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I have had some time to do some personal prepping this month.  Here is my contribution.  This is an Eocene mammal tooth from southwestern Wyoming.  Collected by me in 2009, (despite what the label in the photo says), and prepped in the past few weeks.  

 

Specifically, this is a canine tooth from one of the early Eocene's largest mammals... Coryphodon.  The preservation is not great, but it is a large tooth and a cool beastie.  

 

I don't have any field shots, but here is a before photo exposing it in the plaster jacket.

 

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and the final product:

 

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This tooth is part of a pretty good collection of Coryphodon bones (no skull).  Included in this little jacket is an incisor, seen as the lump in front of the left side of the canine in the 'pre' photo above.  And here is that little incisor all prepped.

 

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Found February 12, 2019 

Allocrioceras hazzardi  

Boquillas formation, Late Cretaceous 

Brewster County, Texas

 

Found during my vacation to Terlingua and Big Bend during the week of Valentine's Day. My first heteromorph ammonite. Thanks to @Uncle Siphuncle for the ID. 

 

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February 23, 2019

Neithea irregularis

Comanche Peak formation, Cretaceous

Bosque County, Texas 

 

I found this little guy in a road cut while scouting for new fossil sites last Saturday. The sun actually came out briefly. Thanks to @JohnJ for assist on the ID.

 

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Foundation 13th of February

Graptocarcinus texanus

Buda formation, Cretaceous

Bexar county, Texas.

 

Fairly rare find, especially this far south, don't tell anyone I found two of them within 30 minutes of hunting :muahaha:

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