![]() ![]() We also found some echinoids parts and a spine. The tooth, along with two smaller ones is below. It was, in fact, the first shark tooth I have ever found in my fossil hunting experiences. My favorite was a large shark tooth that I found, just gleaming in the afternoon sun. Me and my dad braved the heat for several hours, as did our friend. My daughter lost interest very quickly, and found a small shady spot under one of the sparse cedars in the pit. And they gray marl of the pit reflected the heat back up from the ground as well. The heat was oppressive the temperature had to be in the upper 90s. There were few clouds and a very intermittent breeze. We drove back to the site and trekked down the trail to the pit. As we were filling out the paperwork, in walked our friend from the Whiskey Bridge. ![]() We arrived at Army Corps of Engineers Office and signed in. It was hot in town, but we had seen nothing yet. After lunch at one of the amazing food trucks in town (we had the barbeque!) we headed out to the pit. It's a small world! I really wish I could remember his name! We also found out that he lives less than ten minutes from my dad. ![]() In fact, he told me he was an amateur fossil hunter who had just recently gotten back into the hobby, and he was looking around for possible sites where he could bring his kids. He had never been there and was interested. I congratulated him and told him where we were headed next, the Waco Research Pit. He had hit the jackpot, and piece after piece were coming out of the hillside. He reached into his bucket and pulled out a one gallon zip-lock bag with 10 or 12 HUGE Conus specimens. I showed him my two Conus specimens, and he said that he had found some as well. The root is missing, as well as the tip, but she was excited to find the first shark tooth of the trip, and her first shark tooth ever!Īfter about an hour and a half of looking, I went over to see how our friend was doing. My daughter managed to find a shark tooth as well. I believe that they are Balanophyllia desmophylum. I also stumbled across some very large corals that I had never seen before. The scale is in centimeters (as they will all be in this post). My only other specimen was just a fragment. I found two nearly complete Conus sauridens, which I have never had the fortune of finding. We found lots of great specimens, many larger than ones I had found on my previous two trips. We stayed on the south side of the train trestle, while our new friend moved to the north side. I glanced behind us and another fossil hunter was following us down (I'm sorry, but I can't remember his name!). We grabbed our gear and began heading down to the river. We arrived just after 8:00 am and headed out to the Whiskey Bridge for some Eocene fossils. After all, its a little bit of a drive to get to Midlothian from Kingwood (220 miles), and we would be passing some great sites that my dad had never visited.Īt 5:30 am, my dad met my daughter and me at our house, and we set out for College Station, Texas at 6:00 am. ![]() I had to be back on Sunday morning, so we figured we'd leave early Friday morning and squeeze two days out of the trip. I put my dad and my ten-year-old daughter on the list as well, and we figured we'd make a weekend of it. It was my very first field trip with a group, and I was extremely excited. In August, I received an invitation to join a group to hunt fossils and minerals at a cement quarry in Midlothian, Texas on September 10th. ![]()
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