Our field trip in March took us to southern Mississippi to a lime quarry comprised of marine rocks from the Oligocene. We had just a beautiful day with highs reaching into the low 60s, a breeze and bright sunshine. A fossil hunter could ask for nothing better! This site has a huge diversity of fossils including bivalves (especially abundant scallops), gastropods, scaphopods, bryozoans, crustaceans, echinoids, fish (teeth, bones, and otoliths), cartilaginous fish (shark and

On March 7, 2026 the APS made the day trip to Jackson, Mississippi for the 23rd annual Fossil Roadshow at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. We had a great contingent that made the trip to enjoy engaging with the public, attending the guest lecture, seeing the other groups display, and visiting the museum exhibits. It is aways a great event! We had three tables loaded with fossils primarily found in Alabama as well as some of our outreach material. While the museum

We tend to always visit the Mississippian-aged rocks of North Alabama during the winter months, this year was no different. What was different is that we visited in December and in February! We visited multiple locations on each trip. The diversity of marine fossils from these locations always makes for a little something for everyone. The wintertime makes for quiet fossil collecting as well - what a joy! Here is just a sampling of the fossils from the various locales: Bra

After spending October wading in a creek of South Alabama looking for Eocene shark teeth, we used our November field trip at one of our favorite sites where the chalk gullies are created through the Mooreville Chalk representing marine deposits of the late Cretaceous (early Campanian ~82 million years ago). The APS trips to this site always seem to result in some incredible finds worthy of ascension into the University of Alabama Museum Collections. This day was no different