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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Various
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods
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North Sulfur River in Texas - An attempt was made
Opabinia Blues posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
This weekend I find myself northeast of Dallas, hoping that I might manage to catch a glimpse of Monday’s solar eclipse. I figured while I was in there area I’d try my hand at fossil hunting the Cretaceous Ozan Formation in the North Sulfur River near Ladonia. It’s a fairly famous fossil hunting site which is open to the public, so I was quite excited to give it a go. When I arrived I noticed that quite a few people were in the same spot, some hunting for fossils and others enjoying the water on a cool day. Someone in the parking lot was showing off a huge Scapanorhynchus tooth they had found, which I was able to identify for them. My hopes were quite high, but pretty quickly I realized that the North Sulfur River wouldn’t quite be the fossil buffet I had imagined. Fossils seemed to be few and far between, so imagining that the area near the park entrance was simply heavily picked over I walked about a mile and a half west to try to get to fresher pastures. Alas, the only fossils I netted myself today were Inoceramid clams, some baculites (the red-zone ones, not the pretty black ones) and two fairly large grypheid oysters. Oh, and some petrified wood too. I found zero vertebrates, save for a bone fragment. I don’t fault myself. Although I was not the first to arrive, I was the last to leave. I combed over just about every gravel bar I came across, remembering @PaleoNoel’s advice: “It pays to be thorough.” At one point I walked back to my car to replace my sopping wet hiking boots for my water shoes, and kept on pushing. But it did not net me much. I have to say I’m slightly disappointed. Maybe I’m just spoiled rotten when it comes to fossils having grown up on the Front Range. But I will say, this is the hardest I’ve ever worked for a few crappy baculites. I talked to some other fossil hunters, and most seemed to be having about the same luck I had. But one person had managed to find about a half dozen shark teeth, a mosasaur tooth, very nice black baculites, and a partial mosasaur vertebra. The proof that there were treasures out there to be found drove my persistence, and ultimately amplified my frustration. Perhaps I went at a bad time - a lot of people are in the area for the eclipse and I was told that it had been a while since there had been good flow. Maybe that’s just the way it goes at this site. Nonetheless, I’m considering trying again within the next year. My sister lives in Waco, and I heard that unfortunately the North Sulfur River won’t be accessible to fossil hunters past 2025 due to the removal of the dam that exposed the rock unit in the first place. Nonetheless, it was a beautiful day and it’s always fun to discover new things! As much complaining as I did in this post it is super awesome to find my own fossils from a new rock unit for the collection! I caught a diving beetle too, which I intend to take home and add to my aquarium (I have an aquarium specifically for diving beetles, but they aren’t out yet in Colorado)! Some pictures for your enjoyment:
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Bivalves- Scallops
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Bivalves- Scallops
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Bivalves- Scallops
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Coral, Forams, Bryozoans and More
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Coral, Forams, Bryozoans and More
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Oysters
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Rudist Caprinuloidea anguis Edwards Formation
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Rudists
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From the album: Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Bivalves - Clams
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From the album: Eagle Ford Group
Ptychodus decurrens, South TX Cenomanian, Cretaceous Apr, 2024 Today I found my first Ptychodus/Eagle Ford site of South TX! The outcrop is pretty tiny, but there were some shark teeth to be had. The fauna included Ptychodus decurrens, Carcharias saskatchewanensis, Squalicorax sp., and Haimirichia amonensis. -
Howdy! My dad got lucky in a road cut that I *think* is Upper Glen Rose near Bandera, TX. Would love help IDing the vertebrae. Found among Porocytis, Heteraster, Hemiaster, DeerHearts, Tylostoma, etc. Thank you in advance!
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So I am 90 percent convinced the site is Austin Chalk Formation. I have found a couple of fossils that lead me to that conclusion, a gastropod and a nautiloid specifically. That being said, I cannot quite figure out what these bacultes are. From the HGMS book the Boehmoceras arculus seems to be the closest but it says it is a curved shaft, which these most certainly are not. But the strong nodes on these are really not falling under any other possibility. Any insights? 3.5 inches 2 inches 1.5 inches this is the only one that you can really see the suture patterns. The nodes don't show up very well but they are there
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Any advice to extract a fossilized vertebra that is under 6mm?
The_Wanderer posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Do y’all have any advice y’all could give me to extract a fossilized vertebrae bone that is under 6mm without damaging? like tools, extraction techniques, preservation of it, and identification of it. context: So, I am new at this and I don’t really know what to get or do to extract it. The fossil is small like very small around as small as fire ants, like maybe on the bigger side of fire ants. I don’t have any close up and clear photos of it right now, but the measurements is accurate, and I will add a quick sketch of what it roughly looks like.
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Hello. New to the forum. Retired geologist (environmental) and ready to get back in to one of my passions, fossil collecting. As a young buck, I did lot of collecting in NE PA around the anthracite open pits. Late 70's went to USU and hiked a lot of locals in Wyoming and Utah. Anyway, just wanted to say hello. Jack....
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Photo request: "A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas", Charles Finsley
Mochaccino posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hello, Could someone who has the book "A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas" by Charles Finsley pm me photos of some figures from it? There are a couple specimens I want to reference. Thank you. -
I only have these 2 photos. A friend has the fossil and doesn’t know where it came from. It measures about 11 inches in length. At this point that’s about all I know. Thank you all so much for your help to identify.
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I found this Saturday here in SE Texas on a river gravel bank... it's a skull piece with an ear bone... an inner ear bone. Periotic... petrosal? Not big enough for the big mammals I think... so horse, bison, cow? Thoughts appreciated.
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I found this vertebra Saturday here in SE Texas on a river gravel bank. I haven't found one like it before. It's 1.75 inches x 2.5 inches tall. 1.5 inches across the face. Vertebrae are the hardest for me to identity... so many possibilities and I have many that haven't been identified yet. Could this be deer or something else?
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From the album: Texas Campanian (Cretaceous)
cf. Prognathodon sp. Campanian (Ozan fm) Texas I'm not the best with tooth ID's, since most of the mosasaur teeth I've seen in person come from basal Plioplatecarpines, whose teeth are mostly indistinguishable. But, realizing this broken apex from a much larger tooth lacked fine striations and had a faint anastomosing texture made me suspect a mosasaurine origin, as opposed to the most common large mosasaur from the Ozan - Tylosaurus proriger. @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon was kind enough to walk me through the ID points and converged on indeterminate Prognathodon sp., and paleontologist Mike Polcyn gave the same opinion. Prognathodon is not described from the Ozan formation, making this an exciting find. There seems to be an elusive giant still lurking Texas's most iconic formation.-
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I found this bone fragment while hunting for shells on San José Island, Texas (near Port Aransas). There is a history of cattle ranching on the island and there was once a herd of wild horses (thus Mustang Island, just south of San José). When I found it, it was wet and a little darker — I expected that when it dried out, it would be a recent bone. After a month, it is still dark and heavy, so I am thinking it might be mineralized/fossilized. I heated a nail to see if it would burn or emits an odor, but it did not. I then used a butane torch and the result was the same. In my mind, it would be really strange to find a bone fossil on a Texas beach. Thus, I am turning to this group to help figure out what this bone is.
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