Mudfossil Hunt in Arizona, Day 1

We decided it was time to load up and go look at mudfossils in a different part of the country. We chose to check out some areas of Arizona to see what we could find. We covered a lot of ground and hiked a lot of miles. My footage has a lot of hard edits in it out of respect for the privacy of people who helped us get access to and help us narrow down the areas in which we will most likely find the things for which we are looking. Because of the edits, I will be able to show only a small sample of what we found. We found a lot of interesting stuff. Some of it is very similar to mudfossils in other regions of the country and some of it is distinct from other regions. I am weeding through and editing footage as time permits, but I will post the videos as I finish them. One find in particular stands as a stark challenge to everything I thought I knew about the natural world of the United States long before it was the United States, but the evidence is what it is and I am still trying to sort it out. I will make a note on that video when I upload it.