Some of my fossils!

[pyledriver]

Stumbled into this section the other night..neat stuff!!! Here are a few of my fossils. I need to dig out the others and get pics..I don't have a good way to display them that also keeps them safe, so I pack them up. Unfortunately I forget about them this way!

 

[Harry Pristis]

Nice group of fossils! Are they from Texas?

Here's a fossil from the Glass Mountains of West Texas. You have to drip hydrochloric acid on the massive limestone to expose the "glass" fossils within.

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[pyledriver]

WOW!! I've never seen one like that...

Yes, those are from north Texas, north and west of the metromess! I usually pick them up when hunting for critters, which means that sometimes my critter hunts turn into fossil expeditions! LOL..I'm kinda A.D.D. that way..

 

[fossis]

I know about 'boxing them up', we have moved several times, & it's like Christmas when I open them again.

Fossis............

 

[pyledriver]

So true... I once found a small box of arrowheads I had tucked away for safekeeping, it brought back a flood of memories about the place I found them. It also started me on the search for the larger box that had the bulk of my collection, that I never found! At least the small box contained the best ones..but I'd still like to find the other box!

Thing about the fossils though-I had a huge collection as a kid that I'd pulled from the local creeks. My parents got rid of them when I went to college and by the time I even remembered them to look for them it was years later. Maybe one of these days I'll run across a scrap sale or auction that has the type of cabinets you see in rock shops for displaying cool stuff...