Lower Eagle Ford jaw droppers

[Shaun-DFW Fossils]

The last 30 days have been great. Not the largest numbers of fossils, but high quality. I went to a highway median lower Eagle Ford exposure in South Grand Prairie, Texas, and another nearby Tarrant formation exposure on 3 occasions in the last few weeks. I have a lot of firsts from these excursions:

unknown gastropod

absolute unit of an ammonite, a 5.1 pound acanthoceras amphibolum with huge spikes

concretion with conlinoceras tarrantense with original shell and septarian veins

mosasaur vertebra

partial (?) lobster in a pre-broken concretion

metiococeras ammonite (rough one but my first)

numerous conlinoceras tarrantense ammonites 2-4 inches diameter 

 

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 02:30 AM by Shaun-DFW Fossils
Duplicated photos

[Jaybot]

Wow!  Nice to see that your finding great stuff.  That partial lobster/crustacean looks interesting; might be worth prepping out?

[Shaun-DFW Fossils]

28 minutes ago, Jaybot said:

Wow!  Nice to see that your finding great stuff.  That partial lobster/crustacean looks interesting; might be worth prepping out?

Thanks Jaybot! I hope you’ve been doing well! I’m definitely going to try and prep the crustacean. I bought a $14 dremel 290 and I’ve gotten pretty good about doing what I can with that noisy sucker, but I’m at the point where I need air abrasive to finish it out. I plan to get my own system soon, so in the meantime, I’ll have to wait until I either get that or I can use my friends abrasive tool. I’ll post updates in fossil prep when done!

[Ludwigia]

Great finds! I'm already looking forward to seeing the prepped out crustacean.

[Jaybot]

12 hours ago, Shaun-DFW Fossils said:

Thanks Jaybot! I hope you’ve been doing well! I’m definitely going to try and prep the crustacean. I bought a $14 dremel 290 and I’ve gotten pretty good about doing what I can with that noisy sucker, but I’m at the point where I need air abrasive to finish it out. I plan to get my own system soon, so in the meantime, I’ll have to wait until I either get that or I can use my friends abrasive tool. I’ll post updates in fossil prep when done!

Thank you, I have been doing pretty well.  Looks like both of us have had some good finds lately.  Looking forward to the prep updates!

Have a great day