Mount Laurel Formation
Mount Laurel Formation Stratigraphic range: late Campanian to early Maastrichtian | |
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Type | Geological formation |
Underlies | Navesink Formation |
Overlies | Wenonah Formation |
Location | |
Region | New Jersey |
Country | United States |
The Mount Laurel Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation located in New Jersey. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1] Dinosaur teeth recovered from this formation include tyrannosauroid teeth similar to those of Dryptosaurus, as well as teeth from a ~3-4m saurornitholestine dromaeosaurid.[2]
See also[]
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes[]
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ Brownstein, C.D. (2019). New records of theropods from the latest Cretaceous of New Jersey and the Maastrichtian Appalachian fauna. Royal Society Open Science, 6(11): 191206
References[]
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Categories:
- Cretaceous geology of New Jersey
- Cretaceous Delaware
- United States geologic formation stubs