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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]
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 ...
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.
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.
North America: Canada: Alberta: 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 ...
Acanthionella † Acanthionella simplex Acanthodesia † Acanthodesia savarti Fossilized teeth of the Permian-Paleocene cartilaginous fish Acrodus † Acrodus † Acrodus humilus Actaeonema † Actaeonema priscum Acteocina † Acteocina canaliculata † Acteocina kirkwoodiana – type locality for species Aetobatus † Aetobatus irregularis † Agabelus – type locality for genus † Agabelus ...
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