Merchantville Formation

The Merchantville Formation is a geological formation in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Merchantville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, early Campanian
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesWoodbury Formation
OverliesCheesequake Formation and Magothy Formation
Location
RegionNorth America
Country United States
Type section
Named forMerchantville, New Jersey

Vertebrate fauna
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See also
  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References
  1. 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.
  2. Brownstein CD. (2017) A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3097v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3097v3
  3. http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=88610
  4. http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=46566


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