JANUS The Newsletterof theNorth CarolinaFossil Clubwww.ncfossilclub.org

2004 Number 1

2004 Spring CalendarMarch21 NCFC Meeting - NCMNS, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh.

1:30 pm, Level A conference room. Patricia G. Weaver, Collection Manager, Paleontology and Geology, NCMNS. Topic: Widely overlooked Eocene fossils..

25 Castle Hayne - Contact John Everette at: 919-847-4485 or ncjde@aol.com.

27 PCS #1 - See below.

April3 PCS #2 - See below.

15-18 Mazon Creek - Contact Jeff Cohn or Fred and Adrienne Hahn. See page 3 below for details.

29 Rocky Point - Contact John Everette 919-847-4485 or ncjde@aol.com.

May2 Green’s Mill Run - Contact John Steffenson 252-756-0386

(jjlld@aol.com). We will meet at Elm Street Park but also work other areas downstream.

16 NCFC Meeting - NCMNS, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh. 1:30 pm, Level A conference room. Speaker TBA.

29 Aurora Fossil Festival - See Cindy Muston’s President’s Column below.

The PCS call in date will be Thursday, March 11th at 7:00 PM. Please call Cindy at 910-353-8897. You must speak with her to confirm your slot. No emails or telephone messages will be accepted. There are approximately 5 slots for March 27th and approximately 15 slots for April 3rd. There will also be 5 alternate people chosen in the event of cancellations.

General Rules:Trips, except Rocky Point and Castle Hayne, generally

begin at 9AM at the site. Always contact the leader in advance of attending any trip. In advance of any new or out of state trips, always maintain close contact with the leader for special instructions and last minute changes. Be certain that accurate phone and /or email addresses are given to the leader and updated as needed. Some trips may be limited in size at the option of the leader. Always arrive early. Be sure to fully understand the rules and instructions. Safety is our main concern. NEVER do anything which might endanger you or other collectors. Children, where permitted, must always be under your direct control and supervision.

Safety rule violations are a sure way to lose all fossil-collecting privileges at any site.

Trip Information

Castle Hayne & Rocky Point-

When to be there: Both trips begin at 11:15 am on their scheduled dates. It is

to your advantage to try to arrive 15-20 minutes early. This will allow you the chance to mingle and quiz some of the more seasoned collectors about the trip, (where to go, what to look for, special pointers, etc.). For directions see map in this Janus.

What to Bring:Hardhat (required and NOT supplied by the quarry)

Sturdy boots/hiking boots- The terrain at these sites is rugged and can be somewhat dangerous and challenging for persons not used to climbing or physical exertion.

Walking stick/potato rake.

Water, light snack and, of course, your fossil collecting materials.

Precautions: As you are aware, fossil collecting is a privilege bestowed upon

us by the very kind and thoughtful management at Castle Hayne and Rocky Point. Please show your gratitude by following all rules and guidelines your guide (John Everette) will explain to you. It only takes one incident to end our opportunity, so please, have fun, but think and be safe.

Green’s Mill Run (GMR)

When to be there: This trip normally begins promptly at 9:00 am. Collectors should try to be at the Elm Street Park parking lot between 8:30 and 8:45AM to allow the leader to advise collectors of the GMR guidelines and address any questions. For directions, see map.

What to bring:Chest waders/hip waders/rubber boots (suggested, but not

required), Floatable screen, Long handled shovel, Insect repellant, Drinking water, light snack

Precautions:Green’s Mill Run involves wading in and digging gravel from

the creek bottom. There is the likelihood of pollution. Due to various debris that is found (i.e., broken glass, metal fragments, sharp objects, etc.), this site is not appropriate for young children.

President’s ColumnI hope everyone is doing well, ready for the cold weather to leave us, and anxiously anticipating the kick off of the spring collecting season. First of all, I would like to inform everyone that we are attempting to take a different approach for our meetings. I am

trying to implement some hands-on/interactive activities that we all can take part in. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for activities they would like to have at our meetings, please do not hesitate to contact me at fossilgal@hotmail.com. With that note, our July meeting will be held at the Aurora Fossil Museum. During this time, we will also be having a picnic. As the date nears, more information will be supplied. Now just to back track a bit, during the March meeting, the sign up sheet for displaying at The Aurora Fossil Festival in May will be available. Please, if you would like to display your collection or even help out try to attend the March meeting. There will be 12 to 14 tables for displays and 10 people will be needed as helpers. As in the past, the openings do fill up fast. Measures will be taken to try to accommodate all members who wish to display to have the chance to display. In keeping this column short, the last thing I’d like to add is; Happy Fossil Hunting! Cindy Muston

NORTH CAROLINA FOSSIL CLUB, INC.TREASURER’S REPORT – DECEMBER 31, 2003

Balance Brought Forward: December 31, 2002 $ 6099.91INCOME:

Dues 4180.00Neogene Fossils books (241) 1213.00Cretaceous Fossils books (203) 1027.00Seal/Dolphin books (24) 252.00Megalodon books (14) 238.00Cincinnati Fossils books (14) 91.00Oligocene Sharks and Rays books (1) 30.00London Clay Fossils books (1) 25.00T-Shirts and Sweatshirts (36) 360.00 Total Income 7416.00 TOTAL $ 13,515.00

EXPENSES:Club Meetings, Speakers, etc. 231.15Fossil Festival (Aurora) 37.85Fossil Fair 564.39Miscellaneous (Supplies, PO Box, etc.) 195.73CD ROM/Website expenses 586.02Printing (Janus, Membership Lists, etc.) 1032.29Stamps, Postage 808.76Cretaceous Fossils books (1000) 2028.86Cincinnati Fossils books (14) 84.84Southeast Fed. Mineral. Societies dues 402.00Southeast Fed. Mineral. Societies insurance 413.76Royalties on Neogene Fossils books 1742.20Aurora Festival Committee donation 300.00Reimbursement for dues overpayment 50.00 Total Expenses 8477.85

Balance on Hand: December 31, 2003 $ 5038.06

Trish Kohler Treasurer

Richard Tellekamp ScholarshipGreetings to all our friends,

I want to thank all who have taken the time to help my Mother since the passing of my Father last June. I appreciate the calls, cards, visits and help with all the issues, large or small, Mom has received.

After a lengthy process a memorial fund has been established in Dad’s name. It is the Richard Tellekamp Scholarship Endowment; managed by the North Carolina Community Foundation. This fund was established to help students from Onslow County attend college and to promote the study of marine life, the ocean and of course, fossils. To those who have contributed to the establishment of the fund, thank you. The fund currently is just barely above the minimum to be established, please consider contributing some amount each year to this cause.

Send your contributions to:

Richard Tellekamp Scholarship Endowment North Carolina Community Foundation PO Box 2828 Raleigh, NC 27602

Sincerely, Michael & Pamela Tellekamp

Fossils Found at Museum – Sea Shells and Shark Teethby Gail Bullock, Staff WriterRichlands-Beulaville Advertiser News (Used with permission)

Ron Edwards works with the Aurora Fossil Museum in Aurora, North Carolina. Jennifer Hardy’s fourth grade class at Parkwood Elementary School in Jacksonville, is studying fossils. When the students couldn’t go to the fossils, Edwards brought the fossils to the students.

A school busload of excited students arrived at Onslow County Museum in Richlands, where Edwards met them with buckets of dirt from PCS Phosphate Company in Aurora.

Once everyone, the buckets, and screen “pans” were inside, the students sifted through the dirt on paper-covered tables in the museum’s spacious multipurpose classroom. It was not long before piles of shark teeth and other fossils began to form.

Edwards brought some fossil exhibits from Aurora Fossil Museum, as well as some from his personal collection. They were all impressive specimens, but a shark tooth six inches wide, from Peru, was outstanding.

“I bought this at a good price,” Edwards said. “I don’t expect to go to Peru in my life, and I figured I’d better buy it if I wanted it.”

Edwards explained that this part of eastern North Carolina was once covered by the sea. “Time passed, and hundreds of millions of tons of small calcium phosphate pellets settled on the ocean floor. More time passed, and the phosphate beds were covered with clay and sand. Gradually, again over millions of years, the sea receded and the land appeared. The phosphate company is now one of the world’s largest phosphate facilities,” Edwards said.

Paige Sloan Manley did very well just with the buckets. She did so well, in fact, she just might be planning a trip to Peru!

NEWS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIAN FOSSIL BEDS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS

Dear All,

Here is the latest from the upcoming trip to Mazon Creek.

The primary collecting area is known as the Mazonia/Braidwood Fish and Wildlife Area. If you have an Illinois map, look for a spot about 80 miles southwest of Chicago off Interstate 55. The closest exit is at Gardner, Route 53. The site, along with many other mining operations, was surfaced mined (strip mined) from 1951 through 1970. The area was purchased about 20 years ago from Commonwealth Edison under the Wildlife Habitat Acquisition and Development Program. The site is situated not too far from the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Plant and cooling lakes.

Fossil collecting is only one aspect of wildlife area and the reason that managers have designated a “season” for collecting. The potential for injury of fossil hunters during deer hunting season is obvious. Opening day for fossil hunting is March 1st with the season lasting until September 30th. There is no fee, but you will be asked to sign a day-use permit. Notable restrictions are:

The permit is good for fossil collecting only. You should not be tempted by the well-stocked game fish in pit lakes. Surface collecting is permitted only. No shovels are allowed and surface vegetation should be disturbed as little as possible. Collectors must abide by designations for open and closed areas – More on this later. Vehicular access is limited. Collecting is for personal use only. Collecting for sale is not allowed. You will be limited to one, 5-gallon bucket of nodules. You will be asked to report your finds to the Illinois State Museum – More on this.

Because the area is close to a nuclear facility, collecting sites open a few years ago have been temporarily closed. Whether a site is open or closed may also depend on other factors such as over use or danger from unstable piles of debris. I do not know what areas will be open this year, but we should have several spots available. You will need to report your finds – a simple checklist of number of each category of fossil found or that the nodules were unopened.

You will be looking for reddish-brown iron stone concretions, locally known as nodules. Depending on what area you are working, you will find plant matter, jellyfish (blobs), clams, worms, shrimp and if you are lucky, a Tully Monster, our State Fossil. You will be able, after a few finds, to fairly accurately guess what is in your nodule. Long and flat will usually be a fern. Long with a round cross section will be a tree branch, round and flat is usually a jellyfish, irregular will be a worm or multi-lobed branch or leaf or worm. In the area, I’ve found a millipede, lots of ferns, jellyfish, worms and tree material. It will take a good eye and some imagination to identify some of your finds. I find that some sites have only plants and some have only animals.

There is a fair amount of material written on opening the nodules. The quickest way is whack the nodule on the edges. This can be satisfying or heartbreaking, depending on your skill, the fossil type and how weathered the fracture line is. The other method most common is alternating freezing and thawing the nodule. After soaking your collection in water for three days, place in a shallow pan and freeze solid. Remove from freezer

(if you live in the South) or bring back in the house (if you live here). Repeat 10 to 25 times. When a crack appears at the fracture line, a light tap will usually convince a nodule to pop open.

Adrienne and Fred have been busy on getting access to more than one site in the Mazon Creek area. They have also contacted a number of organizations, trying to set up speakers. No commitments yet but they are continuing their efforts.

Below is a sample itinerary on American, listed for $208 as of this writing. I’m sure you all know how fast these cheap fares go, so make your arrangements ASAP and let me know when you will be arriving in Bloomington.

Thursday, April 15 Depart RDU @ 8:34am on AA flight 609 Arr BMI @1236pm

Sunday, April 18 Depart BMI @ 1:06pm on AA flight 3946. Arr RDU 7:17pm

A very preliminary schedule is as follows:

Arrive: Bloomington, Illinois the afternoon or evening of Thursday, April 15, 2004.

Reception: TBA

Lodging: Eastland Suites, Bloomington, $59.00 per night Group rate, April 15, 16, 17, 18. You must make your own reservations. Call Eastland Suites at 309-662-0000 and speak with Lee Siegerdt. He is on duty 7:00AM – 3:00 CST Monday – Friday. Identify yourself as a guest of Shive-Hattery, Inc., 2103 Eastland Drive, Bloomington, IL. Please state, when you are making reservations, that it will be a “guest pay” or they will bill the Hahn’s company. If you have problems, let me or the Hahn’s know.

Transportation: 15 passenger van plus whoever drives and has space in his/her car.

Meals: Eastland has a breakfast bar. We’ll arrange for meals at the site and will make reservations for the evening meal.

Fossil site: April 16, 17, 18 - Mazonia-Braidwood Collecting Site. (We will substitute other possibly more productive sites if we can arrange it) There is a portable toilet on the grounds. But, the grounds cover a pretty large area.

Evenings: Speakers (To be determined)

Depart: Bloomington, April 18 or 19

We are also trying to arrange a tour of the Illinois Collections Building, an annex of the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. There are other things in the works so be prepared for updates.

General information that you should know: Mazonia rangers have had to warn several groups who had brought digging equipment into the site. Erosion is a problem and the rule is “no tools” period.

Please call/write the Hahn’s or myself with any questions. Contact information is:

Jeff Cohn: (919) 572-1682 or JCohn@nc.rr.com

Fred and Adrienne Hahn: (309) 661-2751 or f.a.trilobyte@verizon.net

We’re looking forward to seeing all of you in April!

Jeff

radium, thorium, and uranium, among others. Resulting saline, metallic, and radioactive contamination continues to bedevil drinking water and cattle production in a swath extending many miles downstream from the mine. The mine became a Superfund site in 1983. “On January 19, 2000, the Navajo Nation lifted its 1983 moratorium on uranium mining for uranium in-situ leach recovery” (Pelizza and McCarn 2003). Renewed exploitation of uranium resources is underway in the region, even though world uranium prices remain depressed, attesting to the rich nature of some local ores. A past cluster of lung cancers and other respiratory diseases among Navajo uranium miners (Brugge and Goble 2002), coupled with potential contamination of the Westwater aquifer, fuel ongoing opposition to uranium extraction and milling in this region. For further information, along with a unique and inexpensive tour of an underground uranium mine, visit the New Mexico Mining Museum, just off Interstate-40 (exit 81B), at 100 North Iron Avenue, Grants, NM.

For other collecting opportunities in the region, and for descriptions of local geology and landscapes, see Chronic (1987), Crow (1995), Mitchell (1987), Robinson (1994), and Voynick (1997).Ethics and laws: This site is public land, administered by the US Forest Service (USFS), Cibola National Forest. Historically, the Forest Service has permitted the collection of small amounts of petrified wood, fossil leaves, and invertebrate fossils for personal collections. Digging is not allowed, nor is sale or bartering of the materials collected. Unlike the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), with its standardized and generous policy on collecting petrified wood (Janus 2003, No. 1), USFS regulations vary from ranger district to ranger district, and many areas are closed to collecting altogether.

In response to my inquiry, Chuck Hagerdon, District Ranger, Mount Taylor Ranger District, graciously wrote an official letter to me on November 25, 2003, in which he stated that “We do not have a designated area for collecting or gathering petrified wood. You can hand gather a few small rock samples, including petrified wood, for recreation collection and personal use. A permit is not required for this type of collection. More than a few hand samples or a large specimen with potential commercial value, whether for personal use or not, requires a permit. We will consider issuing a free use permit to education institutions, universities, and museums if requested in advance. On the Mount Taylor Ranger District petrified wood predominately occurs in an area with T&E [threatened and endangered] plant species that we are required to protect and are limited in quantity; we do not plan to designate such an area for collecting in the foreseeable future. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Arnold Wilson or myself at 505-287-8833” (USFS file code 2800-1).

If fossil hobbyists act with restraint, respect, and discretion, then access to collecting sites on Federal lands might continue. As always, please report significant finds, especially fossil vertebrates, to the appropriate authorities.

Petrified wood is locally abundant in Mesozoic strata throughout the region. BLM lands are open to collecting. Military and Tribal lands are closed. Here near an old transcontinental railroad route, land-ownership patterns often follow a bizarre checkerboard pattern. Make sure you know where you are. Invest in maps, and use your global-positioning system (GPS), if you have one.

Tall Tales from the Trails, No. 4Triassic Petrified Wood near Fort Wingate, McKinley

County, West-Central New MexicoJames R. Bain, Bahama, NC

Summary: Petrified wood and fluorescent calcite. This site at the foot of the Zuni Mountains is a short distance south of Interstate 40 (and historic Route 66), not far west of the Continental Divide. Consider stopping here to stretch your legs when you make that cross-country road trip you have been promising yourself.D i f f i c u l t y : Two on a scale of five. Near a paved

highway,but with steep clay slopes. Geology: Sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the lower member, Triassic Bluewater Creek Formation, Chinle Group (Lucas et al. 1997), latest Carnian, deposited roughly 220-225 million years ago. This is similar in age to our Boren Clay site in the Deep River Formation, near Gulf, Chatham County, NC.Fossicking for fossils: Look for silicified wood eroding out of the soft sediments. A nocturnal search with an ultraviolet light might yield some fluorescent fossils. I enjoy carving the soft, laminated, translucent plates of calcite found here.

At the site shown on the map, the external surface of petrified wood is off-white to cream, and the interior is jet black. The material is permineralized, and takes a high polish. In some specimens, cracks and cavities are encrusted or even filled with water-clear quartz crystals. I have given several of you small hand specimens of this material.

The few chunks of petrified wood I collected here are consistent with Araucarioxylon (Janus 2003, No. 1), but one should always be on the lookout for two less-common forms, an enigmatic tree of unknown affinities called Schilderia, with its ray structure, and the big, warty Chain Fern, Woodworthia. Tidwell’s 1998 excellent book will help you sort your specimens.

This site and the area to the south along New Mexico Highway 400 are well known to collectors (Crow 1995: 47).

On an historic note, General William Tecumseh Sherman, after his wartime service in North Carolina and elsewhere, deployed a military expedition from Fort Wingate to collect colorful Triassic logs in nearby Arizona for the Smithsonian. These specimens came to be called the Sherman Logs (Conover 1997).

As you might know, fossil wood and uranium ore often occur together in the American Southwest (Janus 2003, No. 1). Uranium was mined extensively in the region of Grants and Gallup, New Mexico, in the mid- to late 20th Century, at times accounting for half of US uranium production. Mines in the vicinity of Crownpoint, Mariano Lake, and Church Rock fed mills at Grants and Shiprock. Major ore-bearing strata included the Middle Jurassic Todilto Formation and the Westwater Canyon Member of our old friend, the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.

From the media, you might know this area as the site of one of America’s biggest nuclear boo-boos to date. On July 16th, 1979, a dam failed, allowing solids and 90 million gallons of liquid waste to escape from a big tailings pond at Church Rock (see map), sending a radioactive pulse downstream into the Rio Puerco, and from there into the Little Colorado and Colorado Rivers. Contaminants of concern include cadmium, lead, polonium,

Navigation: From I-40, take exit 33 (McGaffey/Fort Wingate), and head south on New Mexico Highway 400 (see map). Just south of the little Navajo village of Fort Wingate, after passing the boundary sign for the Cibola National Forest, begin scanning the ridges on your right (west of the road) for clay beds exposed among the pinyon pine-juniper woodland, about 1⁄4 mile west of the road, at elevation ~7,250 feet. For you GPS users, one place to park on the right shoulder is 35º 27’ 22” N, 108º 32’ 46” W. Stay oriented as you traverse west through the woodland, with its steep ridges and deep ravines, to the collecting site. Please be gentle with the vegetation on these loose and barren soils, and walk along the contours, where possible.Where to camp and what else to see: Cibola National Forest maintains the Quaking Aspen Campground, a short distance south (and uphill) of the collecting area on New Mexico Highway 400, about 5.3 miles from the freeway exit. Look for petrified wood in any of the sedimentary strata you see on the drive up to camp. This campground (elevation ~7,600 feet, vault toilets, water spigots) is normally open May 15 through September 30. Dominant vegetation is tall Ponderosa Pines and the scrubby Gambel’s Oak. A second rustic USFS camp is a few miles farther south on route 400, at McGaffey Lake (elevation ~8,000 feet, lakeside camp with fishing).

If you prefer a camp with flush toilets and hot showers, take exit 63 from I-40 at Prewitt, and then drive a short distance south on New Mexico Highway 412 to where it ends at Bluewater Lake State Park (elevation ~7,500 feet). For privacy, camp on the knoll at the south end of the camping area, near the dam on Bluewater Creek. A store is sometimes open in the tiny Navajo village just outside the park entrance. To see calcite and quartz crystals and Permian invertebrate fossils, stand at the main boat ramp facing the water, and then scramble over the limestone (? dolomite ?) ledges to your left. The big ugly brachiopods that resemble human buttocks are the mud-dwelling, “upside-down-living” productids, Dictyoclostus. They have a finely striated, double-dome shape. Pelecypod fossils are found here, too. Many fossils are encrusted with an attractive, druzy layer of tiny crystals.

Regional attractions are abundant here on the Great Divide. If you are driving cross-country on I-40, this area (peak elevation 7,268 feet on I-40), and the area in and west of Flagstaff, AZ, my home town (peak elevation 7,335 feet on I-40 at the Arizona Divide), are the two high spots. [Note that in both places, the freeway pavement is higher than the summit of Mount Mitchell, NC, the highest point (6,684 feet) in eastern North America.] Both have cool weather, extinct volcanoes, and pine forests. Slow down, cool off, and see the country away from the freeway. Nice day trips from the collecting site include El Malpais National Monument (fresh lava, with lava-tube caves), El Morro National Monument (sandstone butte with prehistoric, Spanish, and pioneer American inscriptions), and Chaco Culture National Historical Park (extensive ruins from AD ~850 to 1250). Stone fetishes carved by members of the Zuni Tribe at the little village of Zuni are famous around the world. In the Navajo Reservation “border town” of Gallup, be sure to “get your kicks on Route 66,” the town’s main street.

The Navajo Nation is large and growing, both in population and area. Here in northwestern New Mexico, the Tribe has recently purchased much land, but Congress has not yet removed

all of that land from the tax rolls and made it part of the vast Navajo Reservation, which extends across three states. The Navajo call themselves Diné (“dee-NAY,” meaning simply, “the people”). Recent arrivals from the north, they were beginning to move into northwestern New Mexico at about the same time that the Spanish were arriving from the south. Listen to their speech on the radio and on the street. Those of you who have heard Native Americans speak in Alaska, British Columbia, or western Washington might smile when you recognize Navajo as an Athabascan language. Slowly, the written form of Navajo, developed in the late 1930s, is coming into use. Today, the Navajo Nation is America’s largest Tribe. Literature cited:

Brugge, Doug, and Ron Goble. “The history of uranium mining and the Navajo people.” American Journal of Public Health 92: 1410-1419, 2002.

Chronic, Halka. Roadside Geology of New Mexico. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana, xiv + 255 pages, 1987. [She did her Ph.D. dissertation in paleontology at Columbia in the early 1950’s, and she sprinkles enjoyable tidbits about fossils throughout her “roadside geology” books.]

Conover, Adele. “The object at hand.” Smithsonian 28 (3): 30 ff., 1997.

Crow, Melinda. The Rockhound’s Guide to New Mexico. Falcon Press Publishing Company, Helena, Montana, vii + 156 pages, 1995.

Lucas, Spencer G., Andrew B. Heckert, and Orin J. Anderson. “Triassic stratigraphy and paleontology of the Fort Wingate quadrangle, west-central New Mexico.” New Mexico Geology 19(2): 33-42, 1997. [This helpful publication is available for $4.00, including shipping and handling, from the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, http://geoinfo.nmt.edu. Your visit to Fort Wingate will be enriched if you have this work at hand in the field.]

Mitchell, James R. Gem Trails of New Mexico. Expanded, revised edition, Gem Guides Book Company, Baldwin Park, California, 110 pages, 1987. [I have had no trouble with this book thus far. It seems to be accurate and up-to-date. Newcomers to the West should be cautious with other books in this “gem trails” series. I have found some entries in their state guides to be grossly outdated, vague, misleading, and just plain wrong. Sometimes I wonder if the authors actually visited the sites at all.]

Pelizza, Mark, and Dan W. McCarn. “Licensing of in situ leach recovery operations for the Crownpoint and Church Rock uranium deposits; New Mexico; a case study; Part 1 of 2.” Professional Geologist 40: 5-10, 2003.

Robinson, Sherry. El Malpais, Mount Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: A Hiking Guide and History. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, xvii + 276, 1994.

Tidwell, William D. Common Fossil Plants of Western North America. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., xiii + 299 pages, 1998. [This excellent, inexpensive book is a “must” for anyone interested in plant fossils.]

Voynick, Stephen M. New Mexico Rockhounding: A Guide to Minerals, Gemstones, and Fossils. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Montana, vii + 309 pages, 1997. [Stephen is a rockhound’s rockhound, and I always get my money’s worth from his books, many times over.]

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