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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Exogyra cancellata C&D Canal, DE Mount Laurel Formation Late Cretaceous -
C&D Canal - Delaware City - Late Cretaceous Mt. Laurel Formation
Masonk posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Took a trip to the dredge piles at the C&D Canal earlier this week. Spent about 45 minutes there, sweating in the sun! Worth going back for another, longer visit. I understand they are now dredging in different areas, covering over the fossiliferous piles. There still appears to be quite a few fossils, however I'm sure as the project continues access will lessen. I went to the first pull off, east side of Reedy Point Bridge on the northern side of the canal. This was my second visit here (last time was a short 15min visit to scope it out). I believe there are 3 other sites with dredge piles, which I've yet to check out. I had a shovel and sifter, but mostly did some surface hunting. Belemnites, Pycnodonte and Exogyra were abundant. Highlight was a complete Brachiopod (Terebratulina Cooperi). Thanks for looking! Some photos of the site, and a few fossils I found sitting on the surface. Sunscreen and water is a must for a couple hour excursion. Pycnodonte mutabilis Belemnite Beleminite and Lima Reticulata (?).thumb.png.a28bf0ae487c034e2d1700102f4f4941.png)
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After finding that dredging had occurred at the C&D Canal earlier this year, I decided to take two trips out to explore the area and collect some of my favorite fossils - Belemnitella americana! I had written the location off in my prior scouts for hunting spots as most resources stated that the site was picked clean after the prior dredging. Thankfully, the renewed piles of spoils were bountiful and I brought back a haul of about 300+ Belemnites including a monster 10cm one and many various bivalves such as oyster and scallops. Not too bad for a noob hunter!
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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
Either Lunatia halli or Gyrodes petrosus Collected winter, 2017 C&D Canal, Reedy Point spoils, North side Delaware City, DE Late Cretaceous -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Loptosolen sp. 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
Echinoid from the Mt. Laurel Formation, Reed Point Spoils at C&D Canal, Delaware City, DE Cretaceous Era, approx. 72 myo 3/4 of an inch in diameter© Heather J M Siple
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I could really, really use some help on this one! I found this 1.5" cephalopod in the Cretaceous MT Laurel sand at the C&D Canal, Delaware City, DE (north side). There are only four cephalopods listed for this site in the Delaware guide, the straight-shelled Bacculites ovatus, Oxybelaoceras (which is heavily ribbed and doubles over on itself tightly in a U shape) and the golden bullets of Belemnitella americana. There are two other cephalopods listed for the canal zone - at different sites- in the Delaware guide, but they are both tightly-coiled.This one was loosely-coiled, probably in a spiral, and lightly ribbed all the way around. Most of the ribbing has broken off of this specimen, but you can just make out how they go all the way around at the upper left edge of the first photo. The closest thing I can find to this is a lightly-ribbed, loosely-coiled Cirroceras conradi. It is listed in the Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey, through which all the canal formations run, but the only specimens found in NJ were in the Navesink formation. C. conradi also gets smoother on the inside of the coil, at least in the image in the book. I'm not very good at figuring out the text descriptions. The C&D Canal isn't supposed to cut through the Navesink formation, either, but it is as close as I can find. I'm thinking this might be one specimen I should not lose in a drawer, but I have no idea what it is or where to turn once I figure it out. It just isn't supposed to be there!
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Late Cretaceous Oyster Reedy Point (North Side) Spoils Pile MT Laurel Formation Delaware City, Delaware Based on "Cretaceous Fossils from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal: A Guide for Students and Collectors" by Edward M. Lauginiger -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Late Cretaceous Scallop Reedy Point (North Side) Spoils Pile MT Laurel Formation Delaware City, Delaware Based on "Cretaceous Fossils from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal: A Guide for Students and Collectors" by Edward M. Lauginiger -
This species is one of the most common finds at this location. This particular specimen is actually two individuals. One grew on another. The "stand" for the upright shells is the flat half of another Pycnodonte. These were found in living state in loose sand with mud holding the two pieces of the intact animal together.
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The recenty-bare plain of the Reedy Point North spoils pile, seemingly lost, until one walks in a little further! Yesterday, I got some rather disturbing news. I had just arranged a trip to The C&D Canal's Reedy Point spoils pile, just South of Delaware City. I mentioned it in a post here and someone reported back that the site, which I had just visited two months ago, which the Army Corps of Engineers promised would be available in October, had been paved over with a parking lot and a brand-new, paved bike path replaced of the old, gravel road. It would have been the fastest government construction project in Delaware history. It also would have been my luck for this report to be accurate the day after Delaware Nature Society posted the trip online! This morning, I jumped out of bed to see what the scene had become. I was never so happy to see that familiar gravel road! It was like Indiana Jones realizing that the Germans were digging in the wrong place. They had not paved my beloved sandbox and the one who told me about the pavement, it turns out, had missed a turn when driving through. *Whew!* Two months ago, the site was cleared of most vegetation, as it is from time to time. The sand gets used in road construction. Sometimes they take everything of interest, as they did across the canal at another spoils pile, and sometimes they reveal some rather nice pieces. The place was littered with fossils on a vast plain of bare sand in late May! This morning, the place looked, on first glance, absolutely overgrown, like the picture above. Even the truck tracks that were clear for decades suddenly had 2-foot-high weeds almost hiding them. I pressed on to see what was visible over the hill. The weeds gave way in patches to loose, open sand by the acre. Oh, yes! Plenty of Pycnodontes! Bountiful Belemnites! Oodles of Ostreas! A multitude of myriad miniatures! When I left home, I didn't expect to return with anything. I expected pavement. At best I expected to find the same old stuff and leave it where it was. Instead, I may actually have found one species I didn't have in the collection yet, plus a pocket load of nice, mini pieces that I just couldn't leave there and one of the biggest Pycnodonte mutabilis I've ever seen. You never know until you go! view from about 50 meters to the left of the top photo
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Oyster (Exogyra cacellata) from the Mt. Laurel Formation, Reedy Point Spoils North Side at C&D Canal, Delaware City, DE Cretaceous Era, approx. 72 myo Found May, 2016 -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Oyster from the Mt. Laurel Formation, Reed Point Spoils at C&D Canal, Delaware City, DE Cretaceous Era, approx. 72 myo Same as previous shell, but opened to show interior.© Heather J M Siple
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
oyster from the Mt. Laurel Formation, Reed Point Spoils at C&D Canal, Delaware City, DE Cretaceous Era, approx. 72 myo 4 inches long Specimen is riddled with ichnofossils, probably from predatory echinoids.© Heather J M Siple
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I am new to the forum and this is my first time posting. I do appreciate the existance of the forum and look forward to exploring all it has to offer. So. On a recent trip to the C&D canal in Delaware, Reedy point to be exact, I found this 3/4 " fossil. I think it is Creataceous and I think it is an Ostrea. I have done some research and have not been able to pin this one down. Any thoughts? And thanks for any help. Edge view Side 1 view Side 2 view
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