Ramo Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 (edited) I'll try to post updates each evening if I can about our 1-6 day hunt. With the tornado outbreak, I may have to cut my trip short. This morning my wife and I are headed to White Mound in Okalhoma, and then this afternoon we are heading over to Black Cat Mountain. We're hoping to possibly hook up with Oh-man for some rock breaking there. I'll include lots of photos, and hopefully lots of fossils in the reports. Wish us luck! Ramo Edited March 8, 2012 by bowkill For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sward Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Ramo, Good luck on your trip. I'll be keeping an eye for your reports. I was hoping I could meet up with you while you're in TX, but it looks like my work sked is going to keep me too busy for a while. SWardSoutheast Missouri (formerly Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX) USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Whip 'em dude.....I stayed home last weekend for the express purpose of affording you more fossils! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Best of luck Ramo! Looking forward to your reports. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Have a great trip, and find some cool stuff.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ramo Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Well so far, so good. Today the weather was just about perfect. We started off crawling around White mound for a while, and came out of there with I think 4 or 5 complete enrolled trilobites, a few pieces, and a bunch of brachs. It was a very cool place, and I'd recommend it to anyone in the area. Kind of hard to find, but well worth the effort. Pat, the owner stopped by and told stories about a professor from OU or OSU who used to bring a train within 5 miles of the mound, and then hired people to bring them in for a week long stay back in the early 1900's. Here are a few pictures from the mound. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Here are a couple pictures from the Arbuckle Mountains. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 The next stop was Black Cat Mountain. Special thanks to Oh-man for getting us into there, and Creek Crawler went as well. We met at Bob's shop, and he took us up to the gate. We found lots of parts and pieces of trilobites, and a few that are probably complete. There were lots of pieces, and lots of hard rock to break. The most amazing thing I saw were these piles of rock reduced to fist sized. There were literally tons of these piles. You could have filled up numerous dump trucks with them. The amazing thing is all these were all broken by Bob. It was kind of like looking at the pyramids, and not being able to comprehend how someone was able to do that. It just blew me away how many rocks that one man has reduced to fist sized pieces. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) Here are some more from Black Cat Mountain, Plus some weird tree growing from the rubble. (too tired to write more. Going to sleep. Texhoma planned for tomorrow) Edited March 6, 2012 by bowkill For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grokfish Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Awesome report! Can't wait to see more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 glad to see your doing well on your journey. Rain is coming in on Thur and might stay till Sat. Next week is going to be a good one on the sulphur. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordpiney Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Awesome finds Ramo...that weird tree is a Euonymus alatus aka..burning bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 good times! i love the black cat quarry. i've only been there once in apr 2009, and it was with the dps, but i lucked into 50 trilobites that day, mostly enrolled paciphacops, and about half were hands down killer specimens. i got a couple decent ketternapsis as well... maybe a reedops or two. interesting how comparatively scarce were the orthocone cephalopods, bivalves and gastropods, but i bumped into a few of them as well. now come on down to texas and break your leaf springs! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Dan, the leaf springs on the old Buick are straining a little today. That is a low riding car, and it's a little lower today. This morning we went to "an undisclosed location" and found some nice ammonites. Those things are heavy!!! Here are a few in situ pictures, scenery pictures, and a group shot of most that we carried out. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Here are a few more ammonite pictures, One is broken, and full of crystals. One crystal looks just like a piece of glass. Don't know if you can see it in the photo. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Next we drove to Texoma. Barry told us where we could find urchins, and we were dreading the mile walk. Actually the walk was nice. Ths spillway flowers were in full bloom, and the walking was easy compared to the last place we had been. After looking at a ton of big ammonite pieces, we were about to give up on the urchins, and Pam finally spotted one. After we figured out what layer they were coming out of, we started popping them out left and right. We also ended up taking a few ammonite parts, and a slab with a bunch of small urchins in it. I also found a shark tooth in matrix along the shore on the walk back. We also found a scorpion under a rock next to the old boat ramp. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 (edited) We drove down to Sherman, and had enough time to try a little hunting at POC. We ended up crawling on our bellies for about an hour for a meager little pile of broken shark teeth and what looks like a deer tooth. Those of you that have big collections of cool stuff from there have sure earned them! Now I see why everyone said wait until after a good rain. I think We will try POC a little more in the am, and then head over to the Jacksboro area for the PM hunt, if the weather stays perfect like it has so far. Ramo Thanks again to everyone who helped us out with this trip. Edited March 7, 2012 by bowkill For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 NIce stuff! Echinoids are excellent. Looks like dan hooked it up. My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 glad yall are hitting paydirt. if it rains i'd floor it even faster to jax as the place is even more productive freshly washed, not just cuzza newly exposed finds, but the increased contrast makes things hard to miss. give jax as many hours as u can spare. best results come with a slow, systematic crawl on gloves and kneepads Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boneman007 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 glad yall are hitting paydirt. if it rains i'd floor it even faster to jax as the place is even more productive freshly washed, not just cuzza newly exposed finds, but the increased contrast makes things hard to miss. give jax as many hours as u can spare. best results come with a slow, systematic crawl on gloves and kneepads No, no! It's going to be too muddy, yeah, that's it... No, wait, I'll be too hot... or cold whatever you don't like... Yeah, that's it... Okay, seriously, Hit Jacksboro while finding good fossils there isn't something we old time Dallas hunters just talk about...(Read: Mineral Wells, North Sulphur River, POC...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 (edited) Just a heads up. The Paleo Society of Austin hit Jacksboro on the 25th. We (most of us die hards) were there ALLLL day. It's a big place but there were at least a dozen and a half folks crawling over the whole thing. But all it takes is a few good rains and it's ready to go again. I haven't been following the weather so not sure... Edited March 7, 2012 by erose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boneman007 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Just a heads up. The Paleo Society of Austin hit Jacksboro on the 25th. We (most of us die hards) were there ALLLL day. It's a big place but there were at least a dozen and a half folks crawling over the whole thing. But all it takes is a few good rains and it's ready to go again. I haven't been following the weather so not sure... Howdja do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yesterday we crawled a few grvel beds at the Travis street bridge, and found a few shark teeth. One nice big ptychodus. Thanks to Fossil Addict for giving us sme good pointers on POC. We then drove down to the Dallas area and visited with Creek Crawler and got to look at his collection. He has some unbelievable stuff, that mosasaur tooth in person looks bigger than in his avatar. The "Iron fish" he has is like nothing I've ever seen anywhere. I still can't get over that one. We then headed over towards Jacksboro. We stopped at a gas station/McDonalds just outside of Rhome, and lucked into the motherload of heart urchins. I know most of the Texas people don't get too excited about those, but we think they are awesome! We then dove onover to Jacksboro, and erose is correct. There were more human tracks than we could believe. Looks like it was muddy when those guys were there. We still found plenty of cool stuff, and we also tried another spot on the way over there that added to our haul. Looks like we are going to have to head back home. Thanks again to all who helped us out along the way. Ramo For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 When in Rhome. (and Jacksboro) For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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