| Today the Dallas Paleontological Society had a
fieldtrip to an abandoned quarry in the Duck Creek
formation and then to a housing clearing in the Goodland
formation. |
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| Entering the quarry... |
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starfish part (Willis Knight)
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ammonites (found by Brian Bowles)
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Neithea bellula
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| After the abandoned quarry we caravanned to the large
Goodland formation exposure west of Fort Worth. The uppermost
terraces of the clearing gave up Salenia, Tetragramma, and Holectypus
echinoids. |
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pic by Roz |
Salenia mexicana echinoid
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Salenia mexicana echinoid
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Tylostoma snail
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Tetragramma echinoid (Brian Bowles)
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A Nerinea gastropod???? (Roger Fry)
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"Ghost" crustacean limbs
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Trichotropis shumardi gastropod
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(same)
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pic by Roz
