Point 'A' Dam
Early middle Eocene marine fossils
Conecuh River, AL

The Tallahatta Formation is of the early middle Eocene Age and exposed at low water level in the banks of the Conecuh River, just behind the Point "A" Dam site, northwest of the town of Andalusia, AL 

Fossils of Crocodile teeth, sharks teeth, snake vertebra, soft-shelled turtle material, ray dental plates and stingers, drum fish mouth plates, fish vertebra and fin-spines, and other vertebrate material.

 [Specimen Pictures from this locality]
[All photographs by Jim Flora]

Point "A" Dam site

Collecting site!
Notice the dark gray Tallahatta Formation exposure along the banks of the river.

Conecuh River

The most prolific fossil layer is found by digging down to the material in the top four inches above a hard claystone layer.

Filling your bucket(s) with the fossil dirt and taking this dirt down to the stream to screen.

Kim Cochran in his favorite fossil collecting position!

Charles and Lori Carter(L) looking for fossils while Teresa Curl(R) looks on.

Perry Curl exploring for fossils in the banks of the Conecuh River.

 
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