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.
Katherine checking out the layers in the wall for fossils.
Molds of brachiopods and horned coral.
Gastropod impression.
Brachiopod impressions
Mass of brachiopod shells.
Brachiopod impressions and what appear to be straight cephalopod impressions.
Brachiopod impressions.
Shell impressions and pieces of cora.
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.
Corals
Nice trilobite pygidium and head
Trilobite pygidium
Part of a trilobite head, with good detail in the eye.
Trilobite pygidium
Trilobite head
Trilobite head.
Trilobite head.
Trilobite eye.
Impression of trilobite fragment.
Vicki observing Bill's technique as he extracts some trilobites.
Don't know what this is, but it looks interesting.
Shell impression.
Crinoid impressions.
Quarry we visited at end of day.
Searching for crinoids in the quarry wall.