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I found what appear to me to be vertebrate fossils and one possible plant fossil near Devil's River in Val Verde Texas. Can anyone help with identifying these? Thanks. - Mike
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Can you help me identify these fossils from the devil’s river area in Texas?
SolFire posted a topic in Fossil ID
My grandparents own land on the Devil’s River in west Texas and I’ve been hunting fossils with them there since I was six years old. When I was younger I thought that these might be fossilized dinosaur bones, but I doubt that now. My grandparents think that they’re plants but I also doubt that. I’ve been thinking maybe they’re some sort of tube worm, or a coral, but I have a feeling that they’re something I don’t know of at all. So, I figured it would be good to ask here with hope that someone will know more than we do. I read this morning that the devil’s river limestone is Cretaceous. The fossil in the bottom left of this picture is a nice cross section of what I’m interested in. The distinct segments or chambers remind me of the structure of an ammonite or a nautilus, which made me wonder if they could be a shelled cephalopod. They seem to be hollow (at least some of them): I found this piece today and was happy to see such a nice cross-section of the intricate wall structure:- 9 replies
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