Battsmith Bluff is a fossil collection site in Dallas, Alabama, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as terrestrial indet. Documented finds include Hadrosauridae.

Geologic setting

Geologic interval: Campanian to Maastrichtian
Age: 83.6–66 Ma
Depositional environment: terrestrial indet.
Recorded occurrences: 1

Locality notes

Battsmith Bluff; sec 32, T17N, R12E

Fossils found here

Hadrosauridae

Ornithischia · Hadrosauridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 142379 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Battsmith Bluff

Can you collect at Battsmith Bluff?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Battsmith Bluff?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 140.6 kg stony meteorite was found at Selma in 1906, 9 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.