Merchantville Formation

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]

Vertebrate fauna

• Tyrannosauroidea (Dryptosauridae) indet. (="Cryptotyrannus")[3][4]
• Hadrosauridae indet. (="Atlantohadros")[5][4]
• Hadrosaurus foulkii[2]
• Bothremys cooki[5]
• Mosasaurus sp.[5]
• Ornithomimidae indet.[6]
• Pteranodon. sp?

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

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. 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. (2017-07-20). "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}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. "Two New Appalachian Dinosaurs Discovered | Paleontology | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
5. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".
6. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".