If you're looking for Alabama fossils, this is the place to come!
Exciting field trips, educational programs on paleontology and geology, and interesting people to meet! No prior knowledge required, just a desire to learn and a love of fossils and the outdoors. Professionals and novices of all ages are welcome.
Three sites were visited in northern Mississippi. Site 1 featured the Prairie Bluff and Chiwapa Sandstone (Ripley) formations. Echinoids and decapods were found in the Chiwapa Sandstone in Pontotoc county.
Alabama has gotten a lot of rain lately, with that said... Saturday turned out to be a good day to fossil hunt!
Our speaker for May is TBA
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Fitzgerald Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
Our speaker for March is Chase Egli, a Geology grad student currently working on his masters. Chase is well known for his expertise in sharks.
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Fitzgerald Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
BPS members visited a new Pennsylvanian site in Jefferson County, where mostly coal age plant fossils were found, including stigmaria, lepidodendron, and some other bark patterns. The weather was absolutely perfect; we couldn'
Our speaker for March is Dr. Christina Robins, a geoscientist at UA, and the world expert on fossil squat lobsters. Her program will be: "Crossroads of Land and Sea: Fieldwork Stories and Fossil Finds from the Panama Canal Expansion Project"
The program begins at 7:00, followed by the business meeting at 8:00 pm. Hoover Public Library, downstairs, Fitzgerald Conference Room. Free and open to the public.
