turtle shell
June 13-14, 2009 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 9:57pmThis month the group traveled to Butler County, Alabama, to a sandy creek which runs through early Tertiary and late Cretaceous material. The weather was overcast on Saturday, making collecting very pleasant. A number of members camped out for the weekend. Sunday the sun was out, and it made us grateful for the cloud cover on Saturday!
The sandy beaches and gravel areas yielded up shark teeth, ray teeth, some nautiloid sections, and recent mammal material which was sometimes as fasinating as the fossils.
08-08-16-vl-turtle-3090
Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 4:27pm
Part of a large turtle shell (toxochelid turtle plastral element).
March 19, 2005 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 03/20/2005 - 11:00pmBPS
members and guests met in the parking lot of the rest area for a
show and tell session prior to the fossil outing. Weather was
fine, but as we got closer to our site, the rain started.
After a
drizzly start, the weather cleared, and it ended up being a great
day. Surface collecting, or digging in one spot in the pea
