JamieLynn Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I really thought I had done a post on my latest finds - but apparently I have not! So here are my "new" additions to the All the Echies of Texas collection! Happily, one is a bucket list find - a Lower Cretaceous Glen Rose formation Tetragramma tenerum. I had two Tetragrammas on my echinoid bucket list and this one is now in my collection! Still looking for that T. taffi..... EDIT: See below because I think I just realized I DID find my T. taffi!!!!!! Tetragramma tenerum Comal County A find from up North Texas, in Fort Worth, was this one which I had THOUGHT was a Tetragramma streeruwitzi because I THOUGHT the formation I found it in was Duck Creek from the Washita formation and now, just now, going back to check the map and location, I realized I was in the Goodland Formation which is Frederickburg and NOT Washita, so what I had thought was a T. streeruwitzi....is most likely actually a Tetragramma taffi!!!! MY OTHER BUCKET LIST TETRA!! Now I am for sure going to get it cleaned up! I was planning on it, but just hadn't gotten around to it...so to the prepper you will go my little friend! And back in Central Texas, in the Comanche Peak formation - a little bit busted up Globator parryi, but you can at least see the "cheerio" rings on the test And while not a new one to my collection, at least a little bit better one than my first - a Goniopygus whitneyi from the Upper Glen Rose formation So the total list is: Macraster - texanus, elegens and washitaensis Heteraster - mexicanus, obliquetus and texanus Phymosoma texanum Goniopygus - zitelli, whitneyi and sp. Leptosalenia - mexicana, volana and texana and possible sp. Pliotoxaster - whitei and comanchei Hyposalenia phillipsae Pygopyrina hancockensis Holaster simplex Tetragramma texanum, tenerum and taffi!! Loriolia - rosana and possibly whitei (if that is considered a viable species) Polydiadema travisensis Anorthopygus texanus Heterosalenia sp. Paraorthopsis comalensis Coenholectypus - planatus and ovatus Pseudodiadema aguilera Plagiochasma texanum Goniophorus scotti Hemiaster - calvini and bexari Washitaster sp. Diplodetus americanus Echinothurid sp. plates Balanocidarid spines Globator whitneyi and parryi Pedinopsis engerrandi Not Cretaceous Eocene Protoscutella mississippiensis Pennsylvanian Archeocidaris plates and spines Pronechinus plates and spines 4 15 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Some beautiful echinoids @JamieLynn. Seems that you have quite the collection. 1 3 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 You know I always enjoy seeing Texas Echies! Congrats on the bucket list finds and thanks for sharing! 1 The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Wonderful additions, Jamie! Can't wait until you get the Tetragramma cleaned up. I have not heard of Globator parryi coming from anywhere below the Georgetown Formation equivalent strata. That one might need a review of all data.... 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 @JohnJ I was surprised too, but I was specifically looking in Com Peak places for that T. taffi! hahahha!! I found online from Geological Enterprises on online auction site. a G. parryi posted as found in Comanche Peak, so figured I wasn't the only one..... 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 I would review other candidates closely before following a single reference that is so far out of sync geologically. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 @JohnJ In the HGMS book, G. parryi is listed as being found in the Fredericksburg, so that is why I ID'd as such, in addition to the online source. 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andúril Flame of the West Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Neat little echinoids and quite a nice list of genera you've accumulated. BTW I thoroughly enjoyed taking a look at your website. The hard work you put into it shows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 12 hours ago, JamieLynn said: @JohnJ In the HGMS book, G. parryi is listed as being found in the Fredericksburg, so that is why I ID'd as such, in addition to the online source. I noticed that after my previous comment. It would be interesting to see diagnostic specimens from below the Washita Group. Regardless of species, congratulations on a very rare find for the Comanche Peak formation! Be sure to update us on the Tetragramma, too. 2 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Wow, this is like Super Th'urchin Thursday. A big congrats on your Tetra finds! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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