Texas and New Mexico Dino tracks

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Wow is all I can say. I cannot believe what I have managed to find this week alone. I went to Texas for a vacation, and I’m coming out with some of my best fossils (in my opinion) I’ve found this year. I came here hoping to score some trace fossils of what once lived here, and score some, I did! Since there are two different time zones, and 4 different types of fossils found, I’ll split them up based on environment, and time. With marine fossils going first and tracks going second. Permian first, and Cretaceous second. I’ll do a picture of the whole haul and then we’ll get started. I also was able to capture some tracks that weren’t collectible so I collected them with my camera. Taking a fossil out of its place in a rock like that causes more damage than it does good, so all tracks were already eroded out and separated from anything scientific. Anyways, here’s the stuff:

 

Permian Marine Fossils:

 

 

 

Permian Footprint:

 

while collecting today, I was hoping for a Permian footprint. Literally as I was about to leave, I found it! There was also another footprint attached to the rock but it fell off and scattered along the debris of similar colored rock. I wasn’t finding that anytime soon! But anyways, here it is. You can see a few sets of claw marks from the amphibian that once walked across it. 
 

 

I’m really happy I found this on a small rock and not one that I would have had to leave behind. 
 

cretaceous marine fossils:

 

I also found a nice crab claw but it was so embedded into the rock that I just took a picture of it. Some things are better left to be appreciated by other people!

 

 

cretaceous footprints: 

 

I found a bunch of footprints embedded into the rock, I of course didn’t attempt to take these out of their rightful place and I left them to be admired by others.

 

 

I found one eroded out of the rock, and broken and incomplete, but it’s a footprint none the less. I’m pretty happy about all I found in general. 

It’s hard to see but the first two toes are there, and the only reason I’m confident this is a footprint is due to the fact that there were others around. All around a great trip and I still have more to find because I haven’t left yet!

 

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I went back here and I got some more footprints photographed. Here they are!I’ll be going out for some more shells and more Permian footprints soon so stay tuned in the next few days!