darrow Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Collected at low tide this evening. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 That is amazing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Very cool find. Congratulations! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Quite rare in TX...first I've seen, actually. Well done. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Wow! Looks like a trip maker, to me. Congratulations on a rare find. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 VERY nice! I've only seen one capybara jaw fragment come from Texas and that was a small one from the Trinity River sands and gravels up here in the Dallas area. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Very nice,congrats! In all my collecting I've only found one partial tooth 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...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Beautiful Find! “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 I was sure classification would be relatively simple but I'm not finding much published about North American Capybaras. Also the species-level taxonomy is apparently in a state of flux. I'll call is Neochoerus sp. for now... Darrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Maybe @Harry Pristis would have an idea on what to call this or give you further information. (Sorry to put you on the spot, Harry) ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 That's really cool Darrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Back in the late 1980s when I was trying to identify the jaw fragment I mentioned previously (I didn't collect it but I was there when a close friend did), The best I could do was Neochoerus cf. pinckneyi. I'll poke around later and see if I can come up with anything new in the way of literature. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 Im back to the same spot and just found another partial tooth. Darrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 This is the best info I have: T 3 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Congratulations!! Great finds and great photos. You can draw what you find and you also hunt in the dark. There must be a story behind that.. The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 The story... I try to collect what the surf has recently released from the submerged clay while it's still in prestine condition. Material that gets washed Into the shells and sand at the high tide rapidly accumulate wear and damage. This time of year lowest tides are around midnight so that's when I have to collect. The drawing is from AMNH New York. (page 237, Fossil Vertbrates of Florida, Hulbert). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 The shells are numerous and some of them are quite large. I collected these the first couple times I visited the area... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 See these often at night. Two stripped walking stick. If the feel threatened they spray with some accuracy a pretty nasty quite painful chemical concoction. Also wild hogs occasionally. I prefer them to the rattlesnakes that like to sun them selves on the top of the bank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrow Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 Thanks Harry. Based on you examples I think the isolated tooth I found today may be a maxillary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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