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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Hemiaster delawarensis Late Cretaceous Mount Laurel Formation C and D Canal, Reedy Point North Delaware City, Delaware, USA -
Hello, my name is Jake. I am a young major fossil collector and am new to the Fossil Forum. I live in Middletown Delaware and am wondering where I can find the dredge piles at St Georges on the C and D Canal. I have been to the dredge piles at the reedy point bridge before and found a junk load of belemnites. I found it really fun. But me and my mom are major shark tooth enthusiasts and we did not find any. I know that you can find them there but they are not as common at that spot. What I do know is that the dredge piles from the marshalltown formation contain much more shark and vertabre material. So me and my mom want to find those piles. I know that it is in the area around the summit bridge on the north side, but it is a big area and could not find the exact location. I met someone there who had found fossils there before and told me that they are around the soybean field but that area is huge and could not determine the exact location. I was wondering if anyone knows exactly where to find the dredge piles and if you could, please insert a marker of the exact location on a google maps image. Thank You!
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
National Fossil Day 2018 at Ashland Nature Center in Delaware© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
National Fossil Day 2018 at Ashland Nature Center in Delaware© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
The pool is loaded with sand and local fossils that visitors could take home - oysters, shark teeth, and belemnites! Oh, my!© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
This game really had people thinking! Can you tell which are which?© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
About 60% of fossil shells fluoresce. This was a quick set-up using a cardboard box and an ultraviolet LDE flashlight. Flashlights like this are long wave, so they don't work with nearly as many species as shortwave, but for some species it doesn't really matter which wavelength one uses. The $15 flash light was much more expendable than my shortwave light!© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
This game really had people thinking! Can you tell which are which?© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
We used Crayola Model Magic to make plant imprints. The medium really holds details well, dries quickly and doesn't make a huge mess (-:© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
Set up at Ashland Nature Center to show how fossils are extracted from loosely packed sand matrix. I decided this block probably wasn't going to have anything rare an d exciting in it, so I invited some helpers when things were quiet.© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
Set up at Ashland Nature Center to show how fossils are extracted from loosely packed sand matrix.© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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From the album: 2018 National Fossil Day, Delaware Style
© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple Photography
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Happy belated National Fossil Day! Hope I'm not overstepping from bounds by posting this, but a few people on the forum have asked me how to get out to the one accessible spot left at the C and D Canal in Delaware. It's tricky to find and doesn't look like much when you first get there. I am leading a trip out there this Sunday for Delaware Nature Society as my somewhat belated, but more publicly accessible, National Fossil Day excursion. We are going to be out on the plain that is a the spoils from the canal for a couple hours looking for treasures, but it won't take more then a few minutes to find your first fossil out there. You are welcome to stay and play until sunset if you like. The web site says "Families with children ages 7 and up," but this does not mean that adults with no children in tow are unwelcome, only that the terrain isn't really good for shorter children. The cost for non-members is a whopping $18 per person. You can keep anything and everything you find. People come home with buckets of Belemnites, oodles of Ostrea (well, Agerostrea), and generous numbers of gastropods. Occasional Echodus and shark teeth are also around, but pretty rare in this spot. You can see some of what I've found out there in my album. The matrix is loose sand. Just walk around and pick stuff up! We'll clear a spot of weeds and do a little sifting, too. Register online today. https://www.delawarenaturesociety.org/DNS/Events/Registration/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=F17066AS#.Wd9iJUzMz6c While you're at the DNS visitor center to meet for the trip, you can stop inside and see the displays I'll have set up about Fossils from Delaware and beyond. How well can you tell a fossil from a modern shell or a pseudo fossil? Ever looked at a fossil shell under black light before? See the variety of fossils and ages to be found in our tiny state. Or, if you're not going on the trip but just want to explore with smaller folks, sift through the kiddie pool, for canal fossils I collected earlier this year and for Florida shark teeth donated by the Delaware Museum of Natural History. While I'm around I'll be preparing some matrix from Maryland with my handy dental picks. The visitor center activities are free, but trail fees for the rest of the property apply. The visitor center activities will be open Saturday and Sunday, 9-4. For directions, visit www.delnature.org.
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From the album: Fossil Flourescence
Pycnodonte mutabilis, viewed under natural light at left and under short-wave ultraviolet light at right.© c. 2017 Heather J M Siple
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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.
