trilobite
January 14, 2006 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Thu, 01/19/2006 - 11:00pmFebruary 5, 2005 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 02/06/2005 - 11:00pmThis year we decided on a boat trip to a new, uncollected area of the lake, where everyone found a plentiful supply of trilobites. The water level was up higher than expected, due to the recent rain, but
January 24, 2004 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Greg Mestler on Fri, 01/23/2004 - 11:00pmOur first stop was at a new site exposing nodules from the shale of the Conasauga Fm, Dresbachian stage, late Cambrian approx. 515 million years old. Here we found over 20 "Brooksella" which are believed to be the internal mold of a "primitive jellyfish". The most that anyone can remember finding on any trip were 3, so everyone got at least one specimen.
January 12, 2002 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 01/12/2002 - 11:00pmWe collected in Cherokee County, Alabama, in the pebbles and shaley outcrops around a lake, which was low for the winter, exposing a wide shoreline. An outcrop of the Middle Cambrian Conasauga Shale of the Coosa Valley is at this site, and numerous trilobites were found. A number of members went scouting for new sites in the area.
August 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.
January 20, 2001 - Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 01/20/2001 - 11:00pmBPS members collected in Cherokee County, Alabama. This site is the Conasauga Formation of the Cambrian, and numerous trilobites were found.
NOTE: We lost server access due to the illness of the administrator of our host server. It was over a year before he was back at work, and no field trip reports were created during that time period. These brief memos are simply place-holders for the trip. Periodically, old photos do turn up and get scanned in.
November 20, 1999 - Bibb Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Buta on Sun, 11/21/1999 - 11:00pm|
This Saturday field trip was the first visit even by veteran BPS members to a quarry located in north Bibb County. The rocks from this quarry have been used as rip-rap at several highway locations, the best ones I know of being on a ramp at Exit 79 and between Exits 77 and 79 on |
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