LanceH Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Saturday Me and Roz headed out to hunt a few pre-planned spots hoping to find vertebrate remains but got sidetracked to hunting for echinoids in the Walnut formation in north Texas. We pulled over at a little roadcut that has some good weathering. The strata as weathered is a crumbly yellow patchy limestone and clay/shale mix. Here the trick was to scour the small broken bits of rock about the same size as the echinoids. In all we found 7 Salenia mexicana echinoids and two small Holectypus echinoids. Here are pictures of my best one, Roz's best one as it was found, and the exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Nice echinoids!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 very, very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpbowden Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 And so many people say you can't find anything in roadcuts, great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Bite-Sized! Go ahead...it would make a good post in the "wierd foods" thread. "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...
LanceH Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 SaleniO's ! They stay crunchy in milk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 SaleniO's ! They stay crunchy in milk! hahaha. nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 So tiny! as the wife would say: "Cute!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screweduptexan Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Nice Lance! That road cut looks rather similar to the ones we were collecting in on the 9th.......Great pictures! I can't come up with anything clever enough for my signature...yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoRon Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Nice echs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Really good photos and nice echies, Lance & Roz. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh-Man Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Cool, but who found more??? You or Roz? And any verts? What is geology? "Rocks for Jocks!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Murphy Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Very nice echinoids. I noticed them on your website as well, Lance. The Salenia echinoids are some of my favorite regular echinoids to collect although my special weaknesses are the various Goniopygus species. There are some decent roadcuts along US Highway 67 west of Glen Rose toward Stephenville that expose the Walnut Formation where Salenia mexicana and the tiny Salenia leanderensis can be found along with Coenholectypus planatus. Have you and Roz made a run out that way yet? Regards, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 Mike, we looked high and low at various roadcuts but didn't find anything. Maybe we should have looked more westernly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Saturday Me and Roz headed out to hunt a few pre-planned spots hoping to find vertebrate remains but got sidetracked to hunting for echinoids in the Walnut formation in north Texas. We pulled over at a little roadcut that has some good weathering. The strata as weathered is a crumbly yellow patchy limestone and clay/shale mix. Here the trick was to scour the small broken bits of rock about the same size as the echinoids. In all we found 7 Salenia mexicana echinoids and two small Holectypus echinoids. Here are pictures of my best one, Roz's best one as it was found, and the exposure. I want one http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSRaddict_1 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Great finds , very nice detail . Hunting fossils is fun , but discovering is better ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Oh-Man Lance found more but no one was counting besides me.... Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawooten Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 (edited) Very nice specimens, it is very hard to find them in that kind of condition really great job! Edited November 12, 2008 by lawooten The best days are spent collecting fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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