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 39.0° N, 45.6° W)

• 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

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