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2009-05-16

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Echinoid (sea urchin) spine.

echinoid spine

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Top and bottom of an exogyra.

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Leisa found both halves of a large exogyra.

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Exogyra sitting on pedestals created by rain washing away the underlying and surrounding chalk.

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Here's the whole gang, ready for a day of collecting. We have to drive quite a ways through the woods.

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The long narrow fossil is part of a crab leg.

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In many areas, the ground is covered with large shells.

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Shark tooth and enchodus tooth.

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Small impression of an Inoceramus. These are normally quite large, flat shells, 2-3 foot across, and usually broken into millions of fragments.

Well, we didn't make it out of the site fast enough. The white chalk is like ice when it gets wet, so slick you can barely stand on it. These guys were slipping and sliding trying to push this car up a slight incline. We put branches and limbs under it to get traction.