CraigHyatt Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I wasn't going to post this because it was in such bad shape. Is it also an ammonite? From Escondido Formation, Upper Cretaceous. Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoWilliam Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I wasn't going to post this because it was in such bad shape. Is it also an ammonite? From Escondido Formation, Upper Cretaceous. image.jpeg It looks like one to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 It looks like one to me. Thanks. I didn't know they could be that tiny. :-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I wasn't going to post this because it was in such bad shape. Is it also an ammonite? From Escondido Formation, Upper Cretaceous. image.jpeg Scaphites sp., Craig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Scaphites sp., Craig? Let me research it Guguita. Thanks for the tip! It is just a fragment I picked up yesterday while I was looking for shark vertebrae. I tossed it in my bag as an afterthought. :-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) Let me research it Guguita. Thanks for the tip! It is just a fragment I picked up yesterday while I was looking for shark vertebrae. I tossed it in my bag as an afterthought. :-) In fact, I think the specimen is almost complete (but I'm not sure). Edited June 16, 2016 by Guguita2104 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 In fact, I think the specimen is almost complete (but I'm not sure). Awesome! I will study it closely. I out hiking now in our beautiful desert just next to the Rio Grand on the border with Mexico. As I look around, I am thinking that I probably pass right by a giant mosasaur flipper and never see it. And when I sit down to rest, I see all sorts of tiny fossil bits in the dirt. Until I learn a lot more, I am like a blind man out here. But you gotta start somewhere. As Goethe said "Aller Anfang ist schwer." :-) Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guguita2104 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Awesome! I will study it closely. I out hiking now in our beautiful desert just next to the Rio Grand on the border with Mexico. As I look around, I am thinking that I probably pass right by a giant mosasaur flipper and never see it. And when I sit down to rest, I see all sorts of tiny fossil bits in the dirt. Until I learn a lot more, I am like a blind man out here. But you gotta start somewhere. As Goethe said "Aller Anfang ist schwer." :-) Fantastisch Satz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) But you must know this one: Edited June 16, 2016 by doushantuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 No doubt an ammonite, and I too think it is almost complete. Great find. Each time something new like this is found and ID'd it sharpens the eye for the next trip. No telling what you will find next!!!! 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...
CraigHyatt Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 But you must know this one: Wow! That's a dynamite ammonite! I wonder what about its environment allowed it to get so huge? Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) I think (practically)unlimited food resources might have something to do with it. I don't know where that pic was taken Craig,might have been Germany.Parapuzosia IS found in the cretaceous of the US,BTW Primary production was high in the Cretaceous Edited June 16, 2016 by doushantuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Wow! That's a dynamite ammonite! I wonder what about its environment allowed it to get so huge? I've seen evidence of some nearly 5 feet in diameter in Central Texas. This was a 4 footer. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 I've seen evidence of some nearly 5 feet in diameter in Central Texas. This was a 4 footer. I have seen a nautilus in an aquarium, so it's easy to imagine an ammonite swimming along. I am staring at the wall imagining a 5 ft ammonite going by. That must have been a sight to behold. Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Mehr einfach mit Zeit! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Mehr einfach mit Zeit! Gesundheit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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