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I love exploring this creek bed, there is so much to look at. Gorgeous view!

These are my latest finds...

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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.

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An interesting assemblage of echinoids. Well done. :)

The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true.  -  JJ

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Nice finds, like the echinoids. Glad your fur people enjoyed themselves----Tom

Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!
"Don't Tread On Me"

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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.

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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

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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!

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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"

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Great great finds. Rally love the echinoids.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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!

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Rudists have a special place in my heart. They are the ones that got me into fossil hunting and coming to this wonderful website.

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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.

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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!

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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?

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