(pic by Roz)
(pic by Roz)
(pic by Roz)
| Today me, Roz, Adam, Dean and Roger hunted some Grayson formation spots around Johnson county and some Pawpaw formation spots in Tarrant county, Texas. | ||
| The 1st stop was the Grayson Formation near Burleson, Texas. This location is just below the contact with the overlying Woodbine formation that forms a large hill. The interesting thing about this location is that there were "dwarf" ammonites, gastropods, and turrilites just like the ones found in the Waco Pit, 2 counties south. | ||
| Roz, Adam, Roger |
Roger, Dean, Lance, Adam (pic by Roz) |
Dean (pic by Roz) |
| Roz finds two teeth (pic by Roz) |
Roz's excellent large "dwarf" ammonite. |
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| The 2nd stop was a location near the 1st. Adam found a large tooth. | ||
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Adam's tooth |
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| Dean's tooth and vert |
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| The 3rd stop was an area that produced some large Ilymatogyra arietina oysters. Dean found a couple shark teeth and a vertebra. (no pics) | ||
| The 4th stop was a drainage ditch but only one fossil was found, a nice shark tooth in matrix by Roz. We didn't see anything else and decided to race across town to visit some Pawpaw localities. | ||
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| The 5th stop was an upper Weno formation exposure in Fort Worth. This is just below the locality where the Pawpawsaurus nodosaur was found. This spot produced a few shark teeth and some of the Poecilocrinus microcrinoids (free floating). The crinoids (parts seen in pic) are only about 5 millimeters in width! | ||
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| Spot the microcrinoids! |
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| The 6th stop was a spot adjacent to the 5th stop, but a little higher up into the actual Pawpaw formation. I found a very broken and incomplete starfish. | ||
| starfish |
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