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.
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Nice trilobite pygidium and head
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Trilobite pygidium
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Part of a trilobite head, with good detail in the eye.
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Trilobite pygidium
Vicki observing Bill's technique as he extracts some trilobites.
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Don't know what this is, but it looks interesting.
Searching for crinoids in the quarry wall.
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Shell impression.
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Crinoid impressions.
Quarry we visited at end of day.
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