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Nice Blog on Quetzalcoatlus by Mark Witton https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2022/02/quetzalcoatlus-2021-strange-pterosaur.html?spref=tw Open access SVP Memoir 19 The discovery, local distribution, and curation of the giant azhdarchid pterosaurs from Big Bend National Park https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1780599

Hi all I am a new member, so excuse me if I break any guidelines or somehow make an idiot of myself with this post. I've only signed up after finding a few fossils earlier today. I found this, amongst other fossils, while hiking in Big Bend National Park in Texas. This area is well known for Cretaceous era fossils of shellfish in limestone deposits, it used to be a shallow sea, and you can see hundreds of fossils in canyon walls. This is one of the most interesting ones I saw, and I was hoping to found out a bit more about it. Unfortunately all I had with me at the time was my ipad, so I hope the photo quality is good enough. I didn't think at the time to take more. Also you are not allowed to remove fossils from the park, so I had to leave it. I found this while hiking the Hot Springs Trail, and it was found just lying in the path. I'm hoping there are some people out there that know Big Bend and could maybe help provide more accurate geological information. The trail runs alongside the Rio Grande River, running up high along the cliffs through the limestone shale (I think that is what it is) The whole trail is full of shellfish fossils, and I have heard of people finding ammonites in this area too. I did find more fossils that I would like to post up some time, but I figured I'd not spam the forum with all my ignorance in one go. I am still a novice in this area and have a lot to learn, but that is why I am here, I am just starting to study paleoanthropology (I've been wasting my life studying photography for the last four years) and I'm a volunteer docent at the Hall of Human Origins at Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, so I am possibly I am a bit more familiar with fossils than most, but i still have a lot to learn. So any contribution is appreciated. Cheers Ian