NEW BILLS FOR THE 2025-26 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Make Jurassic Armored Mud Balls an official STATE SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE in 2025 - 26!

HOUSE BILL: H.3438

SENATE BILL:  S.2115

Please CONTACT YOUR STATE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES and REQUEST THAT THEY 

 SIGN-ON AS A CO-SPONSOR (a common request for supporters).   Rep. SUSANNAH WHIPPS and Sen. JO COMERFORD are the lead sponsors.

Successful bills need lots of co-sponsors!  Thank you for your support.  We must "save" these unique features only easily seen in Massachusetts!

A sample letter to legislators is below (copy / paste / share)

Also: See next page for all the legislators that co-sponsored the Podokesaurus "State Dinosaur" bill of 2022.  They need to be urged to support the "JAMBs" as State Sedimentary Structure"!

  Dear ______,

Please join Rep. Whipps and Sen. Comerford and be a co-sponsor of H.3438 and S.2115 to designate the rare and unique Jurassic Armored Mud Balls (“JAMBs”) as our official state “Sedimentary Structure”. Two Massachusetts State Geologists (Dr. Steve Mabee, Emeritus, and Dr. Brian Yellen) confirm: “The Jurassic armored mud balls are one of the rarest sedimentary structures in the world, representing a unique geologic environment… and are only easily seen in Massachusetts. That alone makes this feature worthy of recognition.”

These rare and interesting features can be found in Greenfield, Turners Falls, Gill, and Deerfield in the same geologic layers as Podokesaurus (State Dinosaur) and Dinosaur Footprints (State Fossil). The best-in-the-world JAMB specimens are displayed along the Geology Path at Greenfield Community College and at Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls. Smaller examples are in Franklin County town museums plus Amherst College’s Beneski Museum, the Springfield Science Museum and Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

If our Massachusetts Jurassic Armored Mud Balls are not officially recognized and celebrated, they will likely be neglected and their significance forgotten. That will be a great loss to the world of science as well as our Massachusetts heritage. 

Please be a co-sponsor and thank you very much for your support.  More information is at https://ArmoredMudBalls.rocks.