vagabond1 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I have found sea shell fossils in San Antonio since I was a teen. All of those have been found on the far Northwest side of town. I found this while taking a walk near Memorial High School. The pattern caught my eye and I dug it from the ground. It reminds me of an oyster shell, but wasn't certain. Does anyone know if shellfish are commonly found in the Culebra/36th Street area? And what is this shell and about how old would it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kman100 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 According to this map here: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/pics/texas92a.jpg , fossils from San Antonio are either from the quaternary (less than 2 million years ago) and the cretaceous (around 65 million years ago) -kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 i have a rotten track record with reviewing fossil pics for ID using my phone, but it looks like a partial exogyra oyster. i won't bet a paycheck on species ID from what i can see, but the genus should hold up. definitely upper cretaceous, campanian to maastrichtian in that area. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vagabond1 Posted March 1, 2014 Author Share Posted March 1, 2014 Thank you both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Herd to tell from the pix, but I think Exogyra is a good bet also. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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