Merchantville
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Merchantville Formation is a geological formation in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, around the time of the Santonian and Campanian age. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 6
Southern shoreline of Raritan Bay : New Jersey - Monmouth 9209 12319 15623 15624 15637 16706 17109 35435 54671 60758 62802 82407 85047 shore of Raritan Bay/Union Beach, at Union, 2.5 miles E of Keyport, Monmouth Co., NJ. Lorillard Company pit?- Hadrosauridae identifié comme Ornithotarsus immanis n. gen. n. sp.
- St. George's spoils piles (Merchantville Fm.) : Delaware - New Castle 12430 40648 54671 spoils piles near St. George's, along N bank of Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, moslty NW of RR crossing
- Ornithomimosauria identifié comme Ornithomimus antiquus
- Hadrosauridae
- USGS Loc. 26403, Graham Brick Co. pits (=Graham Brick Yards, Maple Shade) : New Jersey - Burlington 29725 39861 54671 SPECIFIC LOCATION: Graham Brick Co. pits, Maple Shade, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Dredged material. LAT/LONG: estimated based on Maple Shade, New Jersey.
- 6 miles northwest of Freehold [AMNH + YPM] : New Jersey - Monmouth 54671 82407 85047 "about 6 mi. NW of Freehold", therefore close to Manalapan; 8 km northwest of Freehold near Manalapan–Marlboro township line
- North bank of Chesapeake & Delaware Canal : Delaware - New Castle 12430 54671 75654 82407 Along the north bank of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, ~ 1.2 km east of Summit Bridge
Route 301 and 0.8 km north of Summit Delaware
- Pennsylvania Clay Company pits, Matawan : New Jersey - Monmouth 85047 Pennsylvania Clay Company pits, W side of Matawan Creek, N of Matawan
Publication(s)
La base comprend 18 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 E. D. Cope. 1869. On some reptilian remains. The American Journal of Science, series 2 48:278
- ↑1 E. H. Colbert. 1948. A hadrosaurian dinosaur from New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 100:23-37
- ↑1 R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 (https://doi.org/10.1130/spe40-p1)
- ↑1 E. D. Cope. 1869. [On some specimens of extinct reptiles of interest]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:123
- ↑1 E. D. Cope. 1869. [Concerning a discovery of certain fossil remains found in New Jersey]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11:116-117
- ↑1 A. Prieto-Márquez, D. B. Weishampel, and J. R. Horner. 2006. The dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, from the Campanian of the East Coast of North America, with a reevaluation of the genus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1):77-98
- ↑1 H. W. Miller, Jr. 1955. A check-list of the Cretaceous and Tertiary vertebrates of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 29(5):903-914
- ↑1 E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 (https://doi.org/10.2307/1005355)
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154
- ↑1 W. F. Rapp. 1944. Check list of the fossil reptiles of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 18(3):285-288
- ↑1 H. W. Miller. 1962. Appendix A: the Cretaceous reptiles of New Jersey. The Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey, Part II 61:193-196
- ↑1 2 3 C. D. Brownstein. 2021. Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America. Royal Society Open Science 8:210127 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210127)
- ↑1 2 3 4 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01654.x)
- ↑1 2 3 4 D. Baird and P. M. Galton. 1981. Pterosaur bones from the Upper Cretaceous of Delaware. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):67-71 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1981.10011880)
- ↑1 F. Bukowski. 1980. Cretaceous fossils from New Jersey and Delaware. Earth Science 33(2):55-60
- ↑1 2 W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1993. Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. Journal of Paleontology 67(5):828-849 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000037094)
- ↑1 W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43
- ↑1 S. G. Dalman, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2017. First occurrence of a tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the lower Campanian Merchantville Formation of Delaware, USA. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 16:29-38
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