Successful Fossil Hunt-Patience Is A Fossil Hunting Tool

This past Sunday,7/20/14, I spent a few hours hunting fossils. We recently had some heavy rain and some road cuts in Hinds county that had been exposed by heavy equipment yielded some nice shells, fish vertebrae and a sharks tooth! Nothing special in the fossil collecting world for sure, but exciting for me none the less. These are from the Vicksburg group and Chickasawhay limestone formations. The scallop shells are pretty delicate so I was quite happy to find them in pristine condition, even after the heavy equipment went through. I will definitely be checking this area once again after periodic heavy rains. These were laying right on the surface, no digging was needed. By using the online tools I have presented in earlier posts, I knew this area would have fossils and I took an opportunity to capitalize on the area after it had been exposed. Driving by this area often I just knew there were fossils to be had and was biding my time, and being patient, which is hard to do, and it presented itself. Patience is another tool to find fossils, and for me it is one of the hardest for me to use.