Dinosaur tracks
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mnmtranching
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I don't know :?: Could have talked me into the dinosaur theory.
backhoeboogie
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If that still works it is one heck of a chicken track! Gonna need an awful big pot for that gumbo.
This is the real McCoy. I've got several of them.
This is the real McCoy. I've got several of them.
This is the real McCoy. I've got several of them.
wow that's pretty cool ! we are always looking for fossils, some times i find a good fern, or a piece of petrified plant, but they are rare, the guys who work in the coal mines run on to some good ones from time to time ... pretty amazing to think how old they are.. :shock:
wow that's pretty cool ! we are always looking for fossils, some times i find a good fern, or a piece of petrified plant, but they are rare, the guys who work in the coal mines run on to some good ones from time to time ... pretty amazing to think how old they are.. :shock:
ga. prime
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Looks like a Sassafras leaf.
backhoeboogie
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brownmule":38y2ow1k said:
Kids are in to dino everything. I guess it is Barney. There are a few teachers around who borrow loose casts from time to time. I have two tiny ones on loan to a display, but they are stuck in a glass case and kids can't touch them.
Of all the ones that have been borrowed, only one have been broken.
I have never sold any of them. I have had many tempting offers. There have been some donated to paleantologists.
The one in the picture is affixed to a slab of rock.
ga. prime
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A Sassafrasasaurus perhaps?
backhoeboogie
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ga. prime":cjejcsf1 said:
Acrocanthasaurus (or something like that) the paleantologists tell me. Acro was much like T-Rex, only about 10 million years older.
ga. prime
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Backhoe, are you in the Permian Basin? Man, wish we'd had some Dinos here back when. The coastal plain of Ga. was oceanic in nature in those days. Only fossils in this area are small seashells. No oil in the ground whatsoever.
backhoeboogie
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ga. prime":25w345kd said:
No. I am about 50 miles west of Fort Worth. If you know where Comanche Peak is, not the nuke power plant but the actual landmark. I can see it. I am up on a hill about 10 miles north of it.
Dinosaur Valley State Park is about 20 miles south of here.
If you go into any river bottom around here and clean the limestone with brooms, you find tracks. The Brazos, the Paluxy, and the Bosque Rivers all have trackways.
I had plowed up a bunch of limestone slabs. Mostly it was patio stone. We stacked them against the fence. A stone company wanted to buy them so I told my kids if they'd stack them on the trailer, I'd haul them in. Each day when I got home from work, there'd be four tons of stone on the trailer. The kids would get a couple hundred dollars.
That is how I got started selling stone part time. I now have a caterpillar and a backhoe. When you start pulling up limestone slabs, you pull up all kinds of things with fossils in them.
ga. prime
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Very interesting, backhoe.
