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Collecting from the Blue Springs, MS. Coon Creek Member, Ripley Formation
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A little over a week ago I flew to Memphis and then drove down to Tupelo, Mississippi to spend two days collecting at the nearby Blue Springs fossil site, Upper Cretaceous, Ripley Formation, Coon Creek Member. It was my fourth trip there in the past two years. Weather was decent- 65 degrees the first day, 55 the second., a mix of sun and clouds both days. The site was very mucky the first day there, but it dried up for the most part by the second. The first time I visited there, the surface collecting was excellent. Not so much the last three times and this time was exceptionally poor. So, as you can see from the photo, I did a lot of digging. The softer material near the top did have fossils, but normally they crumpled as soon as they were exposed. One particular small nautiloid that was original shell material and mostly gold color was especially heart breaking. As I dug deeper, more intact fossils appeared in the now tougher marl, mostly mollusks with at least some shell material though much of it came off when the rock split.- 30 replies
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Herb send me some grams of sediment from Campanian to Maastrichtian Blue Springs, Union County MS with a rich content of foraminifera. Thanks a lot Herb. It is a great pleasure to work with your material: Heterohelix Fissurina Pseudouvigerina Gaudryina find more http://www.foraminifera.eu/herb.html As I received different samples from the Upper Cretaceous of the USA I installed a clickable map with altogether 103 images so far. see http://www.foraminif...upcretgulf.html Upper Cret. samples are welcome to enlarge these section. A more or less exact locality and the formation they are from should be known. Send a PM, if you want to share a sample. The foraminifera.eu project is non-commercial driven by naturalist enthusiasm. Thus we share our findings for free and hope to help and find others, who are fascinated too by the beauty of formanifera and the story the tell about Earth Nature. Michael
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