Alabama
September 29, 2001 - Covington Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 09/29/2001 - 11:00pmAugust 25, 2001 - Colbert Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 08/25/2001 - 11:00pmBPS members took a long road trip to roadcuts in Colbert County on August 25, where everyone found a good selection of blastoids, brachiopods, trilobites, and other Mississippian age fossils at two separate collecting sites.
Afterwards, we relaxed and cooled off in a creek on some propery owned by one of our members.
July 21, 2001 - Clarke and Washington Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 07/22/2001 - 11:00pmBPS members went to a Clarke County site where whale fossils have been found in the past, but none were found on this day. We also collected at a privately owned quarry in Washington County, Alabama, where numerous echinoids, sand dollars, and foraminifera were found.
Forams with a sand dollar showing in the matrix.
Numerous sand dollars were found in this quarry.
Summer, 2001 - Jefferson Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 06/24/2001 - 11:00pmSeveral times during the summer, members collected in north Jefferson county, in an area being cleared for a shopping center.
June 09, 2001 - Lowndes Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 06/10/2001 - 11:00pmOn June 9-10, BPS members spent the weekend in Loundes County, Alabama, where they found Cretaceous fossils. Numerous fossilized crabs and shark teeth
were collected on this field trip. The crab nodules and exogyra below are from a resident near
the site, who helped us gain permission to collect on the property.
Spring, 2001 - Walker Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Fri, 06/01/2001 - 11:00pmBPS took several trips to an abandoned strip mine, where numerous nodules containing fern spore pods were found. This was on a trip with a visiting paleontologist.
May 26, 2001 - Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 05/26/2001 - 11:00pmMay 12, 2001 - Track Meet 3 and PlantFest, Anniston, Alabama
Submitted by admin2 on Sat, 05/19/2001 - 11:00pmTrack Meet III and the concurrent PlantFest was held on May 12, at the Anniston Museum of Natural History. We spent the day documenting especially fine, well-preserved, interesting plant fossil specimens and previously unphotographed tracks collected at the Union Chapel Mine. We were fortunate enough to have 2 visiting paleobotanists at this Meet. Thanks to all of the organizers and parti
April 29, 2001 - Montgomery Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 04/29/2001 - 11:00pmBPS members visited two late Cretaceous sites in Montgomery County, Alabama, where we collected primarily shark teeth and echinoids. A pycnodont tooth (rare in Alabama) was found by Vicki Lais.
March 31, 2001 - Bibb Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Fri, 03/30/2001 - 11:00pmPages
