As many of you know, our family (really mostly Jeffrey, Duncan and Ella Peyton) has spent a lot of time over the past few months collecting fossils from nearby housing construction sites. Believe it or not, we have buckets - and I really mean buckets - full of them.
In researching what types of the fossils they might be, Jeffrey ran across an Identification Day event that the Texas Natural Science Center at UT holds twice per year. So, of course he and the older two kids went this past Sunday and took a representative sampling of what they had found.
Interestingly enough, the fossils they have found are 100 - 105 million years old. Everything in this area is considered part of the Glen Rose Formation. It looks like the fossils they've found are pretty representative of Glen Rose, especially considering how similar their collection is to what is shown on Wikipedia and in local geology books.
This has been a fun learning (and hunting) experience for us and for the kids. Ella Peyton was thrilled when she got to take a couple of fossils to school today for show and tell. She was so excited to tell her classmates about finding them and that they were over 100 million years old!
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