Cretaceous
October 23, 2004 - Cretaceous Fossils, Tuscaloosa and Hale Co, AL
Submitted by Nancy Kenfield Lea on Tue, 10/26/2004 - 11:00pmApril 17, 2004 - Cretaceous and Pleistocene Fossils, Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 04/17/2004 - 11:00pmA 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 - 11:00pmApril 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,
June 09, 2001 - Lowndes Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 06/10/2001 - 11:00pmOn 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. The crab nodules and exogyra below are from a resident near
the site, who helped us gain permission to collect on the property.
May 26, 2001 - Greene Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 05/26/2001 - 11:00pmNovember 26, 2000 - Cretaceous Fossils - Macon Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Buta on Sun, 11/26/2000 - 11:00pmThe publication of Jim Lacefield's new book, "Lost Worlds in Alabama Rocks: A Guide to the State's Ancient Life and Landscapes" led the BPS to this new site for a field trip this month. In previous BPS field trip reports, I have noted the abundant plant fossils that we have found at various surface mines in Walker and Jefferson Counties. These sites include plants from the Coal Age in Alabama, dating back to about 310 million years. It was interesting, therefore, to learn from Jim's book that it was possible to find plant fossils in Alabama from a much later period, the Cretaceous period.
July 1, 2000 - Cretaceous Fossils, Sumter Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Buta on Tue, 09/26/2000 - 11:00pmThis report (installed on Sept. 27) is late because of the month-long trip to South Africa that I took from mid-July to mid-August. As a result, I can only roughly describe what the BPS did this day. There were three sites in Sumter County that were visited, all well-known and previously visited by the BPS.
February 21, 1999 - Sumter & Marengo Co, AL
Submitted by Ron Buta on Sun, 02/21/1999 - 11:00pmRichard Thurn of the University of West Alabama led the group of 18 members on an excellent day-long field trip to several sites in Sumter and Marengo counties. He started the day inside with a showing and explanation of the various fossils in the display cases at the science building on the campus of the University. The next
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