- Source: Marshalltown Formation
The Marshalltown Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
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 an exposure of this formation.
The Marshalltown Formation stretches across southern New Jersey, and is largely composed of marine sediments deposited off the eastern shore of Appalachia, although the Ellisdale site represents a deltaic or estuarine environment, and thus has more of a terrestrial influence.
Vertebrate paleobiota
Dinosaurs known from the formation:
Hypsibema crassicauda
Hadrosaurus sp.
Nodosauridae indet.
Dryptosaurus sp.
Tyrannosauroidea indet.
Dromeosauridae indet.
Theropoda indet.
See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
Footnotes
References
Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Marshalltown Formation
- Tar Heel/Coachman Formation
- Hypsibema
- Ellisdale Fossil Site
- Deinosuchus
- Englishtown Formation
- Cimolomys
- Wenonah Formation
- Parrisia
- List of fossil sites
