October 22-23, 2011 - Eocene Fossils - Clarke, Rankin, Madison, & Hinds Counties, MS

BPS members took a long weekend and on Saturday the group collected in 3 Eocene sites in Mississippi, finding echinoids, sand dollars, coral, worm tubes, crabs, oyster, gastropods, fish vertebra, and one shark vertebra.  Then on Sunday the group visited a couple of tourist locations - the Mississippi Petrified Forest in Flora, MS, and the Mississippi Museum of Natural History in Jackson, MS.

 

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Stop 1 - Chickasawhay River in Clarke County, MS

Stop 2 - Roadcut in Clarke County, MS

Stop 3 - Construction site in Rankin County, MS

Stop 4 - Mississippi Petrified Forest - Flora, Madison Co, MS

Stop 5 - Mississippi Museum of Natural History - Jackson, Hinds Co, MS