Brandy Cole Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 I recently got interested in fossil hunting when my family found a couple of fossils while wading in the river near our home. Everything my husband and I have found has been on a sandbar or in shallow water. I've been told the river can be a good place to find Pleistocene fossils of big mammals and reptiles. We've found several things that I'm hoping people can help me identify in the next few days, but it may be easiest to start with one that doesn't require a lot of pictures so I can test out this whole submission process. =-) We found this and debated about what it was. It didn't look like normal petrified wood, and it resembled a mammoth tooth fragment I saw on this site. Any info would be great. I have more pictures if they would be helpful. I'm looking forward to posting a few partial bones we've found and some reptile-related things (unless I'm guessing completely wrong on those) in the next day or so. Thank you in advance. --Brandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSRhunter Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Good eye! Yes it is indeed a mammoth tooth plate fragment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Nice Find, those parallel line are distinctive to Mammoth plates 2 The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Just think, y'all now hold a piece of one of those Pleistocene giants. Congratulations! 2 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntonia Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Definitely mammoth, I believe Mammuthus columbi is the only species present in Texas. Good luck with your continued hunting out there, those pleistocene areas yield some really cool stuff! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Thank you all for the help and information! I would never have known that's what it might have been if I hadn't seen a post on this site with a picture talking about how fragments look very different than the whole piece. My brother had a rock collection when we were little, and one of the pieces that impressed me most was a chunk of mammoth tooth he showed me when I was about five. I remember very little about it, just that it was amazing that we were holding something from a prehistoric animal, and it made a lasting impression. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Welcome to the forum/obsession, neighbor! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Cole Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 7 minutes ago, garyc said: Welcome to the forum/obsession, neighbor! Haha, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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