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DFW Fossil Hunting Sites
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Grayson's Bluff - Grapevine
Grayson's Bluff
Grayson's Bluff on Lake Grapevine, extreme NW end. You'll find a Upper Cretaceous Limestone bed with scallops, gryphae and brachipods.

 
Hulen Creek
Hulen Creek

The location is along a creek near the SW corner of Hulen and Bellaire in Fort Worth. You will find clams, snails, echinids (sea urchins), and ammonites in a Upper Cretaceaous Marl/Limestone bed.

 
Dallas Baptist College
Dallas Baptist College

There are two sites near the Dallas Baptist College. The main site one has an Upper Cretaceous Shale bed with small ammonites and ammonite impressions. East on Kiest Blvd, on the hill, is a shaly Austin Chalk outcrop with sharks teeth.

 
Elm Fork Marl Beds
Elm Fork, Dallas

A stretch of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River between Carpenter Freeway and US-35 is a good hunting place during low water intervals. Along the the lower banks and in the river bed are Upper Cretaceous Shales and Marl beds with surprisingly well preserved ammonites, pelecypods and other period fossils.

 

Brazos River at Highway 4 Intersection, Palo Pinto Co.

Below and North of the highway 4 bridge crossing the Brazos (highway between Palo Pinto and Graford) you can find crinoid stems in sand and gravel beds. Probably in any gravel bed beneath any outcrop area on the Brazos especially where there are shaly or marl zones in the above rocks. If you are canoeing, keep your eyes open for possible interesting areas. Who knows what you might find.


    

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