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Sherman TX

Post Oak Creek shark-tooth gravels

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Also reported: Cretodus, fish verts.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: creek cutting the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk contact, Late Cretaceous shark teeth by the hundred in urban gravel bars

Texas Monthly profiled the site; city of Sherman is building a park around the collecting reach; countless documented hauls

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Flash floodsBroken glass and metal in gravel, steep slick banks

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