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Sample SA3, Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive

Tarrant County, Texas
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Next site in TexasSycamore Creek Valley, 4 1/2 mi SE of Fort Worth and 1/2 mi NE of loc. 209 · 0.8 mi

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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

0.8 miSycamore Creek Valley, 4 1/2 mi SE of Fort Worth and 1/2 mi NE of loc. 209Fossil1 mi4 1/2 mi SE of Fort Worth, 1/4 mi S of International Great Northern Railway...Fossil1 miAsteroidea, Reid locality 6, Ellis Ranch Road, Pawpaw fm, Fort WorthFossil

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About Sample SA3, Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive

Sample SA3, Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive is a fossil collection site in Tarrant, Texas, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Pawpaw Formation, dated to the Late Albian (106.3–100.5 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as carbonate indet. Documented finds include Ivolepas worthensis, Diotascalpellum acies, Angulatergum milviformis.

Geologic setting

Formation
Pawpaw
Geologic interval
Late Albian
Age
106.3–100.5 Ma
Depositional environment
carbonate indet.
Recorded occurrences
3
Locality notes

Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive, Fort Worth, Tarrant County. 32°41'08.03"N, 97°18'33.07"W.

Fossils found here

Ivolepas worthensis
Thecostraca · Titanolepadidae
Diotascalpellum acies
Thecostraca · Scalpellidae
Angulatergum milviformis
Thecostraca · Stramentidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 212390 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Sample SA3, Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive

Can you collect at Sample SA3, Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive?

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 Sample SA3, Salvation Army locality, East Seminary Drive?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 44.5 kg iron meteorite was found at Saginaw in 1979, 12 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.