This fungus is growing on a hard-packed crushed granite RV pad that gets blasted with afternoon sun. What could be surviving here?

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This fungus.
Central Texas zone 8b, near the Balcones Canyonlands. Escarpment live oak and Ashe juniper growing nearby.
- Went ahead and sliced it open. This is not a puffball, based on what I'm reading it's probably an earthball. Might be Scleroderma polyrhizum "dead man's hand" or Scleroderma michiganense "potato earthball." Either way, not going to eat this one!
  
  Google image search tells me that's either an earth puffball or a piece of bread with black garlic on it.
- Removed
Puffballs! Step on them when really dry and they make a satisfying POP under your foot
App on my phone says Hard-Skinned Puffball
- I get called that all the time in the app on my phone
- are you sure that isn't just a case of your phone dissing you?
Eat it
- Was hoping for an ID from an anonymous source on Lemmy first
  
  Whether or not it kills you will help us identify it
  
  I see these occasionally, north of Utopia
  
  I am a professional mushroomologist, I reckon you just go with it
Looks like some sort of Bovista (puffball) to me.

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