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Belemnite
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By I_gotta_rock (edited)
Taxonomy
Belemnite
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullosca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Belemnitida
Family: Belemnitidae
Genus: Belemnitella
Species: Belemnitella americana
Author Citation (Morton, 1830)
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Cretaceous
Epoch: Late
Stratigraphy
Mount Laurel Formation
Provenance
Collector: me
Date Collected: 08/05/2010
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 4 "
Location
Reedy Point (north side) Spoils Pile from C&D Canal
New castle County
Delaware
United States
Comments
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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