This month 14 people showed up for the BPS trip and collected in Mississippian age fossils in St. Clair county,
Alabama. Along with the perfect brachopods and horned coral, quite a few trilobite parts were found in the Ft. Payne chert.
Photos courtesy Martha Ivey and Vicki Lais.
Most of the group.
Bob searching for fossils.
Mass of brachiopod shells.
Brachiopod impressions and what appear to be straight cephalopod impressions.
Brachiopod impressions.
Shell impressions and pieces of cora.
Katherine checking out the layers in the wall for fossils.
Molds of brachiopods and horned coral.
Gastropod impression.
Brachiopod impressions
Corals
Shell impression and part of a trilobite head.
A mass of brachiopods and what appear to be small straight cephalopods.
Several members collecting fossils on the hillside.
Probably part of an archimedes, a bryozoan.
Trilobite head
Trilobite head.
Trilobite head.
Trilobite eye.
Impression of trilobite fragment.
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