After a couple of hours back at camp eating, resting, and drying off, we headed out for a late afternoon collecting trip in a nearby gully.
Echinoid or crab fragment, fish vertebra, Hamulus worm tube.
Screening for shark teeth.
Clidastes mosasaur vertebra.
Shark teeth - Cretolamna in upper left, Scapanorhynchus in lower left, ptychodus tooth in middle, turritella gastropod, and belemnite found in the creek.
Shark vertebra scattered on the sides of a gully. The red flags mark the highest spot a bone has been found.
Shark vertebra
Becky watches as James records the site and finds of the day in his logbook.
Mosasaur vertebra (fish vertebra in middle).
An awning was set up over the shark vertebra excavation to provide relief from the relentless glare of the sun.