Texas Maastrichtian Kemp Clay

[Tony Eaton]

I was a bit disappointed on a hunt a month ago out in East Texas. No big crock teeth or perfect larger shark teeth as I might have hoped. However, in the end after sorting through the smaller gravel I brought back home I am pretty happy afterall.

I'll start with the really small stuff, a small oral tooth from a sawfish and a nice foraminifera.

Here are a bit bigger teeth. I.E., Sclerorhynchus, Serratolamna serrata , Archaeolamna kopingensis, Carcharias sp.,

Some more smaller teeth, Squantina sp., Enchodus, Archeolamna, Rhinobatos sp., younger mammal teeth, etc.

Some bigger teeth, Carcharias sp., Squalicorax pristodontus, Enchodus, some grastopod internal molds, some tubular fossils whose name escapes me.

Here is some big stuff, palm wood I believe and some baculites chunks with cool suture patterns.

I also found what is possibly a lissodus tooth? If so, pretty cool to find a hybodont tooth in the Maastrichtian.

Edited April 22, 2010 by Tony Eaton

[glacialerratic]

That's some pretty cool finds!

Did you use a scope to find those little beauties?

Thanks for sharing,

Tim

[Fossildude19]

Definitely, a nice haul!

Nice pictures of some very small stuff!

Thanks for sharing with us.

[Tony Eaton]

Thanks for taking a look. Regarding using a scope, only for the smallest sub 2mm stuff. Even then just a magnifying glass worked well. This material was easy to sort through because most everything not good are dull colored chunks of clay. This is good because there were not that many teeth, the above represents about 3 gallons total and that is after the original material was reduced chemically. The exception are the foraminifera, which are very common.