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So I’m at a point where I think it’d be best to just show you the entire thing that I’m currently looking at, aside from the tons of pieces that I’ve set aside all around this pit I’ve got now. I don’t expect this to sway anyones opinions but it’s very likely the last post I’m going to leave until I can finish cleaning around the edges of it—whatever it is, or isn’t, potentially. So I guess I’m asking now, is this also typical for limestone? Again, I’m on the far northwest edge of San Antonio, pretty much on the helotes hill country city limit—just a couple of miles east from government canyon state park. This is in my backyard, about 3 feet or so deep, though I’m unsure of the elevation, my house is right at the top of a small hill…for whatever that’s worth. I found that piece I posted earlier, the one which is decidedly (not) a skull section—near where the orange spade is sitting just further outwards, where the dirt ledge is in the picture (these pictures aren’t the very most recent, since the rains have made a proper mess of everything for the past couple of weeks). Once it finishes drying out again I’ll get pics of the result after I’ve cleaned it all back up again, since I’ve uncovered quite a bit more since these were taken. So… let me have it lol what y’all thinking? Am I just the most hardheaded limestone farmer you’ve ever seen or is it at least apparent where my current predicament…conundrum…stems from?  By the way, I suspect it won’t matter but for the record, what I keep seeing or believe I am seeing, is a partially if not mostly still-fleshy fossil form…as if it were preserved while in a mostly intact or possibly a partially decomposed state…so what I continue to believe that I’m finding aren’t just bones, in fact the only real bones I’ve been thinking I have seen have been the ones visible in these photos, sticking out of the central section. Apart from those, I’ve been finding what I believe could be scutes, that partial beak looking rock, possible toe or tail bones, and possible teeth or teeth fragments. The rest of the pieces I have found which do not look like normal rock to me has looked to me on the surface like almost preserved ‘skin’ or “outer” laying tissues, with the form resembling muscular and bony shapes. Since those were in my opinion even less pronounced and even more difficult to adequately present through photos, I’d been singling out the more defined pieces, though there are dozens of others which I feel suggest something fossil in nature which I’ve not yet photographed properly and likely won’t for the purpose of posting them here depending on the overall consensus of this last inquiry.  That being said, I did throw in a few I’d taken of one such piece that I thought displayed some of that type of texture I just mentioned, so that’s what those last few of the single rock are doing there. 


So I’d love to hear your thoughts once more and as always I’m incredibly grateful for your time and each one of your responses and feedback. Thank you all so much again.66E0B049-3D4D-4AD0-88DE-82594C6EDB29.thumb.jpeg.954807447c94d3e4a45e3b0edc9dd926.jpeg

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4 minutes ago, 3RZUL13 said:

Am I just the most hardheaded limestone farmer you’ve ever seen

I dont know about the hardheaded part but as for the rest…. I’m afraid so…i’m seeing a lot of limestone. Nothing fossil related…..

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9 minutes ago, 3RZUL13 said:

So I guess I’m asking now, is this also typical for limestone? Again, I’m on the far northwest edge of San Antonio, pretty much on the helotes hill country city limit—just a couple of miles east from government canyon state park.

 

I don't know if being very familiar with the rocks in your area gives my opinion any more credibility, but "yes", this is typical for limestone outcrops in your area.  Use this map to identify your local formation. 

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Limestone farming at it's best.  Sorry.  :(

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Sorry, I agree with the others.  Also, skin very rarely fossilizes, so what looks like skin and muscles to you isn't.  "Bodies" don't keep their shape when they fossilize...you will likely only find teeth and bones, or teeth and vertebrae, depending on the animal.

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My favorite things about fossil hunting: getting out of my own head, getting into nature and, if I’m lucky, finding some cool souvenirs.

 

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