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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 (?)- 7 replies
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Has anyone gone fossil hunting in Camden County or the surrounding counties (Gloucester, ? (New Jersey)
Suchascenicworld posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hey everyone, I just moved to South Jersey (from North Jersey) a few months back. I love fossil hunting, but I am afraid that I do not know much about the area other than some of the bigger sites or finds (i.e. Hadrosaurus in Haddonfield, the Rowan site). Today, I drove to check out the tributaries around Big Timber Creek in Stratford. While the stratigraphy looked quite nice at a few places, I unfortunately came out empty handed. I work in GIS so I have been following the bedrock with stream layers, but I suspected that I probably should add topology in there! I am hoping to follow the Navesink and Mt. Laurel formations up from there. Anyways, this is all new to me! if anyone had any tips or advice for fossil hunting down here, than let me know! Any advice is greatly appreciated! thank you-
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This new paper looks at fragmentary specimens from the east coast of America and provides a better understanding of theropod diversity in this region https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191206#.Xcv2qFgX_EQ.twitter
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This was found in the spoils from dredging the C&D Canal in the 1980s. Recent removal of spoils sand for road construction in the area exposed previously- inaccessible layers of sand. Formerly known as Ostrea panda. It remains in the same Order. This species is not listed in the Delaware Geological Survey's bulletin about the fossils of the Canal. It is distinguished by its round shape. Pycnodontes are an extinct genus of oysters known as foam or honeycomb oysters.
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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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