garyc Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Found this on a gravel bar on the Brazos the other day. I really don't know how fossilized this is, but I thought it was cool anyway. The matrix on it is like concrete, but the hot Texas sun can probably have that effect pretty quickly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Whoa! Super find, Gary! I found one about 25 years ago in your same general area with similar characteristics...it is a fossil. Well done! The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 THAT is cool! Looks fossilized to me. "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...
mikeymig Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I love finding turtles, including those that are fossilized. Its a little guy! What is the age of the rocks it was found in? mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYAL Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Congratulations on a super find!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 That's killer! I always wanted to find one. That's definitely fossilized. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share Posted April 25, 2014 The age is a mixture of recent to pleistocene. sometimes miocene and eocene can wash down river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Awesome fossil!!!! Congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Gary, mine has a similar type of mudstone matrix attached. Melissa Winans at the University of Texas identified it as Pleistocene species back then. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Way to go on the terrific find . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 That's a wonderful find! I love turtles and would be thrilled to find a fossil one! Way to go ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 absolutely spectacular Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Great find!!! Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 ... ... "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanNREMTP Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Very nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfrr Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 coolness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 It reminds me of Oligocene turtles I collect in Nebraska. I would never have guessed it was Pleistocene It looks older to me. You should enter it in fossil of the month! Mikey Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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