Have you ever been fossil hunting? What adventures and tips and tricks have you discovered?
At the end of the summer I was bitten by a bug...My husband was bitten by it too! The side affects of this "bite" are: An intense desire to go fossil hunting....LOL! We got this "bug" due to the weather in Texas.
We are currently experiencing a severe drought in Texas. This is a real bummer for farmers. Not much grass for cows, crops have burned up, and wildfires went crazy!
As we were wishing for rain, my husband got this crazy idea to go search lake beds and dried up creeks for fossils. I went with him too, and now we are HOOKED on fossils!
Wow! We were totally surprised at the fossils we found! It is entirely what you would expect to find though - had a large flood covered out planet -- Millions of dead things - buried in rock layers.... It has been super fun! We even found a full ammonite in the side of a creek bank!
So now - my back porch is "littered" with fossils of all kinds. I don't want to be "cured" of this bug just yet. I still have a LOT to learn about this subject.
What kind of fossil adventures have you had? I'd love some good tips about fossil hunting too!
Tags: Fossils, adventure, nature
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Permalink Reply by Kevin W Anderson on -
Ian Any photos of the escape burrows? That would be a wonderful additions to my closed clam presentation. Here in Kansas and Missouri we find layers of composita bachiopods. One such layer is three feet thick layer that is comprized only midsized composita. I have cut a slice of it with a diamond blade saw so you can see the interior and the spiraled organs have been preserved
Ian Juby said:Wow! Nice find Kim! Where was this - do you mind my asking? It's the typical Texas Cretaceous (Part of the Austin chalk sequence); but that could be a loooot of places in Texas! That's a very nice ammonite. I got a couple from a river just south of Waco.....a river whose name I cannot remember for the life of me right now. All I know is that it was the first really hot day in March of that year, the snakes came out to sun themselves, and I kid you not - I stopped counting at 20 snakes. I have never seen so many snakes in my entire young life - and I'm from Canada. I didn't know what to do - so I just took a stick and beat any grass in front of, and around me, to scare away any snakes before I got there.
There's oodles of fossil clams (buried in the closed position) up in Glen Rose, immediately downstream from the Creation Evidence Museum (worth the visit), at the first bend in the river. There's also millions of fossilized tube worms, and occasional fossil earthworms and I've also found urchins there as well. If you head upstream or downstream, you'll also find the burrows from the clams in layers beneath the clam-bearing layer. The clams were catastrophically buried, but can escape through many feet of sediments. You'll see these escape burrows in the layers beneath the clam-bearing layer.
Ian
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