outdoorfunblonde Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I love exploring this creek bed, there is so much to look at. Gorgeous view! These are my latest finds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Nice collection so far! Thanks for sharing. ~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...
PaleoWilliam Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakebite6769 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Great finds, looks like plenty of echinoids. Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to get my brother to go collect me Some as he lives in Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 An interesting assemblage of echinoids. Well done. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshunter Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Nice finds, like the echinoids. Glad your fur people enjoyed themselves----Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPlainPetrified Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Nice finds. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Excellent finds- all those echinoids and the mollusk internal molds. Any idea what geologic age? Did you train the dogs to sniff out those echinoids? I wonder how all of those things get found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcordova Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Love the big echie and the gastros! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amour 25 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Nice stuff indeed. Are those 3rd pic in what they call Devil toenails? I have some but only one side. Thanks for sharing. Jeff Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Very nice finds. Looks like you have a nice place to hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outdoorfunblonde Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Excellent finds- all those echinoids and the mollusk internal molds. Any idea what geologic age? Did you train the dogs to sniff out those echinoids? I wonder how all of those things get found. I believe they are from the Cretacious period. No, dogs are too spoiled to care why I'm there, they just go along to be my trustworthy body guards... LOL I am lucky to have good eyes, and I can spot these suckers if they are there... I have the eye for fossils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outdoorfunblonde Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Nice stuff indeed. Are those 3rd pic in what they call Devil toenails? I have some but only one side. Thanks for sharing. Jeff Thanks for the comments everyone... Devils' toenails...? Hmmm, never heard that before but it looks to fit the nick name, doesn't it?? Check out these fossils for looking like "toenails" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Great great finds. Rally love the echinoids. 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...
BobWill Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Love the regular echinoids. All I ever find is those heart urchins. Devils toenails are oysters, yours are just clam internal molds, forget the common name. If those things in the last picture used to be fossils they are too worn now to tell anything now. Yes, that all looks cretaceous. check out one of these maps for the formation. http://www.twdb.texas.gov/groundwater/aquifer/GAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outdoorfunblonde Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Love the regular echinoids. All I ever find is those heart urchins. Devils toenails are oysters, yours are just clam internal molds, forget the common name. If those things in the last picture used to be fossils they are too worn now to tell anything now. Yes, that all looks cretaceous. check out one of these maps for the formation. http://www.twdb.texas.gov/groundwater/aquifer/GAT The last pic are of what is called Rudistids, A cone shaped clam that was very different than the regular clams... they grew and kinda mimicked corals because they actually formed reefs in great numbers... Flat on one end, witha flap acting as a lid. Look it up, they arent "worn" by no means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 If you mean the ones in post #13 you're probably right with the ID but have a look on Wikipedia for the missing texture. It's funny, it seems like every time something's posted without an easy ID someone suggests rudist since the broken pieces of those things can take on some very different shapes depending on the preservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Rudists can be quite rude about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Ha ha! Good one Ryan. Just for grins I had a look at some of the posts listed when you search rudists on this forum. I chose these off the first page of over 200 posts and only include some where at least one person agreed with the ID. The ones suggested without anyone agreeing also prove my point about the catch-all nature of this trend. What a hoot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Rudists have a special place in my heart. They are the ones that got me into fossil hunting and coming to this wonderful website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 If you mean the ones in post #13 you're probably right with the ID but have a look on Wikipedia for the missing texture. It's funny, it seems like every time something's posted without an easy ID someone suggests rudist since the broken pieces of those things can take on some very different shapes depending on the preservation. I believe what she is showing us in post 13 is the casts of the central chambers. The rudist shells often dissolved away in those Lower Cretaceous limestones and what is left is the casts pf the internal chambers, both the large body chamber and often smaller vesicles that ran parallel to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outdoorfunblonde Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 I did not know WHAT I found when I picked these up (#13), and had fantasies of them being claws or teeth from a big monster... LOL But, 3 different people from 2 different sites gave me the same answer... and 2 of them I know are pretty darn good with their stuff, so, I decided to believe them! LOL I looked at several pics on web and no pics even came close... until one day, I was convinced! But, yes, so many variations of what it looked like! Unless, they really are teeth from T-rex... I wish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Yeah I've been leanin' toward Spinosaurus tooth all along ...We all wish ! Wonder what the Texas sized version of Spino would look like? Short freight train? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobC Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Those are definitely rudists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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