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It is a park, the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park. The Edelmans gave 25 million dollars to build a Museum and visitors center. Thank you Edelmans!

 

https://www.rowan.edu/fossils/

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On 7/1/2020 at 11:15 AM, Scylla said:

No, not the fish site, a different one. Cretaceous fossil pit might become a fossil park!

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mantua-township-ted-paleontology


What is the fish site?

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16 hours ago, The Jersey Devil said:


What is the fish site?

There used to be a place people collected fossil fish that ended up being a Home Depot or Walmart. I never got there but other TFF members have fossils from there. Kinda like the Medieval Times site in that a famous spot got developed and is now gone.

 

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6 hours ago, Scylla said:

There used to be a place people collected fossil fish that ended up being a Home Depot or Walmart. I never got there but other TFF members have fossils from there. Kinda like the Medieval Times site in that a famous spot got developed and is now gone.

 


Hmm I don’t think I’ve ever seen whole fish found in NJ. Or was this in another state?

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38 minutes ago, The Jersey Devil said:


Hmm I don’t think I’ve ever seen whole fish found in NJ. Or was this in another state?

I think whole fish have been found in the Newark supergroup historically, but with the rapid development of the eastern seaboard tons of those sites got bulldozed over, quarries got filled in, etc.

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9 minutes ago, Petalodus12 said:

I think whole fish have been found in the Newark supergroup historically, but with the rapid development of the eastern seaboard tons of those sites got bulldozed over, quarries got filled in, etc.


Oh ok that makes more sense, they aren’t Cretaceous.

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If anyone wants this PDF send me a PM.  ;) 

 

 

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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On 7/3/2020 at 4:28 PM, The Jersey Devil said:


Hmm I don’t think I’ve ever seen whole fish found in NJ. Or was this in another state?

Check out Jeffrey P's Triassic Gallery

Or mine. LINK

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

Check out Jeffrey P's Triassic Gallery

Or mine. LINK


Yeah I always target the New Jersey cretaceous whenever I collect so I forget about the existence of the older upstate NJ material. Maybe I’ll get up there one day.

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Another classic monograph:

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Eastman, C.R. 1905

The Triassic Fishes of New Jersey.

Geological Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report of the Sate Geologist, pp. 67-131  PDF LINK

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