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Gastropod impression.
Paleozoic
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Crinoid impressions.
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Vicki observing Bill's technique as he extracts some trilobites.
November 17, 2007 - Mississippian Fossils, St. Clair Co, AL
This month 14 people showed up for the BPS trip and collected in Mississippian age fossils in St. Clair county,
Alabama. Along with the perfect brachopods and horned coral, quite a few trilobite parts were found in the Ft. Payne chert.
Photos courtesy Martha Ivey and Vicki Lais.
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Interesting marks like these sometimes cover entire boulders in the area, probably attachment marks made by a snail-like creature. Probably recent, but in several million years they will be considered fossils.
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Shoreline at stop number two where a few of us scouted for fossils, water is well below winter levels.
