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July 11, 2009 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL

Submitted by admin2 on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 2:17pm

Alabama›Greene

Cretaceous

BPS members and guests headed down to Greene county, Alabama for our July trip. This site is a creek covered with pea gravel - making screening for shark teeth and other fossils quite difficult. However, most found it fairly easy to spot the fossils lying on top of the gravel. Numerous shark teeth were found, a couple of mosasaur teeth, several ptychodus teeth, a gar vertebra and tooth, c

November 1-2, 2008 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils - Butler County

Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 6:34pm

If you wanted a day/weekend out in the woods, you couldn't have custom-ordered more perfect weather or a more perfect spot to enjoy the outdoors. A small group of BPS’ers set out for Butler County to a site owned by a member’s relatives. They kindly let us in there at least once a year and a big THANK YOU goes out to them from BPS. We use the word “intrepid” a lot to describ

April 26, 2008 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL

Submitted by Leisa Whitlow on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 10:58pm

The April 2008 field trip brought beautiful weather and a nice relaxing weekend. Claire, Martha and Leisa were able to get to the site on Friday and enjoyed an evening gazing up at the stars and listening to the night birds. Saturday morning brought the arrival of the rest of the field trip party. Members ventured up stream and down stream. Several shark teeth and ray teeth were found, along with cochina stone embedded with turritella, gastropods, and nautiloids. A few Native American pottery shards were also found.