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Calloway Branch, 80 m upstream from Grapevine Highway

Tarrant County, Texas
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

2 miAsteroidea, Reid locality 11, Main Street fm, Fort WorthFossil2 miAsteroidea, Reid locality 12, Grayson fm, Fort WorthFossil3 miLocality 2, north of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Denton Biostrome, Biofacies AFossil

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About Calloway Branch, 80 m upstream from Grapevine Highway

Calloway Branch, 80 m upstream from Grapevine Highway is a fossil collection site in Tarrant, Texas, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Main Street Limestone, dated to the Early Cenomanian (100.5–93.9 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as carbonate indet. Documented finds include Pachydesmoceras.

Geologic setting

Formation
Main Street Limestone
Geologic interval
Early Cenomanian
Age
100.5–93.9 Ma
Depositional environment
carbonate indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Walker (Calloway) Branch, 80 m upstream from the bridge on the Grapevine Highway (US121) in Haltom City, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas

Fossils found here

Pachydesmoceras
Cephalopoda · Desmoceratidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 175108 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Calloway Branch, 80 m upstream from Grapevine Highway

Can you collect at Calloway Branch, 80 m upstream from Grapevine Highway?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Calloway Branch, 80 m upstream from Grapevine Highway?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 44.5 kg iron meteorite was found at Saginaw in 1979, 7 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.