A while back a friend of mine told me to keep my eye out for fossil pearls, very rare, but there out there.  So i did and one day while on my hands and knees I got me one.  His use to be posted on the old site, in matrix, but mine is loose.  I'll have to post some pics of it.  Just wondering if anyone else may have been lucky enough to find one.  (texas post for those who don't know me)

Jax

I have seen a blister pearl from Lee Creek, or at least that is what it was supposed to have been. A blister pearl forms on the shell instead on in the flesh of the oyster. It's sort of like a pimple on the inside of the shell. They are pretty common in the shells of fresh water mussels. I have seen fossil pearls from an Eocene oyster reef in southern Arkansas. The oyster deposit at that site were three or four feet thick and the oysters were nearly a foot long. The biggest pearl I saw from there was about a quarter of an inch across.