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I think North Texans will relate when I say that now and then, the urge to take a drive out to the NSR and spend the day hunting some Campanian gravel bars can spontaneously take complete hold. I had one of those moments just after the series of heavy rains and powerful winds our region encountered some days ago. Previously, my luck with weather at the NSR had been rather poor. Each time, the temps were either nearing a hundred degrees or only just above freezing, making a full on adventure crossing muddy waters and crawling atop unshaded gravel beds too much to handle. I had yet to experience
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Following the brief rains from earlier in the week, I decided to make a return to my new favorite Ozan outcrop where I had previously found so many mosasaur vertebrae. Though I did not get to add any new verts to my collection, I did manage to come across plenty of unique fossils and artifacts that have taken up my attention for the past couple of days. One interesting thing I have noticed from this outcrop is its abundance of pyritic bony material among other pyritic fossils (including "rusty" exogyra shells + bivalves). Most of them are unidentifiable chunks, but a few have enough distinctiv
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
A little collection of assorted mosasaur fossils from 2 different places that I got when I first started collecting. 2 different types of vertebrae, one is mosasaur, and the other is a questionable claim of mosasaur, a corprolite that was claimed to be that of a mosasaur, a tooth, & 7 rib fragments. 2 ribs have predation marks, as well as the large vertebra. The large vert has a round tooth indent on the very center. The 2nd rib down has tooth scratches along the surfaces, & 3rd rib down has a round tooth indent in the center, which is probably what caused a strip across the middle to -
From the album: Sharks and fish
Xiphactinus Audax vertebrae NorthEast texas Ozan Formation--Taylor shale upper cretaceous -
Collected in gravel in the North Sulphur River near Ladonia, Tx.
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Sunday I picked up my old bud trentonmon and we headed east. We dropped into the North Sulphur River at several locations and found a few goodies in the Taylor group Ozan formation of North Texas. We saw the ruins of the old railroad trestle near Camp Shed or Enloe. I found a number of reptile and mammal verts and bone frags. One spot provided most of the fish and shark teeth pictured. I found a nice globbidens Mosasaur tooth, assorted enamel flakes along with a couple of mastodon fragments. One arrowhead, a blank and what must have been a scraper or blade. Worm tubes were everywhere.
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