Cretaceous
April 1, 2006 - Cretaceous Fossils, Russell Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Tue, 04/04/2006 - 11:00pmOn a gray, overcast day that began with morning drizzle in Birmingham, and an unscheduled side trip to Georgia (don't ask), several BPS members participated in a paleontological salvage operation in Russell county, Alabama. When the sun came out full force later in the day, it made us appreciate the cloud cover!
August 20, 2005 - Eocene Fossils, Covington and Cretaceous Fossils, Montgomery Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Mon, 08/22/2005 - 11:00pmWhat a
hot, humid day this was! According to weather
reports, the temperature hit 97 where we were collecting, and there was
virtually no shade. The first site we visited in
Covington county was a real dud, for multiple reasons. We
knew
there would be a "constant steady discharge" due to some future plans
at the
June 25, 2005 - Cretaceous Fossils, Chilton Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 06/26/2005 - 11:00pmThis
month, BPS members and guests returned to a creek in Chilton
county that hasn't been visited by the group in about 6
years.
The weather was perfect, and the creek was ideal for cooling
off.
We obtained permission to enter the creek at a new location, and
everyone found numerous specimens of Cretaceous age petrified/
May 21, 2005 - Cretaceous Fossils, Montgomery Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Fri, 05/20/2005 - 11:00pmThis
month, BPS members headed to Montgomery county to collect in the
late Cretaceous. Another beautiful day for being in the
woods,
and playing in a creek. This year, the creek was down, way
down,
so moving from shore to shore was much easier than our last
trip.
A number of nice echinoids and ammonites were found, a variety of
March 19, 2005 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 03/20/2005 - 11:00pmBPS
members and guests met in the parking lot of the rest area for a
show and tell session prior to the fossil outing. Weather was
fine, but as we got closer to our site, the rain started.
After a
drizzly start, the weather cleared, and it ended up being a great
day. Surface collecting, or digging in one spot in the pea
October 23, 2004 - Cretaceous Fossils, Tuscaloosa and Hale Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Tue, 10/26/2004 - 11:00pmOctober
saw the troops
headed to Hale
county, AL to a favorite creek. After meeting at a rest area,
we
headed South to Tuscaloosa where we made a stop at the Museum of
Natural History on the University campus. Great fossil
collections as well as a fun exhibit of bugs and bats caught
everybody's interest. We were delighted to see that
the
April 17, 2004 - Cretaceous and Pleistocene Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 04/17/2004 - 11:00pm This creek site
in Greene
County,
AL is characterized by large quantities of pea gravel, filled with
numerous shark teeth, and the occasional mosasaur vertebra.
Going
east
along the creek one is in Pleistocene age material, while going west
moves
one through an area of Mooreville Chalk (Cretaceous).
A number of teeth from the Goblin shark and crow shark were found by all. (See the July, 2003 trip report for details on these sharks, and more on the geology of this site.)
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A number of teeth from the Goblin shark and crow shark were found by all. (See the July, 2003 trip report for details on these sharks, and more on the geology of this site.)
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July 26, 2003 - Cretaceous and Pleistocene Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Beerman on Thu, 07/24/2003 - 11:00pmWe had so much fun at this site back in May, we wanted to do it again, and search for more mosasaur bones. And we were in luck! 2 more large vertebra were found, and 2 pieces of jawbone, one with pieces of the tooth still there, however, we did not find where they were washing out, but we all had a great time scouting. This site in Greene County,
May 31, 2003 - Cretaceous Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 05/31/2003 - 11:00pmBPS visited a new Cretaceous location in Greene
County. First was a very interesting drive and hike through a
pasture
of high grass. Once we got to the creek, walking was easy,
and
numerous
shark teeth were found in the sand and gravel bars. The creek
was
very clean, and filled with pea gravel. We found that doing
surface
April 19, 2003 - Butler Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Fri, 04/18/2003 - 11:00pmBPS visited a new location in Butler County this month for our field trip. The creek was shallow, making screening and hiking in the creek particularly easy. A number of shark teeth were found, including Odontipus robusta, scapanorhynchus and odontaspis elegans, and bones and teeth that we really wanted to pass off as fossils. Unfortunately,
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