Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 It has been a couple years since I made time to pull together some photos of personal finds to share. Inhospitable climes this past weekend afforded me the opportunity to organize a little eye candy for your viewing pleasure, arranged from geologically oldest to youngest. Provenance - for brevity, I'll just refer to the sites collectively as "Gulf of Mexico Watershed, Texas". Thanks for understanding and respecting. For more detail, go to Youtube and pull up Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere". I will say that the Texas Outback comes with its perils, as shown below. Some of the pics are grainy due to fleeting photo opps, but you can see a big gator sliding into the water, a curious tarantula, a snake (water mocassin?) exercising the "stand your ground" law, and a rattler that became tablefare at the Woehrhaus. I even had a "Hugh Glass" moment with an injured hog while out solo gigging this year, and was glad to come out on top. I should be able to complete photo adds to this thread today in short bursts. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Missourian Archaeocidaris echinoids Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 More Archies Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Petalodus ohioensis tooth Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 More! MORE! And yes...that IS a 'water moccasin' and a really big Western Diamondback! -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 1 hour ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: Petalodus ohioensis tooth Round and round the mulberry bush, pop goes the toothy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Nice so far!! Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Beautiful urchin plates and nice tooth extraction. Wild animals can be a big part of fossil hunting. Let's hope none of us meets up with a mountain lion. "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 1 hour ago, Fruitbat said: More! MORE! And yes...that IS a 'water moccasin' and a really big Western Diamondback! -Joe Hey Joe, stay tuned...I may have found a few things up your alley. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Albian I coaxed my kid off his computer long enough for him to score a big Coenholectypus planatus. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 More Albian, basal Duck Creek Fm, Eopachydiscus marcianus zone. When you find these things, you often can't get away from them. I took one small one in the 12 inch range this day, and one Macraster elegans echinoid. One must be abstemious when contemplating spousal approval vs. storage and display space back home. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 That Mac Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 More Albian, Mortoniceras equidistans zone. There are 3 Morts in the 100 LB slab I lugged back up the bank. The largest of the 3 has an intact rostrum if you inspect the photo closely. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Albian. I loves me some Goniopygus, one of my favorite genera of echs. This one came at the cost of a windshield, though. As much as I appreciate quarrying operations with regard to opening fossil venues, I despise gravel trucks on the highway, constrantly dribbling windshield-smashing gravel that makes its way into the path of hapless motorists. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Albian. Engonoceras serpentinum zone. I like a little nacre from time to time, and it is in short supply in Texas. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Let's move up section to the Cenomanian. Engonoceras, Cymatoceras, Phymosoma, Pseudananchys (Craginaster?), and Coenholectypus all made the cut. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 I find a few things from time to time in the Turonian, but this Coilopoceras ammonite is not a common occurrence in my normal haunts. Had this been a common Eopachydiscus in the Duck Creek in this condition, I would have left it for a flood or another collector, whichever came through first. But 14.5 inch ammonites in the Turonian are not the norm in Texas, so I appropriated it thusly. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Let's peek at a couple things from the Santonian. The first ammonite may be a small Placenticeras syrtale. I'm not sure about the second...Scaphites hippocrepis? Either way, it'll keep. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Campanian. Let's start with some mosasaur stuff. Mandible, coracoid, verts. Quite obviously the NSR. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 More Campanian. Placenticeras, Glyptoxoceras, mos verts, Xiphactinus vert. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 More Campanian. Pachydiscus and some sort of shrimp. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 The fun doesn't end there. The rough, globose echinoid may very well be a rare Lanieria uvaldana. I kinda like the Petalobrissus/Salenia association as well. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Other party favors came to hand during my field efforts. Texas has a few Hardouinia echinoids lying around in the Campanian as well. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 A few more Hardouinia. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 End of Hardouinia binge. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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