Lisbon
June 03, 2006 - Paleocene Fossils, Clarke and Wilcox Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Mon, 06/05/2006 - 11:00pmToday BPS went way down south to Clarke County,
Alabama. We were
quite excited because this was a new site Steve found, and we were
chomping at the bit, ready to go. We found a good variety of
bivalves and gastropods, a few shark teeth and ray teeth. The
most numerous fossil we found is Flabellum
cuneiforme pachyphyllum, a type of
July 31, 2004 - Monroe Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Wed, 08/04/2004 - 11:00pmThis
month BPS
members headed to Monroe
County in South Alabama, where we collected in the Lisbon Formation and
Gosport Sand. Steve and Gilbert took their boats, so we spent
the
day scouting several miles along the riverbanks. Due to rain
earlier in the week, the water level had risen 6-8 feet since the
