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Some Miscellaneous North Texas (and Louisiana) Fossil Trips


Thomas.Dodson

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This past weekend I had the time to take some friends on their first fossil hunting trip and went to North Texas. I took them to Post Oak Creek, Lost Creek Reservoir, the North Sulphur River, and the Cane River site in Louisiana I posted about last time. I wasn't expecting too much since there hasn't been much rain and it'd be picked over but I was okay with that since even common material would be new to them. I also ended up having some decent luck myself so I wanted to post some of the finds.

 

At the Eocene Cane River Formation site I collected these bivalves which I hadn't collected from the site prior. Limopsis aviculoides I believe.

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These teeth appear to be Scomberomorus bleekeri, a common Eocene find.

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A nice Sphyraena sp. tooth.

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Physogaleus secundus were also new from the site for me.

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Some ray tooth?

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Some new lateral Striatolamia macrota alongside some old anterior ones from a previous trip.

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Multiple species represented in new small otoliths. There is a paper describing the otoliths from this site but I haven't been able to get a copy yet so I've only identified the larger ones from last time.

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Among the many Belosaepia veatchi was this unusual one. The "blade" is B. ungula like but the cavity is rather deep for that.

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New gastropod taxa that I haven't identified yet.

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From Post Oak Creek I wound up with some nice Pleistocene finds. Canis sp., probably a coyote.

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A muskrat tooth.

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Lots of Ptychodus whipplei this trip. Some of the nicest ones.

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The biggest Squalicorax teeth.

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Some sadly incomplete Cretodus but still nice.

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And my favorite tooth from the trip, a great colored little Cretodus. Love the contrasting tip.

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From the North Sulphur I got a nice little mosasaur terminal caudal vertebra. It's good enough for me from and more than I expected. I also got a nice living chamber from a Trachyscaphites.

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fantastic success - and a worthy 1,000th post!

Edited by Jared C

“Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg 

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3 hours ago, Thomas.Dodson said:

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This is actually a Heterodontus shark lateral tooth, nice find!

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Nice finds, your two new striatolamia are actually brachycarcharias lerichei 

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Really nice finds! I especially love those Eocene Cane River specimens. Congratulations and thanks for sharing. 

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