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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]
The Marshalltown Formation is a Late Cretaceous -aged geologic formation in New Jersey and Delaware, US. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. It contains the most extensive Campanian-aged dinosaur fauna from New Jersey and Delaware. [1] [2]
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 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 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 ]
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.
[1] District of Columbia: Capitalsaurus is the state dinosaur of Washington D.C., but the District has not chosen a state fossil. Florida: There is no state fossil in Florida, though agatised coral, which is a fossil, is the state stone. Hawaii; Iowa: The crinoid was proposed in 2018. [2] Minnesota: The giant beaver was proposed in 2022. [3]
Ellisdale, New Jersey, United States, an unincorporated community; Ellisdale Fossil Site, ... This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, ...