Brownwood Texas - Miles and Piles of Pennsylvanian

[JamieLynn]

Got to visit one of the Pennsylvanian era sites outside of Brownwood TX with the Paleontological Society of Austin (FIELD TRIP!) and was astounded by the variety of fauna and the COLOR!  Rocks in green, burgundy, purple and golds. Consequently, so were the crinoid stems! A rainbow of Crinoids! I was happy to find one little piece of an arm, also. Was  hoping to find a bulb, but did not...one of the other field trippers did though! Also, lots of beautiful horn corals, bryzoans, horn corals, a big and a little Belerophon gastropod, big and little brachiopods, some neat crinoid "spikes" and what I think are Echinoid mouthplates? Aristotle's Lantern parts? Confirmation or correction please!  

 

My best find of the day was a little hash plate of echinoid spines and tiny tiny plates. I was also happy to find a cidarid plate and spine. Still looking for that whole one!! My other "big find" of the day was a Petalodus shark tooth...sadly, just the root. But it would have been a BIG one!  I spent 5 hours hunting and could have easily stayed another 3 but it was a bit of a long drive home. I look forward to going out again! 

 

Rainbow crinoids: 

 

Echinoid Hash Plate: 

 

tiny piece of Crinoid arm

 

Echinoid Mouthplates? Or Crinoid parts?

 

Crinoid Spines: 

 

Not sure if this is another crinoid spine or something else?

 

Petalodus tooth Root: 

 

Belerophon Gastropods

 

Bryzoans

 

Neospirifer

 

Horn Corals

 

Punctospriferer Brachiopods

 

Fusilids?

[caldigger]

Looks like you stumbled upon a regular smorgasbord of various fossils.

Eat up!!!

[JamieLynn]

hahaha!! Yes! Chomp!

[connorp]

Pretty nice collection so far of some pretty iconic Pennsylvanian marine life. Pretty similar to what we have in Illinois, except we rarely get any gastropods.

[Nimravis]

You have some great finds there- congrats.

[Darktooth]

Love that Hashplate and the Bryzoans

[erose]

Fourth photo is crinoid calyx pieces. You have two types of crinoid spines. One comes off the cup and one off the anal sac I think. But don’t ask me which....

 

AND yes it was a great trip. I did finally find a Petalodus tooth, although in “kit form, glue required”

[deutscheben]

Super hash plate, it's got lots of great stuff on it!

[Archie]

Wow awesome variety of super cool finds, love the Punctospirifers the preservation on them is amazing!

[Monica]

Nice spiriferids!  I think Adam @Tidgy's Dad might like to see them 

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Monica said:

Nice spiriferids!  I think Adam @Tidgy's Dad might like to see them 

Yes, I already have had a quick drool. 

Yummy brachiopods, but a lot of the other pieces look quite delicious too. 

[JamieLynn]

y'all and the food references are cracking me up.....