acetabular Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) I went collecting at the Eocene Whiskey Bridge Locality and found a number of oysters (I presume) that I cannot find good IDs for online. I was wondering if anyone here had a better idea. I additionally found some bone fragments that I am curious about, though I don't know how well they can be ID'd. Edited February 20, 2022 by acetabular fixing term Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acetabular Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 Some better bone pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jikohr Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Hi! Cool stuff dude! Unfortunately, the oysters look to be weathered Cretaceous oysters, most likely Texigryphaea. When you went to collect from Whiskey bridge where in that locality did you find those? I ask that because there's some gravel that was dumped on top of the actual outcrop where there's vegetation (and a very tempting parking spot that cost me 400 dollars to get my car towed out) and there's some of these mixed in. There's also the gravel on the river itself that was washed there from further upstream where you get a lot of Cretaceous stuff, local petrified wood, and some Pleistocene bone bits mixed in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Cropped, rotated, and brightened: Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) Some of them may look like "indian paint pot", but that's only in my mind. Edited February 20, 2022 by abyssunder " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acetabular Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 Thanks for the replies! I collected on the east side of the river, which I now realize is the opposite side one wants to collect from lol. But yes, these oysters were scattered abundantly in the sediment along the bank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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