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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ]
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 ...
This is a list of U.S. state dinosaurs in the United States, including the District of Columbia.Many states also have dinosaurs as state fossils, or designate named avian dinosaurs (List of U.S. state birds), but this list only includes those that have been officially designated as "state dinosaurs".