Fossil?

[LuBowhunter]

I found this oyster shell on the top of a hill on our place in Gillespie County. I’d have to assume it’s a fossil? What’s the Green Screen say?





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[flywise]

We found a lot of those on Caliche hill tops.Looks like a shell to me

[Quackerbox]

I've seen a million of those things in caliche roads, crushed concrete piles and roads near the coast

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[Lost10mm]

Yessir, extremely common in Central Tx

[Johnny Dangerr]

100 million years old from when this was covered by the ocean. I got some stuff from W. Tx...

[Texas Grown]

Yes, oyster fossil.

[txtimetravler]

The hill country was covered in ocean. Lots of clams and oysters around the area.

Those ‘hills’ were formed by water erosion.

[Jon B]

The hill country was covered in ocean. Lots of clams and oysters around the area.

Those ‘hills’ were formed by water erosion.

Sorry, saw your handle.....I can't doubt you!

[Trapper76]

Sorry, saw your handle.....I can't doubt you!

Hilarious!

[Johnny Dangerr]

The hill country was covered in ocean. Lots of clams and oysters around the area.

Those ‘hills’ were formed by water erosion.

Yup.

Found a back bone sticking out of the sand on a 60 square mile place in W.Texas. Took the owner out 2 days later and could not find it. Lots of fish died in S. and Central Texas...

[RifleBowPistol]

Yes, oyster fossil.

That's what I thought it looks like.

[RifleBowPistol]

I think my mother still has numerous fossils we found back in the 90s. The piece of property right along IH 35 in New Braunfels, where the Creek Side shopping center is now, was covered with thousands of fossils that look like 6" to 8" diameter snails or some type of sea shells. We dove hunted the place, after it sold to whoever developed that piece of property. The pasture looked like it had white rocks all over the place, they were mostly fossils. We probably loaded 20 of them in the truck, and took them home. They went i my mother's flower beads. I think she kept at leas some of them when she moved years ago.

I would bet the guys working on the construction crew that turned that place into a shopping center probably loaded up truck loads of those things and sold them. There were enough out there, they could have made all of the walkways out of those fossils.

[T-roy66]

Fossils from the last global warming

[SJP51]

Climate change has happened before. Must have been the campfires of our ancestors.

[slayr]

We find a lot of actual shells embedded in the rock on our place between Del Rio and Sonora. After some reading seems they are most likely 200+ million years old. Crazy when you think about, dinosaurs were here 65 millions years ago.