Fossil Finds: Whiskey Bridge
Eocene age Stone City Formation – Bryan, Texas. The last time the Earth had no polar glaciers, sea level was much higher than it is today. Most of Texas was a shallow sea inhabited by marine invertebrates. Snails are the most abundant fossils in this site, but clams and coral can be found too. One of the favored and more rare fossils are shark teeth. Below are examples of what I found there:
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Cnidaria (coral)
Solitary Coral
Balanophyllia desmophylum
Eocene
Stone City Formation
Bryan, Texas
Colonial Coral
Eocene
Stone City Formation
Bryan, Texas
Colonial Coral
Eocene
Stone City Formation
Bryan, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Bivalve (clams)
Bivalve Barbatia uxorispalmeri
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Bivalve Venericardia rotunda
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Bivalve Anomia ephippioides
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Bivalve Caryocorbula deusseni
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Bivalve Notocorbula texana
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Bivalve Pteropsella lapidosa
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Kingdom: Animal – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Gastropoda (snails)
Snail Mesalia clairbornensis
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Turritella sp.
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Protosurcula gabbii
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Architectonica scrobiculata
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Michela trabeatoides
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Athleta lisbonensis
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Athleta petrosus
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Latirus moorei
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Distorsio septemdentata
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Hesperiturris nodocarinatus
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Pseudoliva vetusta carinata
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Conus sauridens
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Levifusus mortoniopsis
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Ancilla staminea
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Ficopsis texana
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Cornulina armigera
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail sp.
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Cochlespiropsis engonata
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Sinum arctatum
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Terebra texagyra
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Snail Protosurcula gabbi
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Modern snail (not a fossil)
Holocene
Bryan, Texas
Modern snail (not a fossil)
Holocene
Bryan, Texas
Modern snail (not a fossil)
Holocene
Bryan, Texas
Modern snail (not a fossil)
Holocene
Bryan, Texas
Modern snail (not a fossil)
Holocene
Bryan, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Scaphopoda
“elephant tusk”
Dentalium sp.
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Chordata – Class: Chondrichthyes
Shark Tooth
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Shark Tooth
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Shark Tooth
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Unnamed species
(Stingray Barb)
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Unnamed species
(Stingray Teeth)
Eocene
Stone City Formation, Bryan, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Chordata- Class: Actinopterygii
Gar and Barracuda Teeth are known from this site.
I have not found any yet.