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

BPS members collected in the Bangor Limestone in Franklin County, Alabama, and made several stops at roadcuts
in the area. Specimens from this site date to the late Mississipian

BPS members collected in Cherokee County, Alabama. This site is the Conasauga Formation of the Cambrian, and numerous trilobites were found.

by Ron Buta, Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama