Harrell Station (Selma chalk, AL)
An Upper Cretaceous chalk locality in Dallas County, Alabama — classic Mooreville/Demopolis Chalk producing mosasaur, plesiosaur and Cretoxyrhina shark teeth. Access is private; landowner permission or organized university/club trips are the path in.
Walk the eroding chalk gullies after rain. Look for dark, glossy enamel against white chalk. Dig only with landowner permission.
Private land — direct visits require landowner contact. Universities (Alabama Museum of Natural History) and the Alabama Paleontological Society organize legal field trips.
Private property; trespass laws apply. Vertebrate scientifically significant finds should be reported to a museum.
- Slick chalk surfaces when wet
- Heat and humidity
- Snakes
- Join the Alabama Paleontological Society or McWane Science Center field trips for legal, productive access
- Cretoxyrhina teeth are larger than they look on the chalk — the pale matrix tricks scale perception
- Carry small bags and label exact find spot for science value
Shark teeth findable here
Trophy = headline find · Rare = real score · Uncommon = some trips · Common = most trips.
Also findable here
The beachcomber's bonus round — what else the geology gives up.
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