Thomas.Dodson Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 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. These teeth appear to be Scomberomorus bleekeri, a common Eocene find. A nice Sphyraena sp. tooth. Physogaleus secundus were also new from the site for me. Some ray tooth? Some new lateral Striatolamia macrota alongside some old anterior ones from a previous trip. 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. Among the many Belosaepia veatchi was this unusual one. The "blade" is B. ungula like but the cavity is rather deep for that. New gastropod taxa that I haven't identified yet. From Post Oak Creek I wound up with some nice Pleistocene finds. Canis sp., probably a coyote. A muskrat tooth. Lots of Ptychodus whipplei this trip. Some of the nicest ones. The biggest Squalicorax teeth. Some sadly incomplete Cretodus but still nice. And my favorite tooth from the trip, a great colored little Cretodus. Love the contrasting tip. 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. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) fantastic success - and a worthy 1,000th post! Edited January 28, 2022 by Jared C “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomotodon Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 3 hours ago, Thomas.Dodson said: This is actually a Heterodontus shark lateral tooth, nice find! 1 1 The Tooth Fairy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Nice finds, your two new striatolamia are actually brachycarcharias lerichei 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Nice haul, Thomas. Looks like the trip paid off for you after all. And I'm sure there was some good comradeship along the way. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neanderthal Shaman Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Love those Ptychodus teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Really nice finds! I especially love those Eocene Cane River specimens. Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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