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24 minutes ago, Kane said:

Size and location, please. ;) 

 

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Its in cotulla texas 

 

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Without size and location it's hard to tell exactly what's in there, but yes they appear to be "sea shells" mostly.

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Thanks for providing a scale. :) 

 

If you want to have a better understanding of the local geology, pay a visit to the USGS to locate a geologic map of your area. This should furnish a great deal of information regarding the relative age of your finds. From there, you will also be able to better identify the fossils that are local to the places you collect from. :) 

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Maybe a rudist colony? :headscratch:

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I see the tag being Cotulla. I'm not familiar with the region, but according to W. L. Fisher, J. H. McGowen. 1967. Depositional Systems in the Wilcox Group of Texas and Their Relationship to Occurrence of Oil and Gas. Geological Circular 67-4 , the geological age could be Lower Eocene, from the Cotulla Barrier Bar System?

 

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"The Wilcox Group (Lower Eocene) is a thick sequence of predominantly terrigenous clastic sediments and volumetrically a significant part of the large terrigenous fill of the western Gulf Coast Province. "

 

I think, there could be oysters in the matrix, maybe Ostrea duvali or similar.

 

 

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