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May 29, 2010 - Cretaceous Fossils, Union Co, MS

This month's trip was to northern Mississippi, where we collected in the Coon Creek formation.  The area was once a bay in the Gulf of Mexico.  This is a Late Cretaceous site, where we found numerous turritella (most in an extremely fragile condition), and even more crab and lobster parts, mostly looking like they had exploded, though several intact "bellies" and a couple of claws w

May 16, 2009 - Cretaceous Fossils, Sumter County, AL

Old hands as well as new joined up early on Saturday morning for a trip to some great Cretaceous gully sites in West Alabama.   Dr. John Hall and Dr.

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miscellaneous teeth and crab leg

Couple of badly worn shark teeth, fish tooth (enchodus?), echinoid spine and small part of crab leg.

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crab, shell

The long narrow fossil is part of a crab leg.

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crab fossil

Tiny pieces of a crab found by Claire.

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fossil crabs

Pile of fossil crabs.

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crab in matrix

Crab in clay matrix

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Crab in matrix

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Crab in clay matrix

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