BPS members went to a Clarke County site where whale fossils have been found in the past, but none were found on this day.

Several times during the summer, members collected in north Jefferson county, in an area being cleared for a shopping center.

This month BPS members took a long weekend, from June 15-17, driving to several quarries near Wilmington, North Carolina where Ashley had made arrangements to collect.

On June 9-10, BPS members spent the weekend in Loundes County, Alabama, where they found Cretaceous fossils. Numerous fossilized crabs and shark teeth were collected on this field trip.

BPS took several trips to an abandoned strip mine, where numerous nodules containing fern spore pods were found.  This was on a trip with a visiting paleontologist.

BPS members collected in a Greene County, Alabama creek. At this Cretaceous site, we found numerous shark and ray teeth and some fish vertebrae.

Track Meet III and the concurrent PlantFest was held on May 12, at the Anniston Museum of Natural History.  We spent the day documenting especially fine, well-preserved, interesting plant fossil specimens and previously unphotographed tracks collected at the Union Chapel Mine.  We were fortunate enough to have 2 visiting paleobotanists at this Meet.  Thanks to all of the organizers and parti

BPS members visited two late Cretaceous sites in Montgomery County, Alabama, where we collected primarily shark teeth and echinoids.  A pycnodont tooth (rare in Alabama) was found by Vicki Lais. 

BPS members collected at a Bibb county quarry and nearby graptolite site this month.

ANCIENT ALABAMA ANIMAL TRACKS INSPIRE AMATEUR FOSSIL COLLECTORS

TO DOCUMENT FINDS