• Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago

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    Hey @james-race ! I’m not totally sure that this is a fossi. While your initial photo looked promising, your subsequent photos from other angles make it seem more like a mineralized sedimentary rock. I’d not see anything that would suggest organic structure such as capillary marks in bone, etc. If somehow it somehow is a fossil, then it has been…[Read more]

  • Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago

    3 years, 8 months ago
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Greetings @james-race ! Do you have any photos from different angle? It would help to identify the specimen better. Grand Prairie is surrounded by Late Cretaceous and Pleistocene strata. But, I agree with @lisa-craig that it appears at first glance to be from an ungulate of some variety.

  • Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 9 months ago

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    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hi @james-race! Looks like you’re probably collecting in strata from the Woodbine Group, which is of Cenomananian Age of the Late Cretaceous Period. It’s difficult to tell from the photo, but your specimen could be a rib segment or limb bone. It’s possibly from an archosaur or dinosaur, but it’s difficult to determine. Could upload a few more…[Read more]