I took off Monday morning and drove to Sherman to hunt a Grayson County creek again. With the drought we’ve had, all the creeks there were getting pretty picked over. But, much of the county had had 1.5 inches of rain in the past 14 days, and I wanted to see if that was enough to wash much new material into the creek. The spot where I visited is one of my favorites. It’s too short a hike from the access point to escape a lot of hunting, but it usually holds quite a few fossils anyway.

It was obvious from walking the creek bed that the water from the rains had gotten above the lowest gravel beds, but it looked more like a gentle wash, and I got the impression that while the water may have helped uncover a few fossils, it wasn’t enough to really wash in more fossils. We need more of a floor for that, it seems. But, as always, I did find some cool fossils. Here are a few, as they lay on the gravel bars. Click the photos to be able to zoom in for a closer look.

Even without new material washed in the creek, I was able to find over 100 teeth. It’s amazing, the number of fossils the creeks in this area produce.

Here is the biggest of the five Ptychodus teeth I found. A real beauty, I think it’s my favorite of the day.

I think this is the prettiest of the other teeth.

Here are the other teeth I took individual photos of.