bryozoans

April 11, 2009 - Mississippian Fossils, Morgan Co, AL, Part 2

Part 1 - Trip Report
Part 2 - Trip Photos (this page)

This Mississippian limestone quarry yielded a variety of fossils, including crinoids, blastoids, a very ancient shark tooth by the name Petalodus, archimedes, bryozoans, brachiopods, Rugosa and other corals, and even part of a trilobite.

(Photos courtesy Ron Beerman, Becky Guthrie, and Vicki Lais)

Lea with cake for everyone

Lea has brought a cake for the whole group, and dinosaur eggs in honor of Easter, which is the next day.

shark tooth, Petalodus
quarry
blastoid hidden in gravel
blastoid

Some fossils are very hard to spot. There is a blastoid lying in this gravel wash.

brachiopod
Petalodus shark tooth
shark tooth, Petalodus

Petalodus shark tooth

Slab of limestone totally filled with crinoid stems.
crinoid

Slab of limestone totally filled with crinoid stems.

Limestone slab
eating cake

Everyone enjoying the cake brought by Lea.

coral on boulder
coral

Large horned coral on a huge boulder.

Calcite crystal
stem parts
crinoid and blastoid
crinoid, blastoid

Part of a crinoid head, a couple of blastoids, and some crinoid stems.

chipping out a shark tooth

James Lamb spent close to two hours carefully chipping out a Petalodus shark tooth found by Becky.

coral
bryozoan fan

Beautiful bryozoan fan

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