Texas Sulphur River Madness!

[JarrodB]

Sorry I have been crazy busy lately and unable to post. Here's a few of Northeast Texas finds my last couple of trips. Pleisosaur partial girdle, silver spoon, artifacts, xiphactinus tooth, mosasaur verts, old door knob, enchodus jaws, old hard hat, old bottles, ammonite, exogyra and my first crocodile scute.

  

  

 

   

 

  

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

 

  

 

                    

  

  

  

[Fossilis Willis]

Nice finds, as usual. Is it hypocritical of me that I despise littering but love finding old junk?

[henpecked]

Thanks for sharing your pictures. Looked like a good day to me.

[LabRatKing]

9 hours ago, JarrodB said:

Sorry I have been crazy busy lately and unable to post. Here's a few of Northeast Texas finds my last couple of trips. Pleisosaur partial girdle, silver spoon, artifacts, xiphactinus tooth, mosasaur verts, old door knob, enchodus jaws, old hard hat, old bottles, ammonite, exogyra and my first crocodile scute.

  

  

 

   

 

  

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

 

  

 

                    

  

 

  

What? No kitchen sink?

 

Nice finds all around!

[DPS Ammonite]

@JarrodB It looks like lots of cool stuff is still left. Have you noticed more people there since the announcement of the new lake that will put much of the collecting area underwater?  
 

There is a lot of irony in the history of the North Sulphur River. Man created the great fossil collecting area and man will take it away. The River was channelized to create farmland from a swamp. The newly straightened River then uncovered many Cretaceous and Pleistocene fossils in the process of eroding farmland. The much larger chasm then will become a convenient place to put a lake thus inhibiting fossil collecting. 
 

I hope that Texas builds the highway bridge north from Ladonia high enough over the lake so it does not flood. Oklahoma built a bridge over fossil rich Lake Texoma that went underwater during high water when five feet of water poured over the spillway. 
 

I see that they plan to create a new Ladonia Fossil Park. It appears that Bug Tussle north of Ladonia will stay above water although it may be torn down to become waterfront park property.

 

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Edited March 15, 2021 by DPS Ammonite

[JarrodB]

Covid has pretty much ruined the public areas. Thankfully I don't hut any of the areas normal people go lol.