Mount Laurel
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Mount Laurel Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation located in New Jersey and Delaware. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. Dinosaur teeth recovered from this formation include tyrannosauroid teeth similar to those of Dryptosaurus, as well as teeth from a ~3-4m saurornitholestine dromaeosaurid.
Other fossils include: Belemnites in the genus Belemnitella, Oysters such as Exogyra and Pycnodonte, and rare mosasaur, turtle, and plesiosaur remains.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 6
Upper Hop Brook, Holmdel : New Jersey - Monmouth 2163 39861 54671 85047 1 mi SE of Crawford's Corner, Upper Hop Brook, Holmdel- Big Brook (Wenonah/Mt. Laurel) : New Jersey - Monmouth 1580 39861 54671 73432 85047 On Boundary Rd in Marlboro
- Ornithomimosauria identifié comme Ornithomimus antiquus
- Hadrosauridae
- Tyrannosauroidea
- pits on east side of Route 34, Holmdel : New Jersey - Monmouth 39861 54671 series of pits on E side of Rte. 34, Holmdel, 1-2 mi. S of Matawan
- Pits of Benjamin Biggs, near Summit Bridge (Mount Laurel Fm.) : Delaware - New Castle 14442 35435 54671 Pits of Benjamin Biggs, near Summit Bridge
- Big Brook (Mt. Laurel) : New Jersey - Monmouth 14123 54671 61316 85047 On Boundary Rd in Marlboro, including tributary known as "Coelurus Run" (error in name, refers to Coelosaurus).
- Hadrosauridae
- Ornithomimosauria identifié comme Coelosaurus antiquus n. sp.
- Burlington County, Mt. Laurel (NJSM) : New Jersey - Burlington 73432
Publication(s)
La base comprend 10 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 D. W. Krause and D. Baird. 1979. Late Cretaceous Mammals East of the North American Western Interior Seaway. Journal of Paleontology 53(3):562-565
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154
- ↑1 2 3 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01654.x)
- ↑1 W. B. Gallagher, D. C. Parris, and E. E. Spamer. 1986. Paleontology, biostratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the New Jersey coastal plain. The Mosasaur 3:1-35
- ↑1 2 3 C. D. Brownstein. 2019. New records of theropods from the latest Cretaceous of New Jersey and the Maastrichtian Appalachian fauna. Royal Society Open Science 6:191206:1-13 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191206)
- ↑1 2 O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.21745)
- ↑1 E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 (https://doi.org/10.2307/1005355)
- ↑1 2 J. Leidy. 1865. Cretaceous reptiles of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 192:1-135 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39830)
- ↑1 D. C. Parris, B. S. Grandstaff, and W. B. Gallagher. 2004. A lungfish (dipnoan) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. The Mosasaur 7:65-68
Galerie d'image
Pas d'image.