Baby Ammonite? Or More....

[seagyfree]

Picked this up in Central Texas along the Colorado River this afternoon. Its certainly cute enough for a newbie like myself :]

[caldigger]

I see what appears to be a gastropod in the first pic. can't make out anything much in the second except for the same gastropod on the left.

[tmaier]

It's a partial cast in a mold. I'm not sure if it is a gastropod or ammonite.

Yes... cute.

[seagyfree]

Do you think there would be other things inside?

[tmaier]

That looks like pretty solid limestone. Attempting to fracture it open would probably result in uncontrollable fracture lines, possible destroying your gastropod.

I think only a person with an air abrader could attempt to expose more.

[Auspex]

Do you think there would be other things inside?

I'd say there's a chance, given some of the pits and vugs visible on the exterior, but you would risk the gastropod to find out.

[erose]

Where there is one, there will be more. Leave it be and keep looking for better and better specimens.

[Ptychodus04]

Most certainly gastropod. Possibly Gynodes sp. Do you know formation or locality info? That is helpful for identification. Central Texas has quite a spread of ages.

[seagyfree]

Glen Rose Formation