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Scout trip to North Sulphur River and Drone Footage


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I'm a cubmaster for Cub Scouts and a couple of weeks ago, I took my scouts to the North Sulphur River for a fossil experience. We got there and I pulled out some examples of what they could expect to find. Just in case, I gave each scout a bag with a couple of shark teeth, a Baculite, a couple of Annelid Worms, and some Exogyra fragments. That way, just in case they didn't do as well, they could at least go away with something.

Had a ball and they all sent pics of some of their finds. I'll add more as they come in (and I'll get around to photographing mine). All in all, though, we found a nice pathologic mosasaur tooth, some Scapanorynchus Texanus teeth, a nice Mosasaur vertebra, loads of fragmented Baculites and lots and lots of "Pretty rocks". Everyone had a ball and of course, the boys turned the trip into a swim party in the shallow water before we left.

Here's a link to a drone video from one of my parents. He got some great shots of the river. I'll load pics in additional replies over the next few days below.

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=!AkQWRft-a54Yalk&cid=906835256FAF2BD3&id=906835256FAF2BD3!31321&parId=906835256FAF2BD3!31186&o=OneUp

Talk to you soon,

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This area dropped off in front of our group. I pulled them off as things were still falling and sure enough, within an hour, it was completely covered by Pleistocene fill from above.

Mitchell

Don't Sit Still - - You'll Fossilize! :P

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Great report, awesome video. But where's the pics of your finds?

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Sorry, had to get the images into the gallery to pull them over. Here are some pics as submitted by scouts.

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Mitchell

Don't Sit Still - - You'll Fossilize! :P

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Good adventure for the scouts, hope it becomes a great interest, fossil hunting that is, and excellent finds among you too.

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Nice report and finds. :)

Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Awespme! Love to see kids today doing this stuff, love the drone footage, Im thinking of getting one for scouting sites, thanks for sharing!

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Greta trip and kudos to you for taking the time with these boys. This is something they will never forget.

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