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Howdy everyone. :-) I think I've gotten a little better at identifying the Pleistocene fossils I've found (and figuring out when an ID is probably hopeless), but on the few things I've found that don't fall into that era, I'm still pretty lost. I found the rock below a while back in a sand and gravel matrix near South Texas. It looks like a regular nondescript rock on its rounded face (top left), but on the flatter face (the other three pictures), it looks like it was cracked open at some point and revealed something. Tiny fin? Leaf? Impression fossil or marine creature fossil fragment? I'm hoping some of you experts can give me some info. Thanks as always!
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From the album: South Sulphur River Texas
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I took a one hour detour on my way home from work today and hit a tiny secluded creek that I hunt on occasion. I only had 30 minutes to hunt but I walked up on nice little mosasaur tooth and a killer hundred year old whiskey bottle in great shape.
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Mid-Late Cretaceous Oyster- Brewster County, TX! Help Identifying?
salmonsnail posted a topic in Fossil ID
Well Hello, Folks! This is my first post on The Fossil Forum. With my first ever fossil find! Just for some background, I was hiking in the badlands on a private property (with permission, friend of a friend), and I stumbled up a crusted-dirt hill when I knocked loose this black thing that went tumbling down the side of the hill behind me. It didn't look like a rock and I had to take a look. No kidding. An oyster fossil. I've never found a fossil before and I wasn't even looking for them! I was on top of the world. I took it to the land owner and asked if he wanted it. He said he's found plenty of clams and oysters before and that I could keep it. A little history about the area. Brewster County in West Texas (the Big Bend Region) was under water in an inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway during the mid-late Cretaceous period. This is the only time the area was under water and is a part of Big Bend prehistoric history, which I have a pretty good grasp on. My question is, can anyone identify what species of oyster this is? Or even the type of oyster? (I'm a geographer, I don't know my oysters...) Or can anyone point me in the right direction in terms of maybe a webpage or book I can find that would help me identify this? I'm so excited to share this on this forum and I can't wait to learn more from you folks. Cheers, Emma
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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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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. Thank you! Also, if anyone can please recommend the best fossil books pertaining to South Texas then please do so. We are interested in learning everything we can..
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I think I know what this is, but will hold off until other input is given..... found on the Brazos River in Texas, Pleistocene @Harry Pristis @Lorne Ledger @fossilus
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I found this tooth on the Brazos River in SE Texas today. It looks like a Bison p1 to me and is similar to one I found last year. This one is much larger leading me to question whether it is indeed bison
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Just trying to figure out if possible dinosaur or something else
Mikek718 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Just trying to figure out if possible dinosaur or something else. Location was in Texas, but not much else known.
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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From the album: North Sulphur River Texas
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Saturday I hit the North Sulphur River Texas and found a nice variety of interesting items.
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I found my dog chewing on this in our backyard after he had been digging. I'm curious as to what it may be, and whether or not I should let him keep it! It is roughly 7 centimeters wide at the base and 13 centimeters long. Found in Fort Worth, Texas. Any information is appreciated! Thanks!
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A few weeks ago, @oyo had a really interesting post about "Coral Lovers". It was a fascinating look at fossilized asexual reproduction of coral specimens - really beautiful too. I just recently brought home a bag of matrix from one of the Central Texas Cretaceous Glen Rose formation sites. And surprise surprise...I found a whole series of Orbitolina texana caught in the various stages of reproducing! So here is my "For Foraminifera Lovers" EDIT - so apparently, this is not asexual reproduction - could be merging of adults or recovering from wounding or just conjoined twins. Ah well. Still pretty cool. All orbitolinas are aprox 1/8 inch And then there's the "weird" ones - I think this one is tripleting : And this one....well, not sure what this one thought it was doing
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I found this piece and several others this past weekend. This is one of the smaller pieces, roughly 15”X9”X7”X2” thick. Please take into consideration my lack of fossil cleaning skills. It was found in the Hill Country of Texas, Bandera County.
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I dug up a log in my backyard, I would love to know if it is petrified wood.
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Here are my son’s finds. Turns out he found more than me and had better representative teeth. He had a real good eye on finding them, even without the strainer pan. My “readers” would not let me do the same. That is my excuse, lol.
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I FINALLY found one of the echinoids I've been looking for - a Pseudodiadema from the Lower Glen Rose formation of Texas. I have collected fragments from no less than FIVE different locations and @JohnJ assured me there was (to paraphrase) one out there with my name on it. So I believed him! And yes, i did finally stumble across my Pseudodiadema! Albeit hella squished! But that's okay...it's "technically" whole even if it won't be winning any beauty awards....I love it. I apparently have a thing for squished echinoids. Three of my favorites (that I have only found the single specimen so far ) are rather squished. Not broken, amazingly, just.....squished. Geologic forces at work, I guess. So this day....another really nice warm winter Texas day (but windy as heck- not good for my allergies, but I wore my mask), I headed out to another of my favorite Glen Rose spots (where I found that Heterosalenia last month), not really expecting to find much of anything, just out and about and saw this little lump sticking out of the clay. I dug it up and saw it was a big echie of some kind or another. Took it home, washed it off, and thought i had found a Tetragramma tenerum (wasn't really looking at it closely, just saw the tuburcles were perforate so not a phymosoma) and fortunately, John saw the picture and gave me the happy news that it was a Pseudodiadema! So while not exactly adding a new one to my collection...at least adding a better specimen! Also found a nice big Pagurus banderiensis crab claw - complete with top and bottom pincer (usually just find one or the other) And while I am showing the stuff from the Glen Rose, I also brought home a bag of dirt from the other site (the other day) and found some nice little tiny Crab Claws plus something.....really odd. Round Black Crinoids. I have found Isocrinus (the star shaped crinoids there) and a few of them were black (they are usually beige) but I have never seen nor heard of round crinoids from the Glen Rose Formation. Anyone know anything about that? They are mostly TINY - 2-3 mm but I did find one that is 6mm. I swear it looks just like the New York Devonian crinoids, but the matrix in the center is definitely Cretaceous! Strange strange....Anyways...here's the pics! Pseudodiadema aguileria 2 inches Top view....see how squished?? Didn't look like much in the ground, but it caught my eye! Crab Claw Calianassa sp 3 mm Crab Claw Pagurus banderiensis 25 mm Crinoid 6 mm Little ones - 2-3 mms the first one I found attached to the underside of a star shaped Isocrinus:
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A lot of what I learned from the trip, was learned here on the Forum. Thank you very much!! Went 1/2 of a day on Saturday, and 1/2 Day on Monday. 5 hour drive from South Texas but worth it. Made the trip with family, they have finds of their own. Not sure of what I have found here. Any help with identifications would be appreciated. The shark teeth are in rows of 8. Part 2 and possibly Part 3, will be posted later plus our first trip to NSR!!
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Hey Everyone, I need some help. Still not sure but think this might be a fossil piece of Lycophytes or similar species. Found North Sulfur River in Delta County, Tx about two weeks ago. I cannot find anything online that shows that this species or similar was in Tx. My web hunting skills are not the best in the world though. Any responses are greatly appreciated.
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Hey they’re all. Once again thank you so much for helping me to ID the fossils that I find. If anybody can help with this one it would be greatly appreciated, for my nephew and I are trying to figure it out. Thank you. We found it inside the loop of 410 in San Antonio, in a dried up creek bed.
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New connections in alligator family tree https://phys.org/news/2021-01-fossil-clarity-history-alligatoridae.html
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Found this in the outskirts of San Antonio Texas where The city cut into a hill for a road. Looks like it has a few bite marks. Any help to ID this would be much appreciated.
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