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Lrutherford

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Total newbie at fossils and to this forum.  Husband and I spent the weekend exploring the NSR in Ladonia Texas.  Had so much fun and think I found some cool stuff.  Definitely some teeth, some baculite? Maybe some petrified wood?  Thanks in advance for anyone who is kind enough to respond. 

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Ok, giving this a shot. 

Top left red - Burrows of some sort

Top middle tan - Burrow also but different time frame

Top right - Oyster shell but really beat up. Species might be Exogrya ponderosa but someone might have a better guess

Top right next to oyster - better pic might help

Bottom left - petrified wood pieces

Bottom tan - geological

Top bottom - Gastropod fragment but would like a close up pic or two of the top middle piece

Middle bottom - Baculite pieces

Top right bottom - Worm tubes

Bottom right - Baculite pieces and maybe one razor clam piece. Better pic of the left one

Teeth - they will probably need closer pics and I am no help with those. 

 

Now, I am just am armature so we will let the specialist see how close I got. 

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@Planko nailed most of these but I'll expand on a few points. I agree that the oyster is Exogyra ponderosa. The upper left are feeding traces, the ichnogenus Zoophycos. The chambered specimen among the gastropods is the nautiloid Eutrephoceras dekayi. Some more pictures of the worm fossils might help since there might be different things in there but the curved ones are Hamulus sp. There's two Hamulus sp. recorded from the NSR. The teeth look like Squalicorax kaupi (the complete one is for sure). Finally, there is a lot of mineral in the NSR that resembles petrified wood at first glance. I don't remember what is exactly but it is abundant.

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