Montgomery

July 26, 2025 - Cretaceous - Montgomery Co, AL

August 10, 2024 - Cretaceous - Montgomery County, Alabama

You couldn't ask for a beautiful day to fossil hunt with BPS on a creek hunting for fossils. It was hot, but the overhanging trees provided a cool shade and the water at just the right temperature to enjoy the beauty surrounding us! BPS August field trip was on a creek, hunting for Cretaceous and Pliestocene fossils as well as native artifacts consisting of arrowheads and pottery. A great time had by all the members!

Fossils: shark teeth

Goblin Shark teeth.

Finally finished the micro material brought back from the BPS field trip creek excursion 2 weeks ago. This creek produces a heavy concentration of Enchodus fish teeth, and palatine jaw pieces of any creek I've visited! In the picture, you will see anterior and posterior Enchodus teeth, Pseudocorax, Scapanorynchus (Goblin shark), Gastropod steinkern, Fish Vert, six-sided quartz crystal that has been creek worn, and Urchin Spines... I'm astonished that these spines as delicate as they are survived into fossilization, buried in matrix for eons and tossed around in that creek! Cretaceous Period, Demopolis Chalk, Southeastern USA.

3 Mosasaur teeth.

Broken teeth finds.

Enchodus teeth and Palatine jaw pieces, even one of them had the fang intact!

2 Cretolamna and 1 Squalicorax tooth.

Bones and Gastropod steinkern.

July 13, 2024 - Cretaceous - Montgomery County, AL

BPS members got to visit a creek that is regularly on our list each year. The times we've visited the water levels were usually too high to traverse. Fortunately this time it was low enough to collect Cretaceous marine fossils by the BPS members. Not many brave souls showed up for this because it was either too hot, typical Alabama summer day or had other plans. Great finds were discovered today by several members. It's a great creek to go to with a variety of fossils to be found and look forward to going to it every year!