Ellisdale Fossil Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Ellisdale Fossil Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The site has produced the largest and most diverse fauna of Late Cretaceous terrestrial animals from eastern North America, including the type specimens of the teiid lizard Prototeius stageri and the batrachosauroidid salamander Parrisia neocesariensis. The site occurs within the basal portion of the Marshalltown Formation, and dates from the Campanian Stage of the Late Cretaceous.B. S. Grandstaff, D. C. Parris, R. K. Denton, Jr. and W. B. Gallagher. 1992. Alphadon (Marsupialia) and Multituberculata (Allotheria) in the Cretaceous of eastern North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):217-222 The site is classified as a Konzentrat-Lagerstätten resulting from a prehistoric coastal storm.Denton, R. K. Jr, O'Neill, R. C., and B. S. Grandstaff. 2004. The Appearance of Atlantic Coastal Storms, Evidence from the Ellisdale Dinosaur Site, Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of New Jersey. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 117 Read more on Wikipedia
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