How to find fossil shark teeth at the Baldwyn/Frankstown, MS fossil park #1

This W.M. Browning Cretaceous fossil park has been traditionally called the “Frankstown Fossil site,” although the physical address is in Baldwyn, MS.

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Episode #1: Mr. Brent Lavers took us on an excursion to this site several years back and we returned........

Darrell Barnes, Charles Barnes and Melissa Vazquez hunt for fossil shark teeth at the W. M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park near Frankstown, MS. The site is located at the crossroads of Hwy 30 and I-45 near Tupelo, MS.

Robbie McCrory and Tony Crouch from Fulton, MS give us pointers on how to locate the fossils and then best practices for use of the "shake-box" to "pan" for shark, dinosaur and alligator teeth.

We learned that we needed to dig about 2-3 feet below the sandy surface of the stream to reach the crunchy substrate that is loaded with fossils.

Additionally, a 1/4" chicken wire sieve is preferred over "screen-door" wire, since it filters out sand much more rapidly.

I remember doing this in the 70's with my Scoutmaster (my Dad), Dr. Grover D. Barnes in a stream bed south of Jackson, MS near Byram.

Mississippi was once covered in a warm, shallow ocean.....this is the evidence.

Good times! And thanks for the help from the Indiana Jones treasure hunters from Fulton, MS!

Dr. Darrell D. Barnes August 2015

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