Fossils we found

 

 

Location

Class

Name of specimen

Total Number of specimens found

Total number with drill holes

Total number without drill holes

Flag Ponds

gastropod

Turritella

 

 

 

 

3

none

3

Flag Ponds, Matoaka Cabins, Scientists Cliffs

bivalve

Bicorbula

 

11

3

8

Flag Ponds, Matoaka Cabins, Scientists Cliffs

bivalve

Chesapecten

 

37

4

33

Flag Ponds, Matoaka Cabins, Scientists Cliffs

bivalve

Dallarca

 

 

292

 

37

255

Flag Ponds, Matoaka Cabins, Scientists Cliffs 

bivalve

Astarte

89

48

42

Flag Ponds, Matoaka Cabins

gastropod

Lunatia

3

1

2

Matoaka Cabins

bivalve

Penope

1

none

1

Matoaka Cabins

gastropod

Ecphora

1

none

1

Matoaka Cabins

Bivalve

Crucibulum

 

2

none

2

Scientists Cliffs

bivalve

Eucrassatella

 

 

1

none

1

Matoaka Cabins, Scientists Cliffs

bivalve

Mercenaria

4

3

1

 

In one method of collecting our data, we measured off an area of the beach five meters in width. We did our searching in this confined area. We also looked wherever we wanted in a different method. We could go into the water, but the water couldn’t go past our knees.

 

   

Note: Digging in the cliffs is dangerous. It is illegal in all places along the shore, and special permission is required to dig in them.  

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