Day 1 Friday Day 2 Saturday Day 3 Sunday
A
weekend trip to the Cretaceous chalk gullies of Dallas County Alabama and a
creek in Perry county turned up numerous fossils. Ancient creatures,
including shark, turtle, mosasaur, ptychodus, fish, clam, and ammonite
were found during the three day weekend trip.
DAY 3 - SUNDAY
After a good night's sleep, we headed off to a set of larger
gullies early Sunday morning. A lot of fish bones, shark vertebra,
shark teeth, enchodus jaw/tooth, nice piece of turtle shell, and even
crocodile bones were found. As usual, we stayed in the gullies until
darkness made it impossible to collect any more.
(photos courtesy Claire Smith and Vicki Lais)
Cretoxyrhina mantelli shark tooth (ginsu - ecologically similar to the great white shark).
As the sun gets low in the sky, we're still going around to the marked items, surface collecting or excavating as needed, trying to finish before dark.