Also known as Biggs farm locality on the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, about 300 yd west of light 13 and 1.3 miles (airline) due east of St. Georges Bridge
Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.6° N, 75.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.3° N, 36.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Laurel Sand Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine
Reposited in the USGS
• Collected by Buddenhagen, Kauffman, and Sohl 1966
Primary reference: J. P. Owens, J. P. Minard, N. F. Sohl and F. James Mello. 1970. Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland. USGS Professional Paper 674:1-60 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6172: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 01.02.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Scabrotrigonia eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
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"? Microchlamys (Pecten) venustus" = Dhondtichlamys
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Arca sp. n. sp., cf. Arca macnairyensis
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"cf. Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
"cf. Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa Morton 1834 carrier shell Xenophora cf. X. leprosa Morton
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Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) sp., cf. Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) nudus, Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) ? americanus
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"Micrabacia hilgardi" = Micrabacia marylandica
"Micrabacia hilgardi" = Micrabacia marylandica Stephenson 1916 stony coral Micrabacia hilgardi Stephenson
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