Back in 2017 I was talking to a friend about fossils. He mentioned that he encountered two construction sites in North Jefferson County recently that appeared like it may have fossils on site that I needed to check it out? Coincidently I had another friend who was interested in fossils that lived 5 minutes from that location, so I called him up and asked him about the site and his response was he knows of the site and drives by it on his way home from work.
I suggested he drop by when he had time to check it out. It's great we have technology enabling us to take pictures at an instant to send via the internet! My buddy stopped by the site and immediately found fossil plant pieces that he sent pictures of via cell phone. I told him that we needed to get there as soon as possible, so we planned it the next week. Well, the location he visited and sent pictures from didn't produce much, but he mentioned there was another site down the road and suggested we check out? We checked out the other site and the rest is history! The second site became our Honey Hole for the next several years! There were plant fossils everywhere including exquisite fern fossils that we couldn't believe before our eyes! So for years to come we hauled out a lot of fossils to date including a significant find for the State of Alabama which I have written about in a recent post. I'm posting pictures of the fossils that come out of the awesome site!
Pic #1- Calamites, Pic #2- Eusphenopteris, Pic #3- Nueropteris Leaf, Pic #4- Calamites, Pic #5- Eusphenopteris, Pic #6- Mariopteris, Pic #7- Spiropteris furled fern frond, Pic #8- Lycopodiates, Pic #9- Eusphenopteris fronds, Pic #10- Hash plate with Mariopteris, Fern Rachis, Lepidostrobus and Nueropteris leaf, Pic #11- Hash plate with Trigoncarpus, Lepidostrobus and Nueropteris fern fronds and leaves, Pic #12- Lepidostrobus
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