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Hello, I will be visiting Delaware next week and was looking for fossil sites to visit. I have already decided to visit Reedy Point on the C & D canal, but when visiting the Delaware Geological Survey's webpage about fossil sites I found mention of the state sand and gravel pit, which the webpage claims has plant impressions from the Pleistocene and can be found just south of Middletown on route 896. I tried looking online for information about this site and was only able to find this map with the site marked as number 4, but it does not give an exact location. Furthermore, the description
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B. americana is the Delaware State Fossil. They swam in huge schools and were the base of the food chain in the shallow sea that covered Delaware and New Jersey at the time. This one was found by a surface scan of the loose fossils at the site. They are very common in broken bits and pieces. A whole piece will have a point at the tip and a conically hollow section, the rostrum, at the other end. Whole ones are very rare. This one is nice, however, because it still has its original texture.
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Collected winter, 2016 C&D Canal, Reedy Point spoils, North side Delaware City, DE Late Cretaceous -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Collected early 2017 C&D Canal, Reedy Point spoils, North side Delaware City, DE Late Cretaceous -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Collected early 2017 C&D Canal, Reedy Point spoils, North side Delaware City, DE Late Cretaceous -
I just put together a rather shakey video of the C & D Canal in New Castle County, Delaware in preparation for a trip I'm leading this fall. I didn't find anything Earth-shattering that day, but it gives and idea of the locale and the finds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMfXz-_B5fA&t=93s
