The Merchantville Formation is a geological
formation
Formation may refer to:
Linguistics
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Mathematics and science
* Cave formation or speleothem, a secondary ...
in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the
Late Cretaceous, around the time of the
Santonian and
Campanian age. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
[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. .]
Vertebrate fauna
*
Tyrannosauroidea (
Dryptosauridae) indet. (="Cryptotyrannus")
*
Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurids (), or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae. This group is known as the duck-billed dinosaurs for the flat duck-bill appearance of the bones in their snouts. The ornithopod family, which includ ...
indet. (="Atlantohadros")
*
''Hadrosaurus'' ''foulkii''
* ''
Bothremys cooki''
* ''
Mosasaurus'' sp.
[
* Ornithomimidae indet.]
See also
* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
References
Cretaceous Maryland
Cretaceous Delaware
Cretaceous geology of New Jersey
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