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We had a cold snap here in Central Texas today. Temperature only made it up to about 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Took advantage and hit a local Walnut Formation (Lower Cretaceous) site. This spot exposes the Bee Cave Member and is always good for something good, either new, rare or just a good quality specimen of the common stuff. I went mid day so I wouldn't need a coat and spent about 2-1/2 hours crawling around with the visors on. Proved to be a good day. Started with some nice little crustacean pincers and a leg segment (not rare, but not common either), then a fish tooth (not common here at all), one large Coenholectypus planatus (common) and then when I was down to the last minute before saying I would head home, Bingo! I have been looking for this puppy for a few years now having found one rather scrappy specimen and having seen another one or two larger and excellent specimens in friend's collections. This one is tiny, but just about perfect: Pedinopsis yarboroughi Ikins.

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excellent! i've been hoping for one of them myself for a while. but not today. i was too comfy under my pile of blankets!!

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Nice. I always like the little urchins.

I'm also liking the cut-off low near the Great Lakes that is keeping things 'cold' for us. :)

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What a great little echie! Hope you didn't get any icicles hanging from your nose.

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there's that cool ornate gastropod again, top left

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Great find. Dress in layers and stay warm out there.

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there's that cool ornate gastropod again, top left

Yes. I find them in this part of the Walnut and something similar (same?) in the top of the Glen Rose.

Great find. Dress in layers and stay warm out there.

It is such a relief to have the temps back to a more normal mid to high 90's and cool at night. We expect weeks of 100's in July and August not June.

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It is such a relief to have the temps back to a more normal mid to high 90's and cool at night. We expect weeks of 100's in July and August not June.

I hear that!!! It looks like we will be cooler here as well, with some possible rain (Yaay!) I need some thunder showers to wash out some new fossils :) .

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A very rare and excellent specimen, Erich! Congratulations. Your other nice finds are relegated to the surrounding 'glow' of the Pendinopsis. I wonder if there is a pdf of Ikins 1940 description?

(...do you ever feel like 'Scrat' and his acorn when it comes to echinoids? :unsure: )

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(...do you ever feel like 'Scrat' and his acorn when it comes to echinoids? :unsure: )

Ever since YOU found that ONE, yes.

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Ever since YOU found that ONE, yes.

:P

Most of us get lucky every now and then. You go a long way in creating your own. ;)

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Nice!

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Awesome little echinoid, very nice find----Tom

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