Today I explored a couple areas in Jack County, Texas.
Nothing very exciting was found but I did find some broken but mostly
complete examples of Heliospongia sponges. |
Location 1
![](fieldtrips/2020-01-26/2020-01-26-101316-150.jpg) |
Crinoid bits
![](fieldtrips/2020-01-26/2020-01-26-101235-150.jpg) |
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This location just northeast of
location 1 is either in the Colony Creek Shale or the Thrifty-Graham Fm. |
Location 2
![](fieldtrips/2020-01-26/2020-01-26-113224-150.jpg) |
Crinoid bits
![](fieldtrips/2020-01-26/2020-01-26-105901-150.jpg) |
Trace fossil
![](fieldtrips/2020-01-26/2020-01-26-105644-150.jpg) |
Location 3. This location
in the Placid Shale
produced nice examples of Heliospongia sponges. A week later on
2 Feb 2020 I went back to collect more. |
Location 3
![](fieldtrips/2020-02-02/2020-02-02-090151-150.jpg) |
Sponges as collected
![](fieldtrips/2020-01-26/2020-01-26-125506-150.jpg) |
Sponges reconstructed
![](fieldtrips/2020-02-02/2020-02-03-163817-150.jpg) |