JohnJ Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Last Sunday, Danwoehr and I had the chance to visit a Pleistocene area where he has permission to hunt. The Texas forecast was warm early and cold later. It was nice having the right gear when the wind kicked up during a cold downpour. We persisted through the intermittent showers to find some cool stuff. There was some sandstone in the area that took on a variety of shapes. We joked back and forth about who was finding the most "mammoth teeth"! It was a fun trip to start the year. Sometimes it's the way a find presents itself that makes it memorable. The large find of the day... A find we joked about...sandstone covered in algae... The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Awsome jaw frag!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Boy Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 It was nice having the right gear when the wind kicked up during a cold downpour. We persisted through the intermittent showers to find some cool stuff. It's amazing how insignificant annoying weather elements become when you're consumed with good fossil collecting, as if you're in another dimension and nothing else matters. I'm not talking tornados, floods, hurricanes, etc...LOL But a little rain makes my fossils nice and shiny when I collect them as long as I'm prepared. Nice finds! Kevin Wilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Great hunting, any ids yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Yes a little rain is always nice to have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Great finds where's the rest of the stuff LOL. Nice enamel preservation on the teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy1971 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Thanks for the in situ picture. I always appreciate seeing them in original setting. Lets the rest of us have dreams of our own find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Nice finds!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Way cool finds. It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Nice teeth! and uh... other stuff.... I'll have to show you mine sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 Great hunting, any ids yet? The horse teeth were really neat. They're fairly common, but they initially looked like a jaw could be under the sand.... The large bone is still a mystery. Dan's first thoughts were that it might be from a sloth. I can't pin it down yet, but he may be correct. Anyone have any ideas on the algae covered sandstone...(he slowly pulls the velvet hammer from behind his back)? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 oh, heck...here it comes... why yes! i know what it is! it's a chevron antler from a deermoth! <waiting> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I'm thinking burrow cast for the sandstone (from a deermoth larva ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Having had the unfair advantage of viewing this sandstone specimen first hand, I'll quietly sit and see what others think this is.......... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 ok, i just got the shape a bit, and am guessing that my prior guessings were wrong, but this is a fairly annoying contest, probably with a silver hoodoo as the prize, huh? ok, one more guess. i'm thinking it's an atlatl for a big-butted dart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 oh, heck...here it comes...why yes! i know what it is! it's a chevron antler from a.... As I mentioned, Dan and I were joking back and forth holding up our sandstone "teeth", "spearpoints", and "bones". So, I grabbed another, algae covered piece of stone and held it up toward Dan. "What do you think this is??", I jested (sorry, tracer; i know that's usually your job, but you weren't there and I was doing my best). Before I could remember a name to skip sideways at Dan, he blurted "Tetrameryx shuleri". "Yeah, that would be cool!" as I pictured the weird horned antelope. Too bad it was sandstone. So, I tossed it back with the rest of it's slimy kin...and it broke. We'd been pitching sandstone all day, but the white core that caught my eye wasn't normal. It didn't get any more normal when I picked up both pieces to show Dan. "OK, now what do you think this is?", I said. His jaw dropped...somewhere on the ground with mine! The joke was on us! It wasn't just sandstone anymore. After I brushed off the dirt and slime at the house, more of the bone became visible... So, is it part of THIS and THIS? The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 it isn't fair. i wasn't there. you're dreamin' son, that ain't the one. but when in doubt, you prep it out. remove the stone, just leave the bone. and then you'll see, what it might be. it ain't from cattle... ...it's an atlatl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 p.s. - you threw a fossil on the ground and broke it. that's 1.5 million years of bad luck... you should have immediately pinched dan and thrown him over your left shoulder. (just kiddin', dan. figured you wouldn't mind being a humor prop) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 p.s. - you threw a fossil on the ground and broke it. that's 1.5 million years of bad luck... Dang...1.5 million! It was a Pleistocene fossil...can't I get a reduction on that sentence? Meanwhile, I'll keep prepping it out. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 hey, just so we're clear, "prepping it out" doesn't mean throwing it against hard objects until the sandstone is all broken off. sorry about the 1.5 million, but purposely damaging a whatzit is a federal karma beef and they're under mandatory sentencing guidelines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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