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  2. Ellisdale Fossil Site - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of fossil sites - Wikipedia

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    When a type locality is listed as the site for a formation with many good outcrops, the site is flagged with a note ([Note 2]). When a particular site of note is listed for an extensive fossil-bearing formation, but that site is somehow atypical, it is also flagged with a note ([Note 3]).

  4. File:Location map of Mercer County, New Jersey.svg - Wikipedia

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    Updated map to reflect the merger of Princeton Township and Borough in 2012: ... Ellisdale Fossil Site; Ewing Township, New Jersey; First Presbyterian Church (Trenton ...

  5. Marshalltown Formation - Wikipedia

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    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 exposure of this formation.

  6. Millions of ancient fossils were discovered underneath a ...

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    The site's shell bed now accounts for the museum's largest collection of fossil shells. While the shell bed was an exciting find in its own right, the scientists had no idea they had only ...

  7. Category : Cretaceous paleontological sites of North America

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  8. Oldest known species of jellyfish discovered in the Canadian ...

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    Researchers found 182 fossils encased within the rock of the famed Burgess Shale fossil site. The fossils belong to a previously unknown species of jellyfish, called Burgessomedusa phasmiformis ...

  9. The La Brea Tar Pits are full of mysteries. Here are ... - AOL

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    For those who don't know, the La Brea Tar Pits are an internationally recognized geological heritage site, located in the middle of Los Angeles. The site is known for its many fossil quarries ...