BudB Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I made my first trip to Post Oak Creek today. There had been rain in the forecast for yesterday, so I hoped for some newly washed out fossils, but Sherman got no rain. So, I knew things would be pretty picked over, but I decided to go anyway, and just hike a bit further down the creek than I normally might, to see if I could find a few teeth anyway. I stayed about three hours. The knee pads I bought yesterday were definitely a good investment. These old fart eyes need to be close to the sand bars to get within reading glass distance of those small teeth. I had also made a sifter, and carried out half a bucket of sand to go through at home. I had fun. That creek is an amazing fossil place. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudB Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 You really can't appreciate just how large of an area on the banks, and creek walls in places, that are covered with fossilized shell filled rocks, until you see it. I brought home this one rock to remind myself of what the place looked like, as well as try to explain it to others. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudB Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 There are truly fossil fragments everywhere on those sand bars. I was mainly looking for teeth, so I tended to ignore all the other stuff, but I couldn't resist picking up these two small gastropods. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudB Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 Rudists? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudB Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 Up until now, I had hardly found any shark teeth, so it was fun picking up teeth today. Is the tooth in that last photo a Ptychodus tooth? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Nice finds and Congratulations on a good hunt. You are correct about the tooth being a Ptychodus. 2 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Nice finds! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praefectus Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Nice Ptychodus tooth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSCHNELLE Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Yes. Nice Ptychodus whipplei! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Not bad for hunting picked over ground. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Nice finds! Is the item circled below a barnacle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudB Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 12 hours ago, Monica said: Nice finds! Is the item circled below a barnacle? I think it's just a pelycopod, a clam. It caught my eye because, unlike all the other thousands of clam shells around me, it had both halves of the shell, put together like a real live clam. It may just be shell halves from two different clams fossilized together. I don't know. That photo shows opposite sides of both the rock and the pelycopod fossil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudB Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 I sat down on my back porch yesterday afternoon and went through three sifters of sand from the bucket of sand I brought home from Post Oak Creek, and found these six teeth. My wife found four teeth in the sand yesterday morning. And there's still plenty of sand in the bucket. So, the idea of bringing home sand to go through later does work. I'm about to leave for the North Sulfur River this morning. That will be visits to Post Oak Creek and the North Sulfur River in the same week. This being off work time is fun, I'm thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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