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Haley Hudson posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 1 month ago
3 years, 1 month ago3 years, 1 month agoHaley Hudson has contributed specimen mFeM 96938 to myFOSSIL!
Haley Hudson posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 1 month ago
Haley Hudson has contributed specimen mFeM 96938 to myFOSSIL!
@matthew-gramling perhaps you could provide some insight?
triops?
Greetings @haley-hudson ! I don’t believe this is a triops or a fossil. It looks more like sedimentary or quartz gravel from an alluvial deposit.
Also, for reference…Lucedale sits on the Citronelle Formation. And straight east on 26 you end up in the Pascagoula and Hattiesburg Formation
The latter two are Miocene, so post dinosaurs, and fossiliferous. They contain mainly marine fossils and sediments.
thank you for your response 🙂
The Citronelle is Pliocene to Pleistocene in age and mostly sandy and argillaceous sediments.
Most welcome! Glad to be of service. A good way to do some collecting in potential fossiliferous locale would be to look for road cuts along 26 where the strata is exposed. Make sure it’s on a roadway that not government land like the Pascagoula reserve and you should be safe from legal concerns in collecting.
Also, try to park safely from the road. Also invest in a hammer and smallish rock chisel.
I might as well give a starter pack list for collecting: And old hiking backpack, rock pick, work gloves, paper towel roll, aluminum foil, quart and gallon ziploc bags, canteen or water bottle, rock chisel, bug spray and sunscreen for spring and summer, probably a cooler to be kept in the car with premade meals depending on how long you plan to collect.
swiss army knife or similar tool could be helpful too.
I truly appreciate your help and tips. I find them very helpful. I will certainly visit some of these places in the near future. although ,I wonder..what is the aluminum foil for? lol