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Hello everyone. I began working in my backyard and discovered numerous interesting rocks and shell fossils. As a kid I collected rocks, but as I grew up my interests changed and I ended up an ESL teacher :D I don't know much about fossils and so I decided to join this forum with the hope of learning more. My house was built in the mid 20's and was previously grazing land near a creek (that at the turn of the century was dug into a man made lake). Please forgive me in advance for my lack of knowledge in this subject area. The photo I attached in something I dug up today. Those curved lines in the center are interesting, but I'm not sure what could have created such an impression. I'm just hoping to learn more and keep my inner child happy. Planting and looking at rocks also affords me the chance to spend more time under the Texas blue sky I love. 

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:Welcome-crab:to the forum from California!

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If you're a fossil nut from Palos Verdes, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, or Torrance, feel free to shoot me a PM!

 

 

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Fruitbat Regular Member

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Letty...

 

Welcome to The Fossil Forum from North-Central Texas!  

 

Looks like what you've got there is a bit of the bottom of the ocean that covered much of Texas during the Cretaceous.  I see what appear to be quite a few bivalve fragments in your specimen.  

 

Oh...by the way...I'm a former teacher (retired after 39 years in the classroom).

 

-Joe

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Welcome to the forum from Maryland! 

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“...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

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Welcome from Romania ! :)

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" We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. "

Thomas Mann

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Heteromorph Regular Member

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  Welcome to TFF from North Texas! The Cretaceous rocks in Texas are plentiful and in many places rich in fossils! The fossil in my avitar is an Ammonite from the Austin Chalk Formation that was found in the DFW area.

 

  Texas is a rich and rewarding state (paleontologicaly and otherwise), so keep on hunting!

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Welcome aboard from the central North Carolina coast !

Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt

Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers

 

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