Microfossils from Texas--lost of small fossil teeth and shells

[Silver Phoenix]

I have some microfossil material for sale for those who like indoor fossil hunting. Perfect for getting kids interested in fossils

This material is from the famous Stone City Formation of Texas. This site is well known for its many well preserved invertebrate fossils. While vertebrate fossils are nearly impossible to find here if you don’t know where to look, there are a few small lens’s that contain vertebrate material. If you dig in these, you will find many nice shark teeth, ray plates, and gar and barracuda teeth, among many nicely preserved shells and small corals. This material is from a very obscure and hard to find lens. I have a very limited supply--this material has to be very tediously dug out and then prepped for sorting. We bring back around 4-5 gallons in a 6 hour trip with a friend and myself digging, which turns into about 2 gallons after having all of the clay, sand, and dirt washed out. This very compact and rich material is hard to come by, unlike the much more common materials such as those from Lee Creek, where there is an unlimited supply and the material can just be scooped up, bagged, and put in the vehicle in a very short time with little effort.

I have 4 and 3/4 gallons right now total--I'm keeping 2 gallons of that to sort through myself...as with all the homework I have each week and my hectic schedule, that should take me the entire semester to go through... That leaves 2 and 3/4 gallons for sale of prepped material. I also have some of the unprepped and raw material still.

Prepped Material
The sand, clay, and dirt has been washed out of the material, leaving behind mostly shell debris and fossils. This is ready to be sorted and is very rich in fossils. This has been sifted through ½” and ¼” wire mesh, allowing most of the fossils, including the long teeth and ray plates with a small diameter, to fall right through into the microfossil material. The large dirt clumps have been sifted out in order to pack in as much fossil filled material as possible and to make sorting easier. Any common fossils caught in the screens has been thrown in the microfossil material. This microfossil material is completely unsearched. $5 for small sample bag including shipping (2”x2” bag) $10 per quart, $20 per Gallon, $35 for 2 gallons

For anyone that wants to try out their microscope, I have tiny bags of actual "microfossil" material that fell through the window screen onto a much smaller mesh screen during the prepping process. That's $1 a bag--I'll have pictures up tonight.

I only want the actual usps shipping--let me know what you want and I'll let you know what shipping is. I never charge more than $10 for shipping domestic as long as it can fit in the flat rate box.

Various fossil shells, bones, and teeth you can find in the matrix

Quart size

Sample Size

Microfossil material requiring a microscope

 

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[bravowhiskey]

Hey Silver P, looks like you got a good thing going. I googled your site and find it is just down the road, at Whiskey Bridge. You know about the name of the bridge? I was told, it was because folks had to go across the bridge, from Brazos County side, to acquire their hooch, red eye, who-hit-john, etc. in the old days.
It looks like fun, (your product acquisition) You drive all the way from Houston for this? The Brazos' gives up many treasures.

Best,
BW