BPS members took a long weekend and on Saturday the group collected in 3 Eocene sites in Mississippi, finding echinoids, sand dollars, coral, worm tubes, crabs, oyster, gastropods, fish vertebra, and one shark vertebra. Then on Sunday the group visited a couple of tourist locations - the Mississippi Petrified Forest in Flora, MS, and the Mississippi Museum of Natural History in Jackson, MS.
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Stop 1 - Chickasawhay River in Clarke County, MS
Stop 2 - Roadcut in Clarke County, MS
Stop 3 - Construction site in Rankin County, MS
Stop 4 - Mississippi Petrified Forest - Flora, Madison Co, MS
Stop 5 - Mississippi Museum of Natural History - Jackson, Hinds Co, MS