joecooper84 Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 (edited) Hey guys. Haven't posted in a while. 15 month old will keep ya busy My Grandmother works for a geneaological society. An older man in the area passed away and his family members gave her group his fossils. They were going to throw them away until my G-ma offered to give them to me. Here are a few. The others not pictured are mostly Native artifcats like shards of pottery and arrowheads. There were a few bones that looked pretty recent too. Most of these I have no idea what they are or where they came from. Feel free to enlighten me! 1. Some awesome tooth. Pretty big! -Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1014.JPG -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1015.JPG -Bottom View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1017.JPG 2. Another tooth -Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1019.JPG -Angled Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1020.JPG 3. Some big plate - this thing feels like iron! At first I thought this was a deer hoof print until I got it in front of me. -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1021.JPG -Closer View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1022.JPG 4. Some more bivalves in the same type of matrix -Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1023.JPG - Another Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1024.JPG 5. Big bivalve -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1025.JPG -Same type of bivalve - but still has color https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1027.JPG I've got some more I'll post later. Wife says she helps me clean the garage NOW or she won't help at all. Priorities, priorities. --Allright! Got rained out, so here goes more pics. 6. Seems like a cactus arm to me... -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1029.JPG -Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1030.JPG -Bottom View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1031.JPG 7. Hash plate https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1032.JPG 8. Leaf wrapped around a rock -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1033.JPG -Bottom View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1034.JPG 9. Another of what looks to be the same type of leaf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1035.JPG 10. I have NO IDEA what these things are -Top Angled View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1036.JPG -Top Angled View 2 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1039.JPG -Side View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1037.JPG -Side View 2 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1038.JPG -Larger One, Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1041.JPG -Larger One, Bottom View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1042.JPG 11. Concretion? -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1026.JPG 12. Tube or Tunnel? -Top View https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30529576/Fossils/IMG_1028.JPG Edited June 11, 2013 by joecooper84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Cant help much beyond what you already know.. Too bad you don't have the locations. I have ended up with a number of fossils sans info that way too... That last item is a puzzler to me, I'll be watching to see what others say. I like that hash plate with the long snails! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Sorry, but I think the first 2 are bones, not teeth. Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 I agree with steelhead9 on the first two being bone. Some of the other stuff is interesting too. I was told once that the wiggly cone shaped structures shown in item #10 were "cone in cone" structures. To me they look more organic and maybe are whats left from a Rudist. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrocodileJen Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 (edited) Very cool! The last one is probably a trace fossil... tunnel/tube like you said, left behind by some burrowing worm/worm-like creature. I have a small piece of tube that broke free from the matrix and I can see through it, a palentologist told me what it was and it looks a lot like yours. Sorry so vague. BTW I would love to see the pieces of Native American artifacts! Edited June 11, 2013 by CrocodileJen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrocodileJen Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Oh and I LOVE #10! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 (edited) Dropbox is a poor way to attach pictures - each one was taking 3-4 minutes to download. I don't have the patience to look at them. Edited June 11, 2013 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toren Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) umm not sure but 3 looks like a cretaceous cucullaea sp. i think #4 is the same and 5 looks to be an oyster....mybe some other pic's of 5 may help...GL PS i had no problem downloading pics Edited June 12, 2013 by toren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toren Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) I think #2 is a rostral of a sawfish ....yeah dan may be on to something there..now that i looked at it again..and enlarged it i see its bone look to it ..my bad Edited June 12, 2013 by toren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 i think 2 is a mammalian proximal metapodial Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) Cool! Number 10 is puzzling maybe a pseudofossil? Some sort of geological formation? Looked kinda like external molds of trilobites to me at first glance. But I don't think so now I've looked at all of them. Some of the rock almost has a look about it of some sort of cave deposit especially image 1037. But I'm not sure how you would form these shapes in a cave - except depositing and eroding via droplets. Look forward to seeing what others have to say. Edited June 13, 2013 by Doctor Mud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joecooper84 Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Taking a shot in the dark here on number 10. Could it be some sort of nest? Like a termite nest (I'd mention ant too but it doesn't look like any ant mound I've ever seen). Maybe some sort of beetle / insects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 hey joe did you ever beat that big nautloid i showed you out of the creek? Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Taking a shot in the dark here on number 10. Could it be some sort of nest? Like a termite nest (I'd mention ant too but it doesn't look like any ant mound I've ever seen). Maybe some sort of beetle / insects? I think it is more apt to be something akin to a stromatolite (layered algae or similar biofilm). "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...
silverphoenix Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 10 does look like a stromatolite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Some very nice specimens in that lot; thanks for posting. Regards, Dropbox is a poor way to attach pictures - each one was taking 3-4 minutes to download. I don't have the patience to look at them. Comes up fine on my PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfrr Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Nice haul ..good job for g-ma to salvage those. Can't help you much on the ID. I think something rather important was said way back at the first of the post, " An older man in the area passed away and his family members gave her group his fossils. They were going to throw them away until my G-ma offered to give them to me." When we go will we simply leave boxes of rocks for someone to deal with or will we leave valued treasures, fossils and artifacts? I think much of that depends on providing at a minimum the collection local and group for each. We should provide an identification if possible. Without that they kind of do become just an interesting box of rocks. The fact that many of us can sit and tell the story associated with almost any of our fossil finds means very little when we are gone. I'd hate to think these particular finds might have been dumped in the trash and I certainly hope that it never happens to yours or mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Nice haul ..good job for g-ma to salvage those. Can't help you much on the ID. I think something rather important was said way back at the first of the post, " An older man in the area passed away and his family members gave her group his fossils. They were going to throw them away until my G-ma offered to give them to me." When we go will we simply leave boxes of rocks for someone to deal with or will we leave valued treasures, fossils and artifacts? I think much of that depends on providing at a minimum the collection local and group for each. We should provide an identification if possible. Without that they kind of do become just an interesting box of rocks. The fact that many of us can sit and tell the story associated with almost any of our fossil finds means very little when we are gone. I'd hate to think these particular finds might have been dumped in the trash and I certainly hope that it never happens to yours or mine. Well said...with out going down to much of a morbid path , ive written my collection into my Will ! Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Food for thought.... Having no will yet I can only hope that my family will figure out that I have labels and numbers on my fossils with the corresponding data in a notebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joecooper84 Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) I think you guys are right about #10 being a stromatolite. hey joe did you ever beat that big nautloid i showed you out of the creek? I tried Dan, but couldn't find it again. I did however find one on my own which made me very proud and hopeful However, my dinkly little 2 pound sledge hammer did so little I gave up. I did get one small piece of it though, the very outer end of the swirl before it stops. Not much, but I'm glad I was able to do it! Edited June 17, 2013 by joecooper84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 Some horizons in the Austin Chalk require a jack hammer. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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