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June 19, 2010 - Eocene Fossils, Covington Co, AL

This month the group went to a shallow river in Covington Co, AL we haven't visited for a long time.  Our memory of this site is that the pickings were better in years past.  It took a while to find fossils.  We don't dig, as the landowner has requested "no digging", but most of our honey holes were empty, possibly from the recent rainy seasons or over-collecting by commercial coll

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Handful of shark and ray teeth.

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Shark and ray teeth.

April 17, 2010 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL

Our annual trip to Butler County turned up several shark teeth, fish vertebra, ray teeth, turritella in cochina, and a number of pottery pieces.  The day was spent roaming the creek, playing in the sand and creek, or just hanging out sunbathing.  Several members camped out for the weekend on the bald, where more fossils were found.

 

June 13-14, 2009 - Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils, Butler Co, AL

This month the group traveled to Butler County, Alabama, to a sandy creek which runs through early Tertiary and late Cretaceous material.  The weather was overcast on Saturday, making collecting very pleasant.  A number of members camped out for the weekend.  Sunday the sun was out, and it made us grateful for the cloud cover on Saturday!

The sandy beaches and gravel areas yielded up shark teeth, ray teeth, some nautiloid sections, and recent mammal material which was sometimes as fasinating as the fossils. 

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Butler county BPS fossil field trip

Various items found, including cochina, shark teeth, ray teeth, pottery, echinoid

June 23, 2007 - Eocene Fossils, Covington Co, AL

The weather was unbearably hot for this June BPS trip to a river in Covington County. Maybe it was the heat, but we had a smaller than normal turnout. The water at this Eocene age site was extremely low, and our usual collecting-holes were sometimes totally flushed clean, and sometimes filled with silt. Very odd. However, we still

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