The turtle skull was in more than 60 pieces when uncovered, and only the larger pieces of the jaw were evident. The rest were just underneath the soil and carefully dug out with a screwdriver and a modern piece of coyote rib found earlier in the dig.
Rebecca Vallarian, left, and Tupelo Rock Club President Nancy Roberts search at site in Clay County where sea turtle bones were discovered. The bones are estimated to be approximately 70 million years old.
The turtle skull was in more than 60 pieces when uncovered, and only the larger pieces of the jaw were evident. The rest were just underneath the soil and carefully dug out with a screwdriver and a modern piece of coyote rib found earlier in the dig.
Rebecca Vallarian, left, and Tupelo Rock Club President Nancy Roberts search at site in Clay County where sea turtle bones were discovered. The bones are estimated to be approximately 70 million years old.
AMORY – Rebecca Egger Vallarian rocks – in the geological sense.
“I cannot remember a time that I was not interested in rocks,” Vallarian said. “I love a pile of gravel; there are so many treasures in what most would see as ‘just rocks.’ Beautiful druze, fossil shell imprints, petrified wood pieces, agates, rocks that look like funny faces – it is all there by looking at gravel.”
