I’ve been having so much fun exploring Post Oak Creek in recent weeks that I decided to try another creek in the area Monday morning. The gravel bars in the creek looked much like those in Post Oak Creek, with lots of fossilized shell pieces everywhere, but in a hour of hunting, I didn’t find a single tooth. So, I decided to pull the plug on that, and drove on over to one of the spots on Post Oak Creek where I’ve been hunting. I was late enough arriving that I didn’t have a lot of time to hunt, and just limited myself to three gravel bars I could reach without too much hiking.

The water level in the creek is still very low. There were lots of tracks and evidence of digging, so I knew it was very picked over. We really need a good rain to bring some new fossils to the gravel bars. But I still managed to find some teeth. Here are some in situ photos for today’s “Find the fossil” game.

Here is what I brought home.

These were the only two Ptychodus teeth of the day.

It took me a little while to figure out what this was. It’s the middle section of a broken gastropod.

There were no spectacular teeth from this trip. Here are the ones I thought worthy of an individual photo.