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The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.The site has produced the largest and most diverse fauna of Late Cretaceous terrestrial animals from eastern North America, including the type specimens of the teiid lizard Prototeius stageri [1] and the batrachosauroidid salamander Parrisia neocesariensis. [2]
This list of the prehistoric life of New Jersey contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of New Jersey. Precambrian [ edit ]
It contains the most extensive Campanian-aged dinosaur fauna from New Jersey and Delaware. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The famous Ellisdale Fossil Site , a konzentrat-lagerstätten which contains one of the most diverse Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages (likely rapidly buried in a massive flood event) known from eastern North America/former Appalachia , is an ...
New Jersey was ranked 13th among states where the most fossils have been found. Here are some fun facts about our state's dinosaur history.
The sediments and fossils of the New Jersey coastal plain were among the first to attract the attention of early students of American geology starting around 1820.
This list of the Cenozoic life of New Jersey contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of New Jersey and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
Ellisdale Fossil Site [Note 3] Marshalltown Formation: Cretaceous (Campanian) North America: US: New Jersey [Note 1] Ochillee Creek at Old Ochillee [Note 2] Eutaw Formation: Cretaceous: North America: US: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi: Dinosaur, mosasaur, and pterosaur: Falls of the Ohio [Note 3] Jefferson Limestone: Devonian: North America: US ...
The coldest month on record was February 1934, when New Jersey's average temperature was 17.2 degrees, according to state records. Still, 1904 stands as the coldest year on record in New Jersey.