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.

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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!

Once again, BPS members visited a coal mine in Walker County, Alabama, where many varieties of plant fossils were found.

BPS members visited a private museum owned by one of our newest members - wonderful specimens, as he has worked around mines most of his life. Then we went to Taft Coal mine in Walker County, Alabama for collecting.