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Am I crazy, or is there something there?


Jennifer A

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There is a rather large, and lonely, rock at a park near our house. This is one of my sons standing on itpost-21740-0-85761500-1466178684_thumb.jpg

Now, like I said in my hello post, it's been a long while since I've been hunting so...

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Are those a bone and tooth or have I lost what's left of my mind?

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Lots of shells in cross section, some shell imprints, and crinoid stem in the last picture.

Fossils, but sea floor, not bones. ;)

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Thanks! It's nice to know that even if I was wrong about what it was that there's still something there. Wish I knew where it came from, I'd love to look at the area.

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Lots of fossils but this doesn't rule out insanity! :P

Yeah. I thought it might be a trick question. :-P

Do you want to clean the gutters or have some apple pie first?

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Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer

Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year

Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert

Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous

Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk

Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus

Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html

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Hehe, I suppose it is a bit of a trick question. With four kids between the ages of 5 and 12 I question my sanity on an hourly basis.

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