jspencer
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Post by jspencer on Jul 25, 2011 21:17:55 GMT -5
This was found this weekend while hunting with Darstcreek. Attachments:
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Post by jspencer on Jul 25, 2011 21:25:16 GMT -5
Forgot to add this one. Half of bi-valve shell on left is still contained in the rock. Attachments:
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 26, 2011 10:32:43 GMT -5
Nice fossils,are they in a limestone host rock???
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Post by paulshiroma on Jul 27, 2011 8:45:45 GMT -5
Right on ... those are nice finds. Paul
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Post by jspencer on Jul 27, 2011 23:30:41 GMT -5
Bi-valves are in flint and the spiral shells are in what looks to be a siltstone or mudstone. I have 3 more pieces of the same rock which I will probably peck at to see what else is within. Trace fossils are evident on the breakage lines. I`ll take more pics and post them. We found 2 other trace fossils of the bi-valve in flint. No original shell left or was deeply imbedded within.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 8, 2011 15:31:31 GMT -5
Very cool! That first one looks like the Devil's Toenails I find, in the raw, before it's be river tumbled. In the Eagle Pass, TX gravel, I seem to find quite a lot of flint and limestone with the Toenails fossils in them and the occasional bivalve or turritella type shell too....Mel
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Post by jspencer on Aug 9, 2011 23:33:36 GMT -5
I have also found a lot of them here in Austin and the smaller exogyras. Biggest toenail I`ve found is probably about a 3 lb`er.
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