This is a nice fossil shark tooth from Eocene fossils Site on the Whiskey Bridge of the Brazos River in Burleson County Texas. Shark Teeth are rare from this location. Dad, the late Skip Breard and myself found several pockets that had been exposed. The pockets appeared to be shell, gravel and teeth that had accumulated between sand bars near a shore line. We found large shark teeth, crock teeth and large shells that had been worn from wave action back and forth. Skip was writing a book on this location along with all the fish ear bones. unfortunately Skip passed away before he could finish his book. This is from the famous Brazos River Whiskey Bridge Site. This was the Holotype for most sea shells from this site. Please copy the description from here. This was found back in the 80s by my father George Wolf. The Second to last picture is dad digging the site at the Whiskey Bridge. The last picture is where dad would set and sort through the broken down matrix and search for the micro shark teeth in his fossil room. Please copy this info for future reference and feel free to copy the photos of dad.
Age: Middle Eocene epoch (40 Million years old)
Species: Shark
Formation: Stone City
Location: Whiskey Bridge Brazos River, Burleson Co. Texas
From the collection of George Wolf of Pasadena Texas.
10-01-1935 to 11-18-2017
History 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.