I made another trip to Post Oak Creek Thursday morning. I explored a new spot on the creek for the first time. We had some rain and snow in the area last week, but I don’t expect it was enough to raise the creek level too much, or wash out much new stuff, but it definitely had everything muddy Thursday. I was surprised that, on this 70 something degree day, there were still spots of snow in shady parts of the creek, over a week after our only snow of the year.

It was obvious that there weren’t as many teeth in this segment of the creek, and I didn’t find any larger teeth. But like other parts of the creek, there were teeth, along with other interesting stuff, to be found. Some in situ photos.

Here is what I brought home Thursday. The bison tooth that joined all the fossils looked like it had been in the creek a long time.

These are the only two Ptychodus teeth I found.

Here is the prettiest tooth of the day. There are so many broken teeth in Post Oak Creek, finding one in this kind of shape will bring a smile to your face. It’s a Scapanorynchus raphiodon anterior tooth.

Here are the other teeth I took photos of individually.

And there always seems to be interesting bones to be found here too. This one looks to me like the upper part of an Enchodus fang.

This one looks like it came from a joint of some kind. A mosasaur, maybe.

And then there’s this. I have no idea what it is. It has such a distinctive shape. I’ve asked in The Fossil Forum to see if anyone recognizes it.

And finally, my favorite find of the day. I’ve only found one other fish vert this large. If you’ve cleaned as many fish as I have, you can appreciate just how large the fish was that this belonged to. It’s enough to make you take a moment to marvel at the amazing creatures who occupied our space all those years ago.