CreekCrawler Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Hello all, I made a quick trip up to the well known creek in Sherman Tx. I came home with a few teeth and enjoyed playing with a common snapper for a while.I also had the pleasure of staring at the watersnake who promptly flattened itself to the ground to look more intimidating.I have a question about the square piece in the middle of the shark teeth.It's not metal and I think I've see something like it on this forum. The rolled looking edge leads me to believe that it is man made though!Any ideas? thanks Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Nicholas Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Interesting stuff, it could be a scute or maybe a pottery fragment.. I've never seen anything quite like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site...dillo_shell.jpg I found this... it may be a help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 i have seen it before isnt it skin or something, i forgot but it is something, nice stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megaselachus13 Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 The turtle appears with few friends face, however it seems a lovely pet. How big reach?. By the way, the site is Cenomanian or Turonian?. Greetings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jax Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Nice finds. I have been to that creek one time. There are some pretty good things in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 The turtle appears with few friends face, however it seems a lovely pet. How big reach?. By the way, the site is Cenomanian or Turonian?. Greetings. The Ptychodos Whipplei in Texas range between Turonian-Coniacian upper Cretaceous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Barry, Could you take a few more photos? One macro of the isolated piece and another of the edge...maybe one of the other side. Nice teeth. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 This is the best that I can do John! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Barry, I'd guess you have a fragment of some decorative metal cup, pot, or bowl. The purplish pink and green oxides (copper?) on the back indicate a metal. Best I can do. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 That last thing looks like an old piece of a file. ... that turtle looks #####! ... oh, and watch out for falling buses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 The pattern on the whatzit looks a bit like leaf scars... "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 The pattern on the whatzit looks a bit like leaf scars... well jax you have been there before, have you ever found anything like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted September 28, 2008 Author Share Posted September 28, 2008 ... oh, and watch out for falling buses! Yes, the falling busses have been there as indicated by the flower arrangements lining the north side of the bridge at Center Street! Otherwise it's fossil collecting as usual! I actually decided that it was not a good collecting day as I passed over POC! I looked out at the creek as I passed by and all I saw was water"no gravel bars".I started to head home thinking "how could this creek be flooded". Then I thought "we haven't had rain for at least a week",so I parked and walked down...........and to my amazement and relief I realized that the "gravel bars" were covered with green weeds and grasses! I really didn't do as well as I had in the summer months, but it was fun "none the less"Just sitting there on a log overlooking the meandering creek eating lunch was enough for me!!!! take care Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted September 28, 2008 Author Share Posted September 28, 2008 Barry,I'd guess you have a fragment of some decorative metal cup, pot, or bowl. The purplish pink and green oxides (copper?) on the back indicate a metal. Best I can do. Yes, what is strange is that it does not register on my "high dollar' metal detector! Not so much as a chirp from my Fisher MD and my Automax precision pinpointer. Copper would ring big time on my equiptment as well as any other piece of metal. This piece doesn't even warrant a tone at all! Strange huh? Oh well, just chalk it up to an unidentified piece of trash that was thrown out long ago! Belonging to what "who knows"..... thanks Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Yes, what is strange is that it does not register on my "high dollar' metal detector! Not so much as a chirp from my Fisher MD and my Automax precision pinpointer. Copper would ring big time on my equiptment as well as any other piece of metal. This piece doesn't even warrant a tone at all! Strange huh? Oh well, just chalk it up to an unidentified piece of trash that was thrown out long ago! Belonging to what "who knows".....thanks Barry guess you found yourself a piece of a ufo lol, no im sure i have seen this before, its from a fish i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Auspex Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 ...the other kid had found a baby ...common snapper... By any chance, was this kid missing any front teeth? "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest solius symbiosus Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 That last thing looks like an old piece of a file. I was thinking that I had seen that before; your description "jogged" me memory. It looks like an old piece of a rasp that a farrier uses when shoeing a horse, but IDK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 How 'bout a cast of an impression of fish scales? "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Barry, For the heck of it, could you get a pic of the right edge (relative to the photo of the "back"). The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 Barry,For the heck of it, could you get a pic of the right edge (relative to the photo of the "back"). Here ya go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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