Xaita Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Been at the inlaws this week for a funeral in Kerrville TX. Been asking around about the possibility of fossils in this area and no one knows of anything. Have I been asking the wrong people? Anyone ever hunted in Kerr Co? I would think this part of TX would be pretty fossil plentiful. Sure would give me something to look forward to when we come visit the inlaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Geologic map shows Cretaceous - should be something there. One of the Texas experts should be along soon to let you know. Best of luck! Regards, 1 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...
Nandomas Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 (edited) Try Turritella snails on Hwy16, a couple of miles north of Kerville and cretaceous shells on road cuts on 173 from Kerrville to Bandera Edited January 5, 2011 by Nandomas 1 Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 You're up on the Edwards Plateau; karstic limestone, not too fossiliferous. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R0ckhamm3r Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Kerrville is smack in the middle of the Edwards reef complex. I have found a number of good specimens of Rudist bivalves and oysters around that area. Some of the formations present there are the Segovia, Fort Terrett and Kirschberg Evaporate. the Segovia and Fort Terrett are fossiliferous in places. The Kirschberg Evaporate is not, it can be identified by easily visible collapse structures and coarse brecia. Weathered exposures are best, as the Edwards group tends to be very hard and does not give up it's treasures easily. Hope you have good luck. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Roadcuts. Check them all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaita Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 As anyone who has ever driven through the Hill Country knows there are only about a million roadcuts and creeks in this area. I spent some time in the Guadalupe river yesterday. All I found was a recently deceased turtle shell. Heard some rumors of dinosaur tracks in Harper Tx. Next trip scheduled for February. Weather permitting I will be on the hunt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsauer Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Found this little jewel along an exposed section of reef in Kerrville. Olives continue to live in modern times from low tide to about 200 feet. This one lived between 1 and 5 million years ago....obviously has seen better days, during what could be described as the last time we had "global warming." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Found this little jewel along an exposed section of reef in Kerrville. Olives continue to live in modern times from low tide to about 200 feet. This one lived between 1 and 5 million years ago.... I think the fossils in the Kerrville area are way older than that; more like early Cretaceous? 1 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Found this little jewel along an exposed section of reef in Kerrville. Olives continue to live in modern times from low tide to about 200 feet. This one lived between 1 and 5 million years ago....obviously has seen better days, during what could be described as the last time we had "global warming." Your shell looks to be a weathered specimen of Euglandea a very carnivorous recent land shell. In the Southeast the species is rosea however I am not sure if it is the same in Texas or a different species. https://www.google.com/search?q=euglandina+rosea&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=AjQoU7CBOcj32QXW6oDwBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=622 1 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Schauer Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 I live near Turtle Creek roughly 8 miles from town. I have found a few early Cretaceous period Turritella shells in chert which is a sedimentary rock that includes flint which in itself are billions of micro fossils. A large piece of a mastodon tooth and even a few meteor fragments on the land I live on which is close to where they hold the folk life festival. So yes it is not that hard to find if you don't mind a little digging, searching and breaking open some rocks. I have no photos at this time but will take some and upload in the near future. Happy Fossil Hunting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frizzlefossil Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 On 4/29/2018 at 12:10 PM, Ken Schauer said: I live near Turtle Creek roughly 8 miles from town. I have found a few early Cretaceous period Turritella shells in chert which is a sedimentary rock that includes flint which in itself are billions of micro fossils. A large piece of a mastodon tooth and even a few meteor fragments on the land I live on which is close to where they hold the folk life festival. So yes it is not that hard to find if you don't mind a little digging, searching and breaking open some rocks. I have no photos at this time but will take some and upload in the near future. Happy Fossil Hunting! Sooo um do you have the pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 @Frizzlefossil Please note that @Ken Schauer has not logged onto the Forum for about 2 years. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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