| Big Brook Blog! |
| I've put this page together for you, the collector, to post your collecting images and your finds made at Big Brook and the other local streams in the area. You can email me the pictures, a description and date of what was found, as well as your explorations, and I will post them to this page. |
| I will start off this page with some things that I found at Big Book on a trip that I and several of my friends took on 07/25/09. There were quite a few people on the trip that had never been to the site so most of the teeth that I found went to them; these were the nicer teeth that I keept. I'm not sure what the ridged thing is directly up from the quarter. If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks. |
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| Update: Several years ago I went to see Dr. John G. Maisey (expert on fossil fish) at the American Museum of Natural History to get some things looked at. He was very interested in the fish skull that I had. He determined that the skull was from a fish related to one that comes from the Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil. This would be the first occurence of this type of fish in New Jersey! (might be a new species?) The small brain case in the picture is a copy that the museum had made; they kept the original. The larger fish is from the Santana Formation of Brazil Vinctifer comptoni. |
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| I had recieved a collection of fossils several months ago and this cool card was in it. |
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