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Micro Scallop
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By I_gotta_rock
Taxonomy
Scallop
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalva
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinoidae
Genus: Pecten
Species: Pecten whitfieldi
Author Citation Weller, 1907
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Maastrichtian
Stratigraphy
Mt Laurel/Navesink Formation spoils
Provenance
Collector: Heather Siple
Date Collected: 01/07/2021
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Diameter: 7 mm
Location
Reedy Point-- North Side
New Castle
Delaware
United States
Comments
The treasure of the Reedy Point Spoils is in the micros! This is one of over 100 micros I collected in one day just surface collecting after the spoils area was freshly cleared of vegetation -- and freshly cleared of much of the remaining matrix. Of all of those micro fossils, this is the only one of this species and very possibly the only one I have found in 16 years of collecting at that site.
The Reedy Point Spoils is a 220+ acre dredge deposit from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The matrix is a combination of material from the Mt Laurel and Navesink Formations, which are not exposed in Delaware, but are on the surface in their namesake towns in NJ.
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