K-boy Cachers Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 When our town turned a local field into a park, they had to dig a reservoir-type area to deal with neighborhood drainage and occasional flooding. We live in a very fossil friendly area, and my 10 year old has the 'bug,' so when his brother has soccer practice at this park, he's off to drainage ditch. On Sunday, he dragged me down there to see his new fossil gold mine. Now, I must admit, that in our "Walnut Formation" in the central Texas Lower Cretaceous, we find a lot of ammonite chunks (oxytropidoceras), but we've not found a whole one. Until Sunday. We saw a portion that, though cracked, looked like it might have more to it, hiding in the rocks and mud. But we didn't have any tools with us. So at tonight's soccer practice, it was on like Donkey Kong. We left it in place due to it's fragile state, but this is what we found. We had a lot of fun and really enjoyed digging this out a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 oxytropidoceras Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squali Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Time well spent. It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I would go get it and carefully glue it back together! I would pay anything to find something like that in WI/IL! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanB Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Very exciting find! Jean JeanB Montreal, QC, Canada Ordovician, Trenton group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Absolutely...carefully extract and glue back together. A great find that could be ruined by others who have less interest or control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Awesome. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarqusandDad Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 If only I could find something like that here in Wisconsin but alas it is not to be..... You do really need to preserve that piece, stabilize it then dig it out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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