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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Geologic interval
- Holocene
- Depositional environment
- terrestrial indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 22
Barnstable
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 176525 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 41.70011, -70.29946
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