darrow Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 We had a really low tide Thursday with the cold front came through so before work I made a quick trip to check a favorite spot and picked up another partial tooth. The 5th one I've found in perhaps 15 visits to the same 100 yards of shoreline. Darrow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace river rat Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 That is awesome. I live 2 miles from the peace river. I hunt obsessively and have only found many fragments, I refuse to quit though. Awesome find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Nice morning wake-Me-up!! Tony 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...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 That's a pretty good Texas example, better than my last, which was out of context and caught me by surprise. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Wow!!! I did not know that mammoth fossils could be found here in the Galveston Bay area. "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Nice tooth, congrats! You may want to consider diving where they're doing the dredging at. Never been to Texas, but on this side of the Gulf we get pretty good visibility in the bays at times. Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Very nice tooth! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 3 hours ago, jcbshark said: Nice tooth, congrats! You may want to consider diving where they're doing the dredging at. Never been to Texas, but on this side of the Gulf we get pretty good visibility in the bays at times. I am NAUI certified but the currents in the area are treacherous and more often than not the water looks like a yellowish chocolate milk because of the sediments and clay. A commercial diver said sunlight rarely penetrates more than the first 10 feet. The fossiliferous layer is around 20 or 30 feet below the bay floor. From the condition of the fossils, its obvious they were pretty much undisturbed some probably complete articulated specimens before the dredge cutter head hit them chopping them to pieces. I often think what it would be like to drop a large caisson in the channel. Darrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calhounensis Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Sounds a lot like black water diving on the east coast. If the payout is worth the effort, it could be an interesting endeavour. If you don't have the training and you are content picking up the fossils on dry land, I wouldn't recommend it. 20-30ft in limited/zero vis. isn't too bad. It is not a fun environment if you're in the wrong mindset or lack training and experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Nice tooth. Fantastic find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smt126 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I love the colors on that 2nd picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcordova Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Nice tooth! Congrats.... Ramon, Darrow, are you members of HGMS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Yet another fine example of Texas Proboscidea. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 20 hours ago, lcordova said: Nice tooth! Congrats.... Ramon, Darrow, are you members of HGMS? No, but looking forward to join it!!! "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 On 2/6/2017 at 11:09 PM, lcordova said: Nice tooth! Congrats.... Ramon, Darrow, are you members of HGMS? I am not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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