Merchantville Formation

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Merchantville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, late Santonian to early Campanian
Type Geological formation
Underlies Woodbury Formation
Overlies Cheesequake Formation and Magothy Formation [ citation needed ]
Location
Region North America
Country United States
Type section
Named for Merchantville, 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]

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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. 1 2 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. 1 2 "Two New Appalachian Dinosaurs Discovered". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  5. 1 2 3 "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".
  6. ↑ "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".


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