I made a trip to the North Sulfur River yesterday. I was was trying out a new part of the river. The FM2990 bridge had been my favorite spot on the river to hunt, but things have changed. They are damming up the river to build a new lake, Lake Ralph Hall. This has closed the fossil park near Ladonia, so they built a new parking lot and made access a lot easier at the FM2990 bridge. With all the new fossil hunters going there, I knew I needed a new spot, so yesterday, I tried this spot further down the river, at the FM2675 bridge. I didn’t find much there, so I’m going to keep looking at new spots on the river.

Like further up the river, there were lots and lots of Egogyra Ponderosa oysters, including some beautiful large specimens. But they are very heavy to carry around in a backpack, and I already have plenty of them at home, so I resisted the temptation to pick up more. You expect to find large stuff at NSR, and after hiking quite a ways down the river without finding much at all, I decided that on the hike back, I needed to start looking for small stuff.

Here are the bones from the trip. Nothing I can identify, but cool all the same. Click the photos to be able to zoom in and get a closer look.

Where I hunted further up the river, there are lots and lots of baculites to be found. Here, all I could find were small broken pieces of baculites, like the two on the left in this photo. I thought the tiny ammonite on the right was cool, though.

I’ve always liked finding pieces of worm tubes like the ones in this photo. It can be really hard to spot them at NSR, though.

And finally, the teeth. Teeth always seem to be really hard to find at NSR, and when you do, they’re usually in rough shape, like these two in the bottom photo. And the top photo shows what you’re searching in to find them.