bone in the side of a bluff, about 6’ to 8’ above the creek bottom which is always dry here. It seems slightly petrified but not hard as a rock. It is very brittle. Not sure if this is a cow from 50 years ago (or 10 years ago) or something more exciting. It was buried under a lot of pebbles and sand on the side of the Bluff. We’re still out here searchin
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Found at the contact between the pecan gap chalk and Austin chalk. I'm thinking some kind of scaphites but trachyscaphites spiniger which is known from this formation doesn't look similar to me. As always, thanks! PS @Uncle Siphuncle
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Found these in the Buda formation. in situ ammonite, it's less than an inch wide. and this unknown fossil. Maybe a echinoid but doesn't seem to to have a pattern like echinoids I'm used to. Reminds me of the algal fruits of Porocystis globularis found in the glen rose. Any help is appreciated
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Haven't really been able to do much fossil hunting between my job and a herniated disc that meant I couldn't bend down for many months now but finally felt good enough to go to a fairly easy location. This is a spot where the Buda formation meets the del Rio clay. Not sure which this came from but I think del Rio is more likely. Apologies for the image quality. My light died and I had to use a flashlight
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Any chance that the first pics (round stone with snails) below is a coprolite? I’m new to this so is there any benefit of cutting one of these in half or will I just ruin it. What about polishing? Also the second pic, any ideas what that may be? Both found in an alluvian creekbed in the Goliad Formation southwest of Freer, Texas. Thanks again!
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Ok, I’m new to the forum and to fossil hunting. What was supposed to be a hunt for pretty rocks with my daughters to polish in our new rock polisher quickly turned in to our first fossil hunt as we found several possible fossils. Both of my daughters (8 and 9 years old) now have the fossil hunting bug. We dont know anything about them and would appreciate any input. Some of these may just be rocks but they piqued our interest. These were located in deep South Texas in Duval County, south of Freer. All of these were located along the sides or very near a large creek bottom. T
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Drove south of San Antonio to Tilden, Texas to check out our favorite petrified wood location. My wife and I found some decent pieces. Some are very “tumbled” from the creek but other pieces have retained their wood characteristics. Bonus is that I found a scraper type tool that is probably as perfect as a piece I have ever found. Last trip of 2020.
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This was a small plate that I found years ago off of US Highway 290, west of Austin, Texas. It is about the size of the palm of my hand, loaded with these micro fossils. I looked a long time, several different trips, before I found one this nice. It is a very thin layer about 1/2 inches thick. These fossils separate the lower and upper Glen Rose formation. They are very small, about 3 mm.
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Howdy fellow fossilers. I moved to Corpus 3 months ago with my wife and I've always loved hunting fossils across the US. Let me tell you, I can tell this is a great spot. I've seen Steve71's posts on mammoth teeth and Pleistocene bones, bison, mastodon, tapir, horse teeth etc. I'd really love to find some of those things and if anyone knows any pointers for stuff nearby (not by san antonio) I'd be forever in your gratitude. In the meantime, here are some photos of fossils I found roaming the beach at Port Aransas.
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My husband found this on the side of the road in South Texas. It really looks like some sort of egg to us or is it just a strange rock? It's about the size of my fist.
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Found twenty years ago on South Texas coast. Thank you so much for your help. Measures approx 2 x 3 inches
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Could you please help me identify this tooth? It was found today on the beach in South Texas. It’s not in great shape like others I have found in the same area. Also are the markings just normal wear? Measures 2.75 inches long and 1 inch wide. Thank you so much for your help!
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This was also found on the beach in south Texas. Thank you!
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I was gonna call this a monthly round up but I just realized it's been four months, adjusting to new job has had me messed up. I've only gone to 2 locales in 4 months and I'm having withdrawals. Anyway, I stopped at a outcrop of buda formation for about 30 minutes while the family went shopping, the buda had given me 2 graptocarcinus carapaces previously so I was looking specifically for that, I found what I thought was a carapace but it turned out to be a chela with just a nub of a dactyl, unfortunately the finger got broken off somewhere in between getting it out of the ground and getting it
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Is this just a rock or a fossil of some sort? I know nothing about fossils, but am getting good at spotting them on the beach. I am an avid sheller and beachcomber and stumble upon Pleistocene aged fossils in South Texas. This piece looked different to me. Thank you so much. It measures approximately 1 inch by 2 inches
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Found on the beach in south Texas.
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Just got home from a day trip to the corpus Christi area, very tired so might be a bit loopy. Found this on a shoreline sort of near the lighthouse park in Port Aransas, given the environment I don't know if it is actually a fossil that was maybe dredged out of the channel or modern. I think it is a shark centrum but I've never found one before so I could be wrong. Scale was a last minute thing, it's 28 mm long. Around an inch and an eighth.
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This tooth was found on a beach off the channel at South Padre Island. I am a shell and artifact hunter and have been finding fossils of late. I don't really know about fossils and have joined this group to help me learn and identify what I find. I have three fossils that I would love help with identification and I will post separately. Thanks so much!
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This tooth was found on a beach off the channel at South Padre Island. I am a shell and artifact hunter and have been finding fossils of late. I don't really know about fossils and have joined this group to help me learn and identify what I find. I have three fossils that I would love help with identification and I will post separately. Thanks so much!
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This probably needs moved to another place since it isn't actually fossilized. I found this year's aho near cotulla Texas. It was in an area where numerous "arrow heads" are found. It may be more modern than that though. It looks a lot like bear, but it's pretty small.
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Finally got a few hours to hunt around my local creek, I had found one mosasaur vert once before there so I decided to dig farther into the wall to see if there was more, to my surprise there was, the first one came out okay but the second one was really really crumbly. First one first
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Micro fossils from the pecan gap right where it meets Austin chalk, shark teeth with the roots dissolved are common here, as are baculites, if you see something you know or want to know more about say.
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Creek was a little flooded today made it harder to navigate, started the day with 2 dead drill battery's that I had charged the night before so I decided to move father up to look at some different exposures, started by picking up some matrix for micro's from the bottom of the pecan gap, more on that later, and then some Del Rio clay for the same, (if someone has suggestions for how to wash this faster that would be great) spent the next 2 hours picking up heteromorph mariellas.
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