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Show ! BIG OYSTER SHELLS j UNCOVERED IN TEXAS BR.OWN8VTL.LE, T-xas. Oct. 1 nit fossil onter shells, said by I scientists to be more than 400.000 years old and some of thorn measur-' ! tnj,' more than three foel In length. ' been discovered In a clay bank in Starr county. Texas, near a petri-1 fled forest. I The fossils were found In a cli" anl Shall bank about 1.000 feet above sea level. Some of the specimens , have been sent to the Smithsonian Institute In-stitute and others to the public health J service. Scientists declare that huge reptiles I swam In the waters which covered the lower Rio Grande valley In the j paleozlc age and that the large oy- ' j Fters lodged In the gravel banks along 'the seashore in what Is now Btarr and Zapata counties. Near tho fossil bank arc hundreds: of petrified trcs. some of them four 1 feef in dlanvter. In this forest is a fjarlety of oak now extinct In thlsj I part of the country. |