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Need help on a post K-Pg 'seed'


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Don't know the ID, but intrigued with the "post k-pg". Can you actually see the boundary where you dig?

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

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The K-Pg is exposed in areas in the Denver Basin (from Denver to Colorado Springs)

http://www.corralbluffs.org/paleo.html shows a map

The specimen came from a D1 site (see link in original post for definitions)- so it is very early Paleocene- K-Pg was not evident in that area

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some of the quality of the image actually has to do with the specimen- it is in sandy loose matrix

I'll see if I can get sharper details

for now

I have attached the overview to show the company the item in question keeps

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some of the quality of the image actually has to do with the specimen- it is in sandy loose matrix

I'll see if I can get sharper details

for now

I have attached the overview to show the company the item in question keeps

For a specimen that small, I'd crop a full resolution photo (in other words, no compression at all). I sometimes do that with the 3.5MB images from my iPhone. With cropping, I can get them small enough to upload at full resolution.

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

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Brightened and contrasted:

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There is a lot of Glyptostrobus nordenskloldii at that site

(see image) -

so that sure could be possible

Do you have any reference material on that genus/species?

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