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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 stretches across southern New Jersey to northern Delaware, and is largely composed of marine sediments deposited off the eastern shore of Appalachia, although the Ellisdale site represents a deltaic or estuarine environment reminiscent of the modern Albemarle Sound, and thus has more of a terrestrial influence.
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.
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 ...
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
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 ]
People first uncovered fossils around San Pedro High School in 1936. They were ancient shells belonging to snails and other mollusks from tens of thousands of years ago.