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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 fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
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.
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 ...
Ellisdale may refer to: Ellisdale, New Jersey, United States, an unincorporated community; Ellisdale Fossil Site, a fossil bed near Ellisdale
A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The ...
Ellisdale Fossil Site, Marshalltown Formation, Monmouth County, New Jersey Parrisia neocesariensis is an extinct species of batrachosauroidid salamander. †Scotiophryne †Scotiophryne pustulosa; 125–60.5 Ma, Aptian to Selandian Hell Creek Formation, Montana, USA Mexico Saskatchewan, Canada; A little-known frog.
Workers at the Montbrook fossil site, just two hours north of Tampa, are sifting through clues to Florida's past.