JamieLynn Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Howdy All! More Post Oak Creek little fossils that I could use some help with ID please! Thanks! 1. First is this little tooth: 1/4 inch Front Back from the top 2. Another tooth or is it a denticle? - 1/8 inch 3. Is this coprolite or a worn gatropod? 4, something "fishy"? 1/8 inch 5. No idea what this is! Size 1/8 inch 6.And last one. Another fishy bit? 1/16 inch Thanks!! 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thecosmilia Trichitoma Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I don’t know much about the formation you’re hunting, but 4 could be the top of a worn echinoid spine. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 1. Sweet tooth, think it's posterior Cretodus sp. based on the striations and no nutrient groove. From the "front view" does the middle of the root stick out in the direction of the screen a little? 2. Looks to me like a cusplet. 3. I vote gastropod. 4. Bone? I can't go any further. 5. hm. It certainly looks like something, but I don't know. 6. looks like the side of a fish vert maybe, or just bone. 1 “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” - A. Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 @ThePhysicist Yes it does stick out convex. 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 30 minutes ago, JamieLynn said: Yes it does stick out convex. Ok definitely Cretodus sp. They have a lingual root protuberance. Very cool tooth, love the position and genus. 1 “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” - A. Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Hi JL, Great finds as usual. I just have to add a brief aside: A few days ago Jamie opined that it never snows in Central Texas and that in all of her years here she'd only seen snow a couple of times. Well that moved the heavens and today we got over an inch of snow here in Austin, beautiful big flakes that stuck to the ground and are still hanging around covering everything. No school tomorrow, city wide. Thanks JL for the beautiful Sunday snow. I give you full credit for this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 9 hours ago, grandpa said: Hi JL, Great finds as usual. I just have to add a brief aside: A few days ago Jamie opined that it never snows in Central Texas and that in all of her years here she'd only seen snow a couple of times. Well that moved the heavens and today we got over an inch of snow here in Austin, beautiful big flakes that stuck to the ground and are still hanging around covering everything. No school tomorrow, city wide. Thanks JL for the beautiful Sunday snow. I give you full credit for this. hahhahahh!!! TRUE!! As I was watching those big fat flakes fall I thought....well.....be careful what you send out into the Universe! My sister got 3 inches in South Austin, we got almost an inch here in San Marcos. it was beautiful. The cat hated it. 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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