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US East, New Jersey
Middletown NJ
Poricy Brook fossil beds
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Fossils
Shark teethAlso reported: Pycnodonte oysters, brachiopods.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Navesink Formation Late Cretaceous marl in a township park brook, saved from development in the late 1960s
Township publishes a fossil guide and runs guided hunts with screen rental; 72-million-year-old shell beds documented
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Cold waterSlippery marl, poison ivy on banks
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