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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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From the album: Micro teeth from East Texas creek
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Found in some post oak creek matrix. Roughly 4mm long. Seems too conical for a sharks tooth. Is this even a fossil?
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I made a trip to a creek in East Texas today and brought home a nice collection of very small teeth. It was the first time I've ever had success finding fossils less than an hour drive from home, and I was pretty pleased about that. This was a Kincaid Formation outcrop. The teeth came from a shell hash that was on top of some very hard limestone. Some of the matrix which contained the teeth was the same gray as the limestone, and some of it was a tan color. I looked at a lot of identical looking matrix which had nothing but shell fragments in it, but once I found teeth, there were more teeth nearby. I had to chisel into the matrix to find teeth, so as I searched for teeth, I just kept tossing matrix pieces into my backpack to take home. So now I have a bunch of matrix to go through. I'm looking forward to doing that in my air conditioned house rather than outside in today's 98 degree temperatures. LOL. I made an early day of it after it got so hot, heading home before 1:00 in the afternoon. I'll post a reply after I've gone through all the matrix. Here are some matrix pieces I brought home. The upper two are the same gray as the limestone they were on top of. But there was also some tan matrix mixed in, like those two bottom pieces. Both had teeth in them. Two teeth in the matrix on this rock. The top one was still attached to the matrix, but the bottom one was loose inside a hole that it looked like someone chiseled. So much for my secret spot. Some of the matrix I brought home had teeth that weren't too hard to spot. Here are the 20 teeth I've found so far. I'm going to have to do some research to identify some of them. The Kincaid Formation and Paleocene period are both new to me. The surprise of the day was a single small ptychodus tooth I found. Since Kincaid is 66 to 56 mya, and ptychodus supposedly went extinct 85 mya in the Western Interior Sea, I didn't expect to see any today. But this one was in the same matrix the other teeth came from. It appears I found a tooth from one of the last of the Mohicans. Does anyone here have experience hunting Kincaid? If I thought last week's teeth were small, then these teeth are REALLY small. But I had a blast finding them. And I have lots more matrix to go through. I'll check back after I've been through it. Thankfully, it's nowhere near as hard as most matrix I seem to bring home.
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I made a trip to a new creek in Hill County last Thursday. This is another Eagle Ford creek, though it is very close to Austin Chalk coverage. It was another creek that's tough to hike in places. Even with my new, first time ever, prescription glasses on, I didn't find a whole lot, but I did bring home a few interesting pieces. Here are opposite direction views of the same outcrop in the creek. It has the blue gray clay you find so often in Eagle Ford outcrops. There were lots and lots of small ammonite imprints in rocks, like the one in the upper left part of this rock, but no surviving ammonite fossils that I found. And there were lots and lots of shell fragments in rocks. These were bigger than most. This rock looks like just another of those with lots of shell fragments. But this side view of the same rock shows a hidden jewel I almost missed. That's a ptychodus tooth. Shark teeth were few and far between in the creek, but here are a couple of pretty ones, though small, still in the matrix. As I get more experience, I've gotten better about not just picking up everything neat looking that I find. But I couldn't resist this, one of the larger bison teeth I've run across. There were lots of hard to identify fossils in the rocks. That looks like some kind of tooth on the left, but I have no idea what the others are. They all look too delicate to remove from the matrix, but I may do a bit of pick work to try and tell better what they are. And finally, this bone. The first photo shows a view of each side of it. There is still a bit of rock attached. I didn't remove any matrix from it; this is just the way I found it. The last photo shows a side view. Does anyone have a clue what this is?
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I want to visit edisto river to find some nice shark teeth but I don't know when I should go?
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Hello everyone, First time posting here so sorry if I mess this up or offend anyone for a newbie asking for some ID help. On a recent trip to some of our Northern New Jersey spots, I’ve come across two things I have never found before and one vertebrae that I was hoping someone could maybe point me in a direction towards. All from Holmdel area. Images 1 and 2 is possibly coprolite? Has small “shell like” crust to it in some spots. 3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9 is a small tooth in a piece of jaw bone or a claw piece possibly? Last four is the vert found. Roughly the size of a quarter. Never have found one this size. Not complete but any ideas? Thanks so much in advance! Jeff Kiger
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I found these teeth a little north of north Myrtle and need help figuring out what they are
tinkerdragon123 posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found almost 75 teeth at Holden beach, just north of north Myrtle, but there are a few I can't identify. By the way the teeth are a little larger than they look in the picture. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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Found these on a beach. Fascinated but clueless (well I know some are shark teeth but not what kind)
LokisPetDinosaur posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Hey. So I found this whilst digging in my Garden, Lockington, East Yorkshire, England. Any one able to identify what this may be...if anything?
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Hi everyone, looking for some ID help on these mammal teeth. The first tooth on left was found in NC. The 2 teeth on the right were found in NJ. The middle tooth I think is a modern deer, the other 2 appear to be a lot older.
