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Merchantville Formation

Merchantville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, late Santonian to early Campanian
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesWoodbury Formation
OverliesCheesequake Formation and Magothy Formation[citation needed]
Location
RegionNorth America
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forMerchantville, New Jersey

The Merchantville Formation is a geological formation in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, around the time of the Santonian and Campanian age.[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]

Vertebrate fauna

See also

References

  1. ^ Doran Brownstein, Chase (2021). "Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (8) 210127. Bibcode:2021RSOS....810127D. doi:10.1098/rsos.210127. PMC 8385347. PMID 34457333.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Brownstein, Chase D. (2017-11-30). "A tyrannosauroid metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of Delaware increases the diversity of non-tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroids on Appalachia". PeerJ. 5 e4123. doi:10.7717/peerj.4123. PMC 5712462.
  4. ^ a b "Two New Appalachian Dinosaurs Discovered". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  5. ^ a b c "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".
  6. ^ "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".


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