Uintah Basin Record | 1937-04-16 | Page 3 | Biggest Oyster Shell is Found in Texas

Biggest Oyster Shell ShellIs Is Found in Texas Alpine Texas Biggest oyster shell in the world is the distinction claimed for an enormous fossil four feet long and three feet wide dug up by geologists of the national national national na na- park se service vice in the proposed pro pro- z I posed Big Bend National Park area in western Texas Dr Charles N. N Gould who has been working in the rich fossil deposits of the region thinks there may even be bigger shells waiting to be excavated Another biggest fossil discovered discovered discovered ered in the Big Bend country is a ten foot petrified tree No other tree of that size living or fossil has ever been found in Texas The region is also rich richin in fossils of or dinosaurs dinosaurs dinosaurs dino dino- saurs and extinct elephants