The January field trip was held on February 2, 2003. BPS members collected in the Selma Chalk formation in Lowndes county Mississippi.. We visited several new sites where the group has never collected.
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This months trip was to a graptolite site in Bibb County, Alabama. This is the Athens Shale formation (Ordovician age).
BPS members visited the quarry at the Ruffner Mountain Nature Center. It includes a limestone quarry containing Mississippian and Ordovician-era fossils. A number of good "teaching opportunities" were identified.
We visited two late Cretaceous sites in Montgomery County, Alabama, where we collected primarily shark teeth and echinoids.
This month, BPS members collected at a Walker County strip mine.
This month, BPS members were given a private tour of Cathedral Caverns, located in North Alabama near Gant.
Press Release
WORLD-CLASS FOSSIL DISCOVERY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA
Again this year, a number of BPS members visited several mines near Wilmington, North Carolina, the beach, and a shell pit a number of miles inland. We spent extra days there, from June 13 - 16.
BPS members spent the weekend of May 24-26 on a camping trip to a Lowndes County, Alabama, hunting club, to collect in creeks and gullies. We found crabs in nodules, ammonites, turritella, and had a great time!
