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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
© J. Jackson
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
© J. Jackson
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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From the album: Texas Mammoth Humerus - 48.5 inches
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I decided on a whim to make the trek to the North Sulphur River ONE MORE TIME before they dam it up and the good hunting spots are under 60 feet of water. I wasn't planning on going back, as I have not had much luck on the NSR finding my most desired thing....a Texas Mosasaur Tooth (or Vertebra...I'd settle for that even!) but a friend from North Texas was going to go and he KNOWS that river so I figured I'd tag along and maybe, just maybe, this time, the NSR would give up the goods. So I drove the 5 hours up and met up with my friends and had a nice long 6 hour hunt. (and then a 5 hour drive home....a long day). Alas, my fossil treasures were not to be found. We had a great time and I found some great stuff, but that dang Mosasaur eludes me still. The day was GORGEOUS. Partly cloudy, 77 degrees F, there had been rains recently and we went in at a spot about 3 miles upriver which saved us the 3 mile hike through the mud to get to the "good spot". The water was receding rapidly, so although not as clear as it is sometimes, it was only knee high at the deepest. We hit all the gravel bars on our trek up with some success, but not as much as we'd hoped. I found some bone material, including a large fish possible jaw fragment, and did find one vertebral process and a small rib bone that are nice. My friend had the find of the day, a nice little jaw section with some tooth sockets. He decided to keep that one. But at least I got to take a picture! We found a nice exposure of the red beds and I managed to find a full Trachyscaphites which was my find of the day, plus a couple of partials of a few ammonites I've not found before. I found an almost decent take home of a Glyptoxoceras. It's not the best, but more complete than I've ever found before. My REAL find was a very nice shark vertebra and a fish tooth, possibly Enchodus or Xiphactinus fish tooth. Leaning toward Enchodus. If anyone can confirm, I'd appreciate it! So I never found my Mosasaur Tooth or a vert, but I did have a lovely time wandering along the river, getting my feet wet and the odd patch of poison ivy. It was worth it, but I suspect it's my last trip to the NSR. Some you just leave them where they are: THE find of the day: Mosasaur Jaw fragment. Size 2 inches Rib Bone: 2 inches Large Fish bone, jaw maybe Size 3 inches fish tooth Size 1 inch Shark Vert Size 1 inch My lovely little Trachyscaphites spiniger Size 2 inches Glyptoxoceras Size 3 inches Pachydiscus paulsoni Size 5 inches Mosasaur Vertebra process Size 4 inches Another Mosasaur chunka bone. The Full Hoard
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Greetings. Working through my prep pile, I got around to putting the scribe to this tooth. I assume it is a plesiosaur/pliosaur tooth as opposed to some kind of fish, but I'm not sure. I'm curious if someone more knowledgeable could assign this tooth to a genus, if there are sufficient diagnostic features showing. Eagle Ford Group, Balcones Fault Zone, Texas. Thanks
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Found this little artiodactyl tooth on one of my trips to the Colorado River near Wharton, Texas about a month ago and have had some trouble getting a concrete ID. Any teeth other than bison or horse are basically impossible to find in the Brazos and so I'm way out of my depth with this one. I'm assuming it's too small to be camelid and the pictures I've seen that most closely resemble it are of antilocaprid teeth. This one must be an m3, the third lobe is just broken off (which you can see pretty clearly in the third and the fifth pictures). The occlusal surface is 1.5 cm across but obviously would be longer if the rest of the tooth was still there. As always, thanks for looking, and I'd be incredibly grateful if anybody can confirm my suspicions or point me in the right direction. I'll tag some of the Pleistocene experts that have been particularly helpful in the past: @Harry Pristis @Lorne Ledger @garyc @Shellseeker - love that these guys are a part of this forum!
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Hello, found this last Saturday at a beach in Galveston Island, Texas. Other fossils I’ve found there, are from the late Pleistocene (only around 20,000 years old). They come from the Beaumont Formation. I know this piece of bone is almost certainly from a fish. Does anyone recognize what bone this is, and from what species? It has a very weird shape, and something tells me that this is probably from a skull, possibly something similar to a sea robin skull plate. Measures around 4.75 cm (1.87 inches long)
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I've only been able to make it out to Post Oak Creek in Sherman, Texas once before, but I was fortunate enough to be able to spend an entire day shoveling and sifting and managed to come away with a decent haul of mostly complete shark teeth. Most of what I found was pretty easily identifiable, but I've held on to the three teeth that I found that day that continue to make an ID difficult despite how (mostly) complete they are. The first tooth I'm also certain is a Protolamna. It has the characteristic longitudinal ridges on both sides, the dental band on the front, and the cusplets are connected to the main blade. The other two teeth I have no idea where to begin. The one in the middle may simply be too worn to attempt a concrete ID, as the enamel closest to the root (which would be one of the most diagnostic features) has been eroded away. I initially thought the third tooth might be Cretoxyrhina, but I can't determine whether the root looks the way it does as a result of erosion or if it's still retained most of its original shape. If the latter, then it doesn't resemble any Cretaceous shark tooth I've found before. As I know the creek has been much more heavily hunted by other Texas members of the forum than myself, I've got my fingers crossed somebody should be able to help me out. Any advice is appreciated!
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From the album: North Sulphur River
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
A return to a previously visited location. Notable finds include a horse proximal phalanx, three pieces of mastodon/mammoth ivory, an antelope tooth, a beautifully-colored horse tooth, a fragment of mammoth skull, and a section of peripherals from a small tortoise. -
From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
Capromeryx sp./Antilocapra americana (?) -
From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
All finds collected from two point bars across from one another. Notable finds include half of a camel metatarsal, a deer antler, a bison tooth still attached to a fragment of jawbone, a camelid tooth, and half of a giant armadillo osteoderm.-
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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From the album: Texas Pleistocene II
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