Cretaceous Crawl

Since I moved down from NJ, I’ve been itching to get out and explore some of the great fossil locales North Carolina has to offer, other than Greensmill Run. My early December trip to a Cretaceous land site was promising but having my four year old son with me didn’t allow for much time collecting. Between Christmas and New Years, the opportunity presented itself to make a return visit, this time without the young’uns. Not being very familiar with the area, I spent most of the first hour walking around trying to determine where the most fossiliferous areas were. I came across a small area where a large shell layer was exposed and set up shop. I brought along a screen but trying to get the material through it was quite a task. I ended up spending most of my time utilizing the Pungo crawl, which ended up working pretty well since the area had received quite a bit of recent rain. Most of the finds were partial and/or beat up but I did manage a couple of decent finds.