nautilus_dweller Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Hey y’all!!!! Currently in Bryan tx looking to hunt the brazos tomorrow! Anyone have tips or hints? I’ve heard the whiskey river is pretty good, I’m focusing on sharks teeth myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 No clue but that place is on my bucket list. I too love to hunt for shark teeth. Let us know what you find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 A brief 2001 article by Neal Immega of the Houston Gem and Mineral Society may provide a helpful hint or two: LINK. Good luck and good hunting! -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Good luck! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nautilus_dweller Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 3 hours ago, Fruitbat said: A brief 2001 article by Neal Immega of the Houston Gem and Mineral Society may provide a helpful hint or two: LINK. Good luck and good hunting! -Joe Thank you so much!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Whiskey Bridge...the other is just a song.... Collected there about a month ago with the Paleo Society of Austin. The river was low, and probably still is, so there were exposures at water level downstream of the bridge that were extra productive. But then it is always productive if you just dig a little. One member found two large (1") shark teeth and many smaller ones were collected as well. I picked up a few batoid teeth as well. Majority of teeth I found were small and from one layer just above a hard layer that forms a little ledge just upstream of the RR bridge. Oh, and you need to be on the South(west) side of the river. The North(east) side is just sand and dirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nautilus_dweller Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 23 hours ago, erose said: Whiskey Bridge...the other is just a song.... Collected there about a month ago with the Paleo Society of Austin. The river was low, and probably still is, so there were exposures at water level downstream of the bridge that were extra productive. But then it is always productive if you just dig a little. One member found two large (1") shark teeth and many smaller ones were collected as well. I picked up a few batoid teeth as well. Majority of teeth I found were small and from one layer just above a hard layer that forms a little ledge just upstream of the RR bridge. Oh, and you need to be on the South(west) side of the river. The North(east) side is just sand and dirt. O man! Wish I had seen this earlier! Didn’t get my notifications in time! We didn’t really find much sadly. Of course I got some little fossilized shells, and some really neat rocks. We went with a young man and he found one of those batoid teeth. I ask him to hold onto it but he skipped it across the river *shakes head sadly* My boyfriend was working a rig site in Caldwell and found some gorgeous larger shells, too bad it’s private :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fruitbat Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Looks like you've amassed a small collection of the typical gastropods from the Eocene Stone City Formation. The cone snail shell (probably Conus sauridens) looks like a particularly nice one. Often times they come out as multi-piece jigsaw puzzles. The preservation of the shells from the Whiskey Bridge site never ceases to amaze me. Those shells look pretty good for being about 42 million years old! Oh, by the way, as far as I know, all members of the family Conidae are/were venomous predators and there are actually cases of some of the larger living fish-eating species causing death to humans who accidentally pick them up. Fortunately, yours has been dead for too long to pose much of a threat! If you feel the urge to try to identify some of your finds, here's a LINK to a little pdf that Neal Immega put together that shows pictures of some of the more common finds. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I'm very impressed with those gastropod shells. Lovely preservation! I hope I do as well when I visit there next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 No shark teeth, but still some nice finds! 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...
Monica Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Your gastropods look to be complete right to their tips - very nice - congrats!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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