North Sulphur River - 9-27-15 - Cephalopod Central!

[DinoMike]

Nice report, and neat finds!

Thanks for posting your trip.

Regards,

You're welcome! I was so amazed by the outcome of this trip! At first I wasn't finding anything, and thought my tip had been WAY out of date & the area was picked clean of cephalopods... then I changed my search strategy & they started popping up everywhere!

[Fossildude19]

Good for you, Mike!

It's amazing how a slight change to your methods can open up the path to finding great things.

Always worth it, in my opinion, to change things up now and then.

Regards,

[JohnJ]

Nice report and finds, Mike. Sounds like it was a good learning experience, too, and those sometimes make the best trips.

I'm pretty sure your "mystery" item is just a piece of calcite and matrix. You can find examples like that along small faults in the formation. They can often form that 'ribbed' characteristic with entrained clay and shale.

[Auspex]

You sure got into the red-beds!

I must be hungry, 'cause this looks like a little lamb chop

[DinoMike]

You sure got into the red-beds!

I must be hungry, 'cause this looks like a little lamb chop

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Extra-crunchy!

[PaleoWilliam]

Nice finds!

[Foshunter]

Nice finds, the Red Beds always seem to produce. Does anyone know what caused the mass die off that occured in the Red Beds and what the source of the red materal is???

Tom

[Auspex]

Usually, the red color is from ferric oxides. The strongest currently accepted theories on isolated red beds are that it is a post-depositional diagenetic phenonmion, and probably does not record anything about the environmnet when the sediment was actually laid down.

I used to wonder whether there was a relationship between red beds and die offs, but it appears there is no connection.