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Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

New Castle County, Delaware
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is a fossil collection site in New Castle, Delaware, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Mount Laurel/Navesink Formation, dated to the Early Maastrichtian (72.2–66 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Palaeocypraea grooti.

Geologic setting

Formation
Mount Laurel/Navesink
Geologic interval
Early Maastrichtian
Age
72.2–66 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Altitude
34 meters
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 2.41 km east of crossing of U.S. Highway 13 and the canal at St. Georges

Fossils found here

Palaeocypraea grooti
Gastropoda · Cypraeidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 176022 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

Can you collect at Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.