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Woehr's Texas Meanderings - Ephemeral Edition


Uncle Siphuncle

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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.

Ecm 12 foot gator - Copy.jpg

Tarantula - Copy.jpg

W ater Mocassin Site.JPG

IMG_1700 - Copy.JPG

Rattlesnake.jpg

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Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas

"To the motivated go the spoils."

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Missourian

 

Archaeocidaris echinoids

 

 

Archaeocidaris - Copy.JPG

IPwl Archaeocidaris - Copy.JPG

IPwl Archaeocidaris Woehr 1a - Copy.JPG

IPwl Archaeocidaris Woehr 1b - Copy.JPG

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Petalodus ohioensis tooth

IPwl Petalodus ohioensis 2c - Copy.JPG

IPwl Petalodus ohioensis 2d - Copy.JPG

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Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas

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1 hour ago, Uncle Siphuncle said:

Petalodus ohioensis tooth

IPwl Petalodus ohioensis 2c - Copy.JPG

IPwl Petalodus ohioensis 2d - Copy.JPG

 

Round and round the mulberry bush, pop goes the toothy!

 

 

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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

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1 hour ago, Fruitbat said:

:popcorn:  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.

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Albian

 

I coaxed my kid off his computer long enough for him to score a big Coenholectypus planatus.

 

Kgr Coenholectypus planatus Weston 1b - Copy.JPG

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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.

Kdc Eopachydiscus marcianus 2a - Copy.JPG

Kdc Eopachydiscus marcianus 2b - Copy.JPG

Kdc Eopachydiscus marcianus 2c6 - Copy.JPG

Kdc Eopachydiscus marcianus 3a - Copy.JPG

Kdc Eopachydiscus marcianus 3b - Copy.JPG

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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.

Kfw Kdc Morts Eo Neithea - Copy.JPG

Kfw Mortoniceras 1c - Copy.JPG

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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.

Goniopygus 1a - Copy.JPG

Goniopygus 1b - Copy.JPG

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Albian.  Engonoceras serpentinum zone.  I like a little nacre from time to time, and it is in short supply in Texas.

Engonoceras serpentinum 3d - Copy.JPG

Engonoceras serpentinum 9b - Copy.JPG

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Let's move up section to the Cenomanian.  Engonoceras, Cymatoceras, Phymosoma, Pseudananchys (Craginaster?), and Coenholectypus all made the cut.

Kgy Eng Cym Coen Pseud Mar - Copy.JPG

Kgy Engonoceras 1b - Copy.JPG

Kgy Phymosoma volanum - Copy.JPG

Kgy Pseudananchys completa - Copy.JPG

IMG_1794.JPG

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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.   

Coilopoceras 1c.JPG

Coilopoceras 1d.JPG

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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.

Kau Placenticeras syrtale - Copy.JPG

Scaphites hippocrepis Inoceramus 1b - Copy.JPG

Scaphites hippocrepis Inoceramus 1c - Copy.JPG

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Campanian.  Let's start with some mosasaur stuff.  Mandible, coracoid, verts.  Quite obviously the NSR.

Koz Mosasaur  Mandible 1c - Copy.JPG

Koz Mosasaur Coracoid 1a - Copy.JPG

Koz Mosasaur Vert 1e - Copy.JPG

Koz Mosasaur Vert 1k - Copy.jpg

Koz Mosasaur Vert 1l - Copy.jpg

Koz Mosasaur Verts 1b - Copy.JPG

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More Campanian.  Placenticeras, Glyptoxoceras, mos verts, Xiphactinus vert.

Mosasaur Placenticeras Glyptoxoceras - Copy.JPG

Tylosaurus vert - Copy.JPG

Xiphactinus audax vert - Copy.jpg

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More Campanian.  Pachydiscus and some sort of shrimp.

Pachydiscus travisi - Copy.JPG

Shrimp - Copy.JPG

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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.

Lanieria uvaldana 1a - Copy.JPG

Lanieria uvaldana 1b - Copy.JPG

Lanieria uvaldana 1c - Copy.JPG

Petalobrissus Salenia 1a - Copy.JPG

Salenia pseudowhitneyi 1a - Copy.JPG

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Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas

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Other party favors came to hand during my field efforts.  Texas has a few Hardouinia echinoids lying around in the Campanian as well.

Hardouinia - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 2c - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 3a - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 3b - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 5a - Copy.JPG

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A few more Hardouinia.

Hardouinia 5b - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 5c - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 6a - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia 7a - Copy.JPG

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End of Hardouinia binge.

Hardouinia Kim Cox 1b - Copy.JPG

Hardouinia Kim Cox 1c - Copy.JPG

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