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Poricy Park
Poricy Park is a nature preserve and park in Middletown Township, New Jersey, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It is known for its Cretaceous period fossil shell beds along the Poricy Brook streambed, open to the public for limited collecting. The park also contains a Nature Center and the Murray Farmhouse and Barn, a New Jersey Historic Site. History Poricy Park began in 1969 as local residents protested a proposed sewer project which would have impacted Poricy Brook. They formed a non-profit organization which in partnership with Middletown Township, the Nature Conservancy and New Jersey Green Acres began buying land between 1970 and 1973. The town designated the land as a nature preserve and leased the land to the Conservancy to manage. In 2004, the organization was officially renamed the Poricy Park Conservancy. Geology The Poricy Brook cuts through a number of geological layers which are rising due to glacial rebound. The highest layer is the rust co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyncnodonte Convexa
''Pycnodonte'' is a genus of extinct oysters, fossil marine bivalve Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ... mollusks in the family (biology), family Gryphaeidae, the foam oysters or honeycomb oysters. Bivalve shell, Shells of species in this genus are found around the world in fossil shell beds from the Valanginian (140.2 mya (unit), Ma) to the Early Pleistocene (0.781 Ma). They are a commonly found fossil in Cretaceous shellbeds of the Navesink Formation in New Jersey. Species Species within the genus ''Pycnodonte'' include: *''Pycnodonte amakusensis'' Tashiro 1978 † *''Pycnodonte aucella'' (Roemer, 1849) † *''Pycnodonte belli'' (Stephenson, 1941) † *''Pycnodonte brongniarti'' (Bronn 1831) † *''Pycnodonte callifera'' (Lamarck, 1819) † *''Pycn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
