trempie4 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Had a chance to be in TX again with a few hours to kill and made my way to the North Sulphur River. I certainly was not the first person there after the rains but I did manage to grab a few crumbs. A special thanks to Dan the man Woehr for hooking me up with a decent spot. Great weather, a bit warm, no mosquitos, only one snake, lots of frogs and a few fossils. Oh yes, something very similiar to quicksand which sucked me in to mid thigh in seconds...... Pics below. Any ID's would be appreciated....... PIC 1 - First find, 5 minutes into a 5 hour trek, Nicest and last whole find of the day. A great motivator for the remaining 4 hrs and 55 minutes. PICS 2 and 3 Partial.......? PIC 4 - Decent piece of petrified wood PICS 5 6 and 7 - Something Vertish? PIC 8 - Partial Ammo PIC 9 - Soft Quickish Sand - Knee deep in 2 seconds, thigh deep in 5, panicked in 6..... A bit of belly crawling and a quick dip in the river had me back on track in no time.....] PICS 10-13 - A semi agitiated viper - Cottonmouth I assume? PICS 14 - 16 - My final tally of goodies. Edited March 28, 2012 by trempie4 Joe... (evolution ROCKS....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxman56 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 "snakes, Snakes, I hate Snakes" the only time I get to use that quote. Nice finds among the mud rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Nice finds! Been there...done that on the sinking in to the thighs at the Sulphur River. And yes...your agitated viper IS a cottonmouth. Strange...but in all the times I've been up there, I've NEVER enountered one of those beasties. A few water snakes (Nerodia) here and there but I've never seen a cottonmouth there. -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trempie4 Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 Said asp was a pleasure to play with. He's not much on the vertical or elongated lunge so I was able to get about 6 inches from his cottony grin. After a Man vs. Wild marathon this weekend I was about to munch his head off and make a water bag out of his scaley hide but alas, we parted no worse off than when we met..... Joe... (evolution ROCKS....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 your first ammonite looks like pachydiscus paulsoni, partial ammo looks like menabites sp. straight ammonite sections baculites sp. glad it was worth your while... told ya bout those soft spots! hope you didnt leave shoes at the bottom...and düd u got closer to that agkistrodon than i would have! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trempie4 Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Thanks Dan, it was a great time but it really wore me out, rubber boots on a slick river bottom took its toll on me. Somehow I totally forgot about the soft spots, I was shocked at how quickly I became mired in the muck. I'll give you a shout the next time I'm close, maybe we can coordinate and finally meet! I spent a few years in college with a room full of venomous snakes, milking them and selling the venom to a lab down in north carolina. I was really contemplating pinning that guy down and going for the money shot of him in my hands, jaws gaping, but I was miles from the bridge and he was a big one so prudently I didn't get closer than 8 inches from his smiling face.... Edited March 28, 2012 by trempie4 Joe... (evolution ROCKS....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Nice haul! Love those Exogyra ponderosa in the last picture. Some of those get HUGE from the Sulphur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 The rose color of the ammonites is absolutely spectacular. Is it due to iron in the calcite? Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trempie4 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 MO'n, someone more clever than I will have to address the red ammo's, I collect them, they can dissect them! They come from a truly red clay layer, not that faux red down in the southeast..... Joe... (evolution ROCKS....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Classic Ozan red-bed fossils >LINK< to USGS info. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trempie4 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Thx Auspex! Joe... (evolution ROCKS....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Fossil Hound Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 The North Sulphur River has been being a bit selfish recently. I would have thought the big rains would have turned over a rich harvest of fossils - but I was out there in several spots right ofter the riains and - although we found a few nice items - it seems to be a bit sparse out there. hopefully it will turn over again and the available material will pick up the pace again. Jon "Silence is Golden, but duct tape is Silver." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kknight Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I made out like a bandit several weeks ago. Maybe I was lucky. Amateur Nature Photographer / Fossil Hunter www.naturesstage.com Kevin Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 "the money shot" LOL that would have been a great picture. Nice bunch of fossils too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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