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From the album: Ammonites
Worthoceras sp. from the Eagle Ford Formation of Central Texas.© John Jackson
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From the album: Ammonites
Worthoceras sp. from the Eagle Ford Formation of Central Texas.© John Jackson
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From the album: Ammonites
Worthoceras sp. from the Eagle Ford Formation of Central Texas.© John Jackson
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From the album: Ammonites
Worthoceras sp. from the Eagle Ford Formation of Central Texas.© John Jackson
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From the album: Ammonites
Worthoceras sp. from the Eagle Ford Formation of Central Texas.© John Jackson
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From the album: Ammonites
Worthoceras sp. from the Eagle Ford Formation of Central Texas.© John Jackson
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On Sunday afternoon I went out with Keith Minor to a North Texas site exposing the lower Arcadia Park formation and (possibly?) the top of the Britton Formation (lower Turonian, upper Cenomanian respectively). The hunt almost never happened after various storm cells were menacing us and the high winds were thrusting cranes into sky scrapers and whipping up emphysema inducing dust clouds. Yet, even though everyone around us was getting Kansas blown at them, we were only exposed to the high winds and rain so cold and blown so hard that it felt almost like hail. But that lasted for only a few min
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I recently went hunting for my first time in the Turonian Arcadia Park Formation, an Eagle Ford group shale formation in North Texas. I found some great fossils, but many of them are fragile. I found a Worthoceras sp. specimen in matrix that seems to be on the verge of falling apart, and a very small Metoicoceras sp. specimen in a similar situation. They both have the nacreous shell preserved. Many of the other ammonites that I found tend to flake bits of the white shell while I am handling them. What can I use to consolidate the specimens so that they don’t fall apart and so that the shell do
