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It has been a while since I did an Echies of Texas post...too long!! But it's been an echinoid dry spell here for me.....I've found some lovely stuff, but just not anything NEW to me! I was given a couple of Echies that were new to me but I didn't TECHNICALLY find them, so they don't really count (for me...i'm particular that way!) . I will post pics of them because I am happy to have them in my collection regardless!! BUT, back to my personal urchin drought. . It's getting hot in Texas (Summertime...duh). But I still like to get out occasionally. I went a little further afield last week (only taking short day trips during this Covid Time) than my usual hunting grounds and found a new spot of Glen Rose Formation and found....AN URCHIN NEST! I've heard about these...a clump of multiple echies in one spot. I was too excited about my find and forgot to take pictures but there were five phymosomas in one spot...big ones too! And then a little further along....my first Tetragramma from the Glen Rose Formation! YAY! Drought broken! And, when it rains it pours. A few days later at another Glen Rose spot...i found more Tetras. And....I am pretty sure....a Polydiadema! So, needless to say, my Echie Game is back on. There are quite a few specific urchins that are still eluding me and not for lack of trying! I have been to the only spots I know of that I know they have been found, but alas. So the search continues! Another recent find, not new to me, but a really nicely preserved Phymosoma : (from a site just up the road from the Echie "nest") My first Tetragramma from the Glen Rose: Tetragramma tenerum .....i think. The Echinoid "nest" (plus the nice phymo from the other site up the road) My biggest Phymosoma to date....2 1/4 inches Another Tetragramma from the Glen Rose: And I THNK....a Polydiadema! Plus a nice little Heteraster with good detail Plus - My "acquisitions" to my collection thanks to my Fossil Friend John (who so kindly gave them to me!) An amazing Paracidarid (Glen Rose Formation) And a Globator parryi bottom of Globator:
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