Posted: 9/12/2013 6:03:18 AM EDT
These were found in Central Texas near the Austin area:
Any fossil experts have info on them? |
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I don't know, but if you know the rock formation it was found in, or just a more precise location than Central Texas, you can probably find out pretty easily with a web search.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=austin+area+fossils&src=IE-TopResult&FORM=IE10TR http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/npl/collections/invertebrates/ammonoids.html |
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I found something a couple weeks ago at my deer lease in Coleman, tx that I couldn't identify. While searching for pics of fossils I found this website http://northtexasfossils.com/ He documents and catalogs fossils he finds in Northern/Central TX. I sent him a couple pics of the fossils and he identified them as coral. Probably dated to the Pennsylvanian Period.
If you don't get any answers you may send him a pic or two and see what he comes up with. I think, and I'm no expert, but the first two pics may be some sort of coral. Branches or fingers of coral that were broken off. Like I said I may be wrong but the pitted look of the fossils reminds me of coral for some reason. Here is what I found, the curved piece is what I wasn't sure of, I thought it was a tooth, he said it was a type of coral. 
Second one I figured was coral but wasn't sure. 
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Looks like late Cretaceous... all look like some sort of calcium carbonate, i.e. marine fossils, which is pretty obvious about the last one... the other ones are probably some kind of invertebrates, which makes sense if that was the area since the Woodbine, Austin, and Eagle Ford are primarily marine deposits of sandy-shaly mudstones or a similar mixture thereof. |