New Members kl2243 Posted May 9, 2014 New Members Posted May 9, 2014 I live in Woodway right outside of the city limits of Waco. We have tons of fossils in this area, it seems. There is a wooded ravine that includes a limestone creek bed behind our house. I *think* this is where my daughter picked up the fossil whose pic I am attaching. We recently found this in her room! Any idea what it might be? Some of the pics have a penny in them for scale. Thanks for your help. KL
Auspex Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 It might be the internal mold of odd reef-building 'clam' called a rudist. In any case, it is definitely not a claw (despite it's suggestive shape). 1 "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!
Xiphactinus Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 This doesn't have the characteristics of a claw. What I think you have is the internal mold of either a snail or mollusk of some kind. Imagine the shell filled with mud, which turns to stone, and then the shell dissolves away leaving the stone from the inside. 1
New Members kl2243 Posted May 9, 2014 Author New Members Posted May 9, 2014 Thank you both for the replies. This little conversation marks my official interest in local paleontology! :-)
Herb Posted May 10, 2014 Posted May 10, 2014 (edited) worn internal cast of a "Texigryphia" ? welcome to the club! Edited May 10, 2014 by Herb "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks
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