Return To The Glen Rose - Cretaceous Tx - Site Pics Included

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Well, when the fossils start calling, I must answer

Here are some site pics and a few pics of my finds. I only spent an hour hunting as to not cause pain in my back, so I took several site pics so I didnt have to keep bending over and picking up fossils ...But you know me and my gastropods...had to bend over and pick those up...

I have hunted this site for over 6 years and I am still BLOWN away by how many fossils are still at the site! Its also amazing how so many different species inhabited the tiny area I hunt. Amazing!

Enjoy!

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Site pics

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This pic shows hows the vast variations of fossils all mixed in together.

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Oops, I didnt even see the Salenia texana until I was looking at the pictures, its at my little finger pointing to it, I just didnt know it

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Yep..more,

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Lots of worm tubes here!!!

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Porocystis globularis is the name given to a dimpled grape-shaped object common in the Glen Rose. Scientists have disagreed over its classification, but now believe it to be an algal fruiting body. There are seriously MILLIONS of these!!!! This must have been such a lush place a million years ago!

Corbula divider from upper and lower Glen Rose

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Corbula divider from upper and lower Glen Rose

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(Not a fossil)

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Great shots! (Do you do your nails just for fossil hunting?! )

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My fossil hunting dog

Love to find these in any condition

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More site pics, sorry for not including all the names of the fossils, but they are the same as always for my site....gastropods, bivalves, Heterasters, Salenia texana......

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This tiny little area is FULL of fossils...I couldnt collect them all even if I wanted to or I would need to buy a new house just to store them

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Heteraster in the marl

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- This is rare to my site...I am not even sure what it is?

My other fossil hunting dogs

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Big Gastropod