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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]
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 ...
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 ]
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.
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. Some dino-mite facts about New Jersey's dinosaur history
Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The famous Ellisdale Fossil Site , a konzentrat-lagerstätten which contains one of the most diverse Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages known from eastern North America (likely rapidly buried in a massive flood event), is ...
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.
Environmental education center operated by the New Jersey Audubon Society, almost 1000 acres, 5 miles of trails, 50-acre McCormack Lake Poricy Park Nature Center: Middletown: Monmouth: Shore Region: 250-acre (100 ha) nature preserve and park, known for its Cretaceous era fossil shell beds Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area: Montville ...