Description: This is a section of shell to a Pliestocene Giant Land Tortoise. This is from the old spoil mounds along the Texas City Dike. Back in the 70s and 80s they dredged the ship channel to make it deeper for larger ships. They pumped the dredge to make the dike and there were large mounds that had large exposer to the surf. There were many fossil mammel bones and teeth found along the shore. It was a very rich layer of fossils. sadly all the mounds have weathered away and have now been rocked over. There are no more fossils found at this location. This is from my fathers collection and was collected back in the 90s. From the collection of George Wolf of Pasadena Texas Age: PleistoceneSpecies: TortoiseFormation: Dredge deposit from ship channel Location:Texas City Dike in Texas City, Tx. From the collection of George Wolf of Pasadena Texas. 10-01-1935 to 11-18-2017History of my Father George E. Wolf, dad was born in Byers, Texas he fought in Korea in the 50's at Heart Break Ridge, and moved to Big Springs, Texas after the war he married my mother Martha Head. They moved to Houston and shortly after to Pasadena, Texas in 1970. Dad was a longshoreman on the Houston ship channel until his retirement, he also had a fishing lure business that started in the 70's and was a member of the Houston Bass club. He loved the outdoors and fishing which was the beginning of the collecting for dad. After shelves of fishing trophies it was just natural for him to start a new collection. As a family we would go to Galveston and camp at the pass. At night dad would gig for flounder and at day would fish for Specks. He would take breaks to walk down the beach with mom and us kids. We started picking up sand dollars and sea shells. Dad ran into a lady that was walking the beach picking up sea shells and fossil shark teeth. She had a little shell shop in Seabrook, Texas so we would stop by and see what she had and that's how it all started. Dad joined the Galveston Shell Club and we would attend meetings once a month. Through the club we found out about other places to find shells and fossils so we took a trip to Florida out to the Keys were we stopped in Venice Florida and picked up about a thousand little shark teeth washing up on the beach. After that we joined the Clear lake Gem and Mineral club. Then we Joined the Houston Gem and Mineral's paleontology Section. Growing up we would spend almost every weekend camping at Lake Summerville, Lake Conroe, Lake Livingston, Lake Georgetown and many more. All the arrowheads and fossils that I'm offering here are from my fathers collection. They where found by the whole family either Dad, Mom, my brother George Jr, Sisters Valerie and Reena, and my self David. Dad kept the collection free from all modern made points and never bought points from anyone else. He shared his collection with the world by displaying them in local schools, library's, and Gem and mineral shows. Dad was a member of the Texas Archeological Society for 35 years. Dad passed away late last year, he was 82. Thank you for reading his biography. I look forward to selling these very sentimental treasures to ones that would value them almost as much as our family have. Shipping info: We do combine shipping, if you are buying more then one group or more then one item please wait to pay until we send you a combined invoice. We have our items listed to take up to 10 to 15 business days to ship. Please ignore this. Most all items will ship within 5 days. We list it with 10 to 15 business days incase we are out of town when an item sales. If we are out of town and you purchase an item we will let you know that we are out of town and when we will be back. How to navigate our store: We have hundreds of items listed. The best way to view items you are interested in is to go to our store view. To the right under seller information there is a link that says visit store. Once you are in the store you will see a category list to the left. You will be able to find items you are interested in faster by just clicking the category listed. Example Arrowheads, Coprolites, dinosaur fossils and many more. You can also save this seller by clicking the heart near the top of the page next to save this seller and have it in your my eBay page for a faster link to return to our site. If you are using a smart phone it may show up different and the category list links may not work.
Price: 12 USD
Location: Webster, Texas
End Time: 2024-11-07T02:08:02.000Z
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