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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Echinoids
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It's been quite a while since I found any echinoids that I haven't found before - that's the problem with being a "sophomore" hunter...I've found all the basic stuff (but am always happy to find a better quality one, of course) but finding something that is not in my collection is getting harder and harder! I am going to have to start ranging further afield to find them.....sounds like time for some road trips! So I was quite happy this month when I made a couple of trips to Austin and managed to find TWO new to me echies! Both are a bit water worn, being tumbled in a creek for who knows how long, but that's okay. Both were found in Georgetown/Buda Formations. I initially thought this was a Leptosalenia mexicana because of it's size and shape, but then realized that this creek does not go through ANY Fredericksburg formations and was therefore more likely a Leptosalenia volana! YAY!!! First new Echie in quite a while! Size 3/8 inch 1 cm. Then in another creek in South Austin, I found this critter just waiting to be picked up! A little Hemiaster calvini ! Size 2 inches 5 cm. I took a day trip up to Hillsboro and went to a spot on Lake Whitney I had hunted a number of years back, I wasn't even sure it was still there, but it was, albeit very grown over! But found a few nice things - a couple of big Macrasters that were very "crunchy" but also a couple of nice smaller heart urchins. Although they are both small, I think they are Macraster texanus. Size 1 1/2 inch Size 2 inches And lastly, found another Holaster simplex. Not in great shape, but some of the test has good detail. Size 2 inches. And although this one isn't NEW, it is a new species! I was cataloguing my echinoids and turned this one over to get a good picture and lo and behold....it's a Coenholectypus ovatus rather than a C. planatus which I assumed it was! So yay!! Another new species! Plus, I found another better Goniophorus scotti. Not new, but better is better! Size 3/16 inch 5 cm So I am now at 34 different genus/species! Only a few more to go.....hahhahaha!! Okay, I might be JUST over half way there....maybe.
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