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It's been a few years of hunting for me now. What began as a spontaneous trip to North Sulphur River, spurred by childhood nostalgia, has become something of a gnawing beast that constantly nibbles at the corner of my consciousness. What will the weather be like this weekend? When will I have another three-day break? Is the car road-trip ready? Do I have the right foot ware for the locale? Is that unprepped fossil an ammonite or a nautilus? When will I finally find my first mosasaur tooth? And on and on... I've often wondered if this is a pre-midlife crisis. The time I get to spend outside is usually enjoyable, even when the weather is inhospitable. Is it madness that I am picking up ammonites at Lake Texoma among rocks covered in icicles? Possibly. Why worry about freezing cold water creeping over the tops over your boots when there is a beautiful vertebra with an ebony patina sitting in the gravel bar across the channel? I've hunted the well known sites up until now. North Sulphur River, Whiskey Bridge, Post Oak Creek. I have still much to learn about these places and the fossilized remains found there. But alas the gnawing beast isn't satisfied with only a handful of locations, regardless of their charm and ability to still surprise. So with a few carefully coordinated research tools, new sites began to slowly appear on my radar. I'm gettin' around. Considering this was one of my first scouting missions, this trip was pretty productive. The finds below are all from Bosque County, and likely came from several units: Comanche Peak, Edwards, and Fort Worth. All Cretaceous. Urchins, clams, gastropod steinkerns, oysters, prints. Let me know what you think. Until the gnawing starts again, ladies and gentlemen...

Clearing some brush under an old red oak and found these

Hey Everyone! My name is Hogan and I'm an Associate Producer at Rugged Productions. I'm currently doing research for a new show concept and I'm looking for the best and most unique fossil hunters / collectors / buyers / sellers! Please let me know if this reminds you of someone (or of yourself). Thank you!

Got a chance to get off of work early so I hit a new creek I wanted to check out. I'm glad I did. I was only out for maybe 2 hours. These are my first ammonite and echinoid finds and now I want more!! I'm not use to creek hunting as I'm use to road cuts and mountain terrain

I found this about 30 years ago in a creek by my house. No one has been able to identify it yet. Any help would be appreciated.

I found a site where everything is a fossil. Specifically, I could gather 1,000 heterasters in an hour, and there's shelves of ammonites. (See pictures below.) I have two questions: (1) Is a site with a crazy high concentration of heteraster (and associated species) and ammonite fossils out of the ordinary, or are there lots? (Know what I'm saying?) (2) When you find a great site, what do you do?

I keep finding these things. What are they?

I'm in the DFW area and went to Inspiration Point yesterday. Can anyone tell me what this is? Is it worth packing home in my luggage? I have some other mysteries that I'll post later. Have to get ready for work!

This was found in south Tarrant County, (Fort Worth) TX, 6 to 8 feet deep, from oil and gas pipeline dig, so I don't know the formation. Need help identifying if this is a track. As always, thanks in advance for your help.

Here's a couple of items. I usually pick up anything that looks interesting... This first one was found in a Ft. Worth creek bed. The second one was also found in a Ft. Worth creek bed. I have been scraping in on it a little. I have reached the image limit so I will post some others in a reply below Cheers, Sergej

These are from a creek bed in Forth Worth. I believe the first one to be a piece of petrified wood. I like the color and shine. I thought the second one was wood too but the surface as a very different look with fine lines and the side of it has all kinds of lines without an apparent pattern. Cheers, Sergej

Hi, I registered for the forum well over a year ago but due to other things occupying our time have not had time to post anything yet. In the mean time, we have been going on short fossil hunting trips in the Dallas -Ft. Worth area and there's a bunch of items we found that we know or think 'are something' but do not know exactly what. Here's the first two. These were found in a creek in Ft. Worth. The first one looks very much like the gastropod Trichotropis Sumardi on Lance Hall's gastropod page. Here's ours: The second one is different but could also be some form of gastropod? What intrigues me about this one is are the black 'dots' which appear to be another kind of material, kind of what I would expect some fossil shark tooth to look like (in terms of color and material). Could it be some kind of coprolite? This is my first post with images - hope they make it through I have a bunch more to post; Would it be recommended to create a separate post for each item (or set of similar items)? Cheers, Sergej