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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agohi again @mackenzie-smith & @lisa-craig – I think this may be similar to your other find. Another Hemiaster? It’s difficult to tell from the image.
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi @lisa-craig & @mackenzie-smith – It’s definitely an irregular echinoid. It looks like Hemiaster to me, a common heart urchin. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/echinoid-directory/taxa/taxon.jsp?id=508 what do you think?
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoHi @lisa-craig. This appears to be a sea biscuit (class Echinoidea). You can find information about the geology at https://macrostrat.org/ @jbauer might be able to get a more specific ID on this fossil.
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoHi @lisa-craig. This appears to be a sea biscuit (class Echinoidea). You can find information about the geology at https://macrostrat.org/ @jbauer might be able to get a more specific ID on this fossil.
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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoGreetings @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.
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Gandhi Taymour posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoThank you, @lisa-craig for the very informative response. I’ll do some more research based on what you’ve advised and continue to chip away using a carbide scribe to see how this looks like further under the rock.
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig I agree with @mackenzie-ross-2 I do not see any cellular detail on the cross section. It could be the cast of something or something abiotic. Stephenville is on a marine deposit so it’s more likely to be a sea creature (like a sponge) than a plant.
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MacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig Since it was found near Stephenville it is possible that it is coral since the Cretaceous Trinity Group is a marine deposit. Wood can still wash out to oceans so it’s still possible that it’s wood. Can you get a picture of one of the ends? That would help with ID. Thanks!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig a clearer photo would be useful for ID, but @mackenzie-smith might be able to help!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig from this picture, this appears to be a rock! But a better picture might reveal a fossil for ID!
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Michele DeYoung posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-Craig it does stick to the tongue. Does that indicate bone?
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Elizabeth Reynolds posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig it’s everywhere around here! The water level has been up and down all summer but when it gets low like this it’s so amazing and hard to leave lol. There’s a spring nearby we swim at and my best friend was thinking “god we’ll never make it there cos she can’t stop picking up rocks” 😂
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig if you could update all of your posts with clear photos of the specimen against a neutral background (and with scale for reference) this will help with ID!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig for ID purposes, each entry must be one individual fossil specimen!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months ago@lisa-craig, updating this post with pictures that align with the guidelines I commented previously will help with ID! @mackenzie-smith might be able to help!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoHi @lisa-craig, for accurate ID of specimen, the best pictures are on a flat, neutral colored surface with a scale for reference. Multiple angles of the specimen can also be taken if they are useful for ID! Updating this post with these pictures can help with the ID process moving forward! Thanks!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoHi @lisa-craig, this does not look like a human-made scraper, but if you updated this post with some alternate angles and a scale of the specimen that might help me ID it!