Merchantville Formation

The Merchantville Formation is a geological formation in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Merchantville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, early Campanian
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesWoodbury Formation
OverliesCheesequake Formation and Magothy Formation
Location
RegionNorth America
Country United States
Type section
Named forMerchantville, New Jersey

Vertebrate fauna

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

  1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 574-588. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  2. Brownstein, Chase D. (2017-07-20). "A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia". doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.3097v3. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=88610
  4. http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=46566


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.