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Slow North Sulphur River Texas Trip


JarrodB

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Weather was beautiful so I took a long 7 mile hike with my buddy at The North Sulphur River Texas. We mainly found footprints but we had a good time. Here's my finds of the day. The large piece of Protostega carapace was my favorite find. 7 mile hike in hip boots and sticky mud probably equals 10 mile hike. lol

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Where did you find the strange looking guy next to the truck?:D

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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13 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

Where did you find the strange looking guy next to the truck?:D

That's a fossil in the making.

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You have a few decent finds there. What is the piece below the carapace?  

I found my first Pachydiscus ammonite and T. springer springer as well as a large Durania rudist  fragment too. I was so excited to find them, but especially the Pachydiscus. I haven’t found a rudist like that before.

I found this, but didn’t extract it. I don’t do a good job of extracting that sort of thing and they fall into like 20 pieces by the time I’m done with it. It was at least 10 inches across.

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You are right about the mud. My feet kept sinking into it ankle deep or more. I had to be very careful of where I stepped to not sink deeper than that. It definitely makes for a longer, more tiring walk. I think I walked about 5 miles, but it felt like a lot more. I was so worn out before I even got back to my car. It was such a beautiful day though.

 

I did run into a group of 4 people. Two of which were from Tyler. The other 2 I knew from DPS meetings.

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Just now, JarrodB said:

Some fish bone. I'm from Tyler also.

Yes I think you told me that at some point or another. That’s why I mentioned it. It was a man in his late 60s maybe with a teenage girl. I didn’t get their names.

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Nice finds Jarrod. The Ammonite is a nice one.

Totally understand about the mud.  Been there before.

Kim that is a very nice Ammonite. I would find it hard to not excavate it but understand not wanting to brake it up.

But you have a great picture of the find.

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On 2/3/2018 at 8:59 AM, oldtimer said:

Nice finds Jarrod. The Ammonite is a nice one.

Totally understand about the mud.  Been there before.

Kim that is a very nice Ammonite. I would find it hard to not excavate it but understand not wanting to brake it up.

But you have a great picture of the find.

Believe it or not that pic is taken through about 6 inches of water. The water, when flowing is so clear there.

I did provide a TFF member who lives near NSR the exact location of the scaphyties ammonite. I’m not sure if he made it out there to collect it though. I live about an hour away so I couldn’t just run back out there to try to excavate it more properly. 

 

@Monica

Baculites are very common out there. The trick is finding an unbroken one. This is one I found last weekend, a week ago.C5EB6917-AAB2-4643-941C-36FDD28E16CC.thumb.jpeg.5df4f8c3f3b29e63ff05fe526e45c3d5.jpeg

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Kim, that is some very clear water.  I did not know the NSR was so clear.

I would assume that being under water would make extraction pretty hard. 

But thumbs up for referring it to a TFF member.  :dinothumb:

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