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Baldwyn MS

W.M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Also reported: oysters.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Twenty Mile Creek cutting the Coon Creek beds, the famous Frankstown Late Cretaceous shark-tooth locality made a public park

Long-published Frankstown site; park signage and multiple named collector reports with shark, mosasaur and dinosaur scrap finds

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Swift muddy water after rainSnakes, no facilities on site

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