Red River Paleontology

11/04/2024

Fish jaw (about 50mm) from the Miocene Temblor fm.

10/30/2024

Just finished our Miocene Temblor formation trip in California. We collected more than 600 shark teeth including a 2.75" Cosmopolitodus hastalis tooth and a 3" posterior Megalodon Tooth. Found many incredible fish verts, whale toe bones, dolphin,whale, and seal vertebrae, and sea lion and whale teeth.

01/19/2024

Dean kicking back with the 60 cm (nearly 2 foeet) long Metoposaurus skull from the Triassic Cooper Canyon formation near Lubbock TX.

Specimen was collected with a nice large innerclavicle shown in the pic. Several vertebrae and partial pelvis collected but not in photograph.

This is a massive amphibian with impressive teeth!

12/28/2023

Late Pennsylvanian Age Edopoidea from Texas. This strange animal is Chenoprosopus.

10/06/2023

Eryops megacephalus! Large Permian amphibian!!! Skull is about 14" long and 12.5" wide

08/23/2023

Hey buddies. It has been a while since we posted much. Sorry about that. Earlier this year we found a clutch of Diplocaulus skulls and skeletons. Still prepping a bunch of stuff. Pics of two of the skulls

05/29/2023

This past Friday and Saturday we were in Jackson Mississippi at the Museum of Natural Science for the opening of the Permian monsters exhibit. This is a pretty cool exhibit with amazing animals. I highly recommend a visit.

We were on channel 12 news.

News.

02/06/2023

A few of the first finds at our new Miocene site in California.

01/29/2023

Dimetrodon skeleton from our room!!!

01/29/2023

Today was a good day. We had Ben and Adrian come see us and get some cool shark and phytosaur teeth.

We have seen old friends and met new ones.

07/12/2021

How I identify the bonebed? The Permian specimens can be found isolated, in hard stone matrix,, in channel deposits that form conglomerate beds, in mudstones that represent overbank ponds or semi-stagnant slow-moving streams, ponds, lakes, or locations deposited by floods, and in paleosol clays. Each location type can produce amazing specimens. The midst one in this location is anywhere from 50mm to 500mm thick and is full of Xenacanthid shark teeth and spines as well as float material from terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates.

The larger Eryops material was found near the mudstone layer.

07/11/2021

This is an interesting piece from the new Young County, TX site. This is a partiality articulate Eryops vertebrae with the vertebral rib processes in place. On the bottom is a inner centrum nearly in correct position. On top of the basal section of the neural arch is a post-sacral inner centrum. I do not see any pluera centra but the piece overall is a rare assemblage of the rhachitomous Eryops vertebrae. Pretty cool