Rockin' Ric Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Hello ya'll! Went on a fossil hunt trip last week with the APS group to a local area in central Alabama. Here are a few things I found... pretty excited to add these marine fossils to my collection! Some cleaned Echinoids and in situ Goblin shark tooth where I found it and pic of the two first shark teeth found ever! Present fish skeleton found on site, to bad it wasn't a fossilized one 7 WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sseth Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Great finds! _____________________________________ Seth www.fossilshack.com www.americanfossil.com www.fishdig.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplomado Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Cool! Can you tell me where you went? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Great finds, Ric!! Glad to see you expanding your fossil horizons. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Beautiful finds, I have never seen echinoids like these, where is there mouth located? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Very nice. Are the echinoids Hardouinia? Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Those echinoids are sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) Skeleton.jpg Present fish skeleton found on site, to bad it wasn't a fossilized one Cover it up and give it a few million years. Edited June 21, 2016 by caldigger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBOB Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I'd be excited about those finds too! Good job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 nice finds "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I bet I know where you went! I think the echinoids are Hardouinia bassleri. Don 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I bet I know where you went! I think the echinoids are Hardouinia bassleri. Don The Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation continues giving. 2 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonboro37 Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Great trip and finds!Thanks for sharing. Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNCollector Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Nice goblin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Pretty rich site there... Any idea what stage of the Cret. that is, anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Late Santonian-Early Campanian (Dicarinella concavata Interval zone*) *foraminiferal zone Brotzen,holotype: Edited June 27, 2016 by doushantuo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Ric Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Pretty rich site there... Any idea what stage of the Cret. that is, anybody? Wrangellian, I think these fossils came from the Late Cretaceous period? I hope that is what u are asking... WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Ric Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Thanks everyone for the kind comments! Looking forward to adding other fossils to my collection soon. WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) Wrangellian, I think these fossils came from the Late Cretaceous period? I hope that is what u are asking... That narrows it down, but looks like doushantuo narrowed it down even further (Thanks, both) If it's Late Sant., it's pretty much exactly coeval with my local stuff! Edited June 27, 2016 by Wrangellian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 That narrows it down, but looks like doushantuo narrowed it down even further (Thanks, both) If it's Late Sant., it's pretty much exactly coeval with my local stuff! Doushantuo is correct. The Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation lies within the Exogyra ponderosa zone which has been traditionally been placed within the Lower Campanian however most recent planktonic work places it within the Upper Santonian with the rest of the Eutaw Formation. 3 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 If i remember correctly,there's also a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Alabama Cretaceous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLT Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I’ve been browsing through your older posts to get a better idea of which fossils are found in the area. Along with crinoids, I’m hoping to find lots of echinoids once I start fossil hunting in Alabama. There’s something about them which I really like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALABAMAHEADHUNTER Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 I do some fossil collecting here in Alabama , from nearly all of the state . Where and when does the APS meet ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 On 6/23/2016 at 6:36 AM, MikeR said: The Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation continues giving. Hi Mike R., I have seen a lot of shark teeth from the Tombigbee Sand in Mississippi. It was collected in the 60's and I haven't heard of people collecting there since so I wonder if it's restricted/outlawed somehow now. Sometimes, sites are merely forgotten over time. Jess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 2 hours ago, siteseer said: Hi Mike R., I have seen a lot of shark teeth from the Tombigbee Sand in Mississippi. It was collected in the 60's and I haven't heard of people collecting there since so I wonder if it's restricted/outlawed somehow now. Sometimes, sites are merely forgotten over time. Jess Hi Jess Do you know what county? I have collected much more in Alabama and the site referenced above is a well known and easily accessible site. One of the best Santonian sites in this part of the country was Plymouth Bluff on the Tombigbee River in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Sometime during the 60s or 70s, the Army Corp of Engineers straightened the Tombigbee to form the TomTom Waterway for barge traffic. The result was to isolate the river bend where Plymouth Bluff resided and in effect prevent the yearly flooding which kept the bluff clear of vegetation. Mike "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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