Marshalltown Formation
Topic: Earth
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| Marshalltown Formation Stratigraphic range: Middle to late Campanian | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Wenonah Formation |
| Overlies | Englishtown Formation |
The Marshalltown Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Dinosaurs known from the formation:[2][3]
- Hypsibema crassicauda
- Hadrosaurus sp.
- Nodosauridae indet.
- Dryptosaurus sp.
- Tyrannosauroidea indet.
- Dromeosauridae indet.
- Theropoda indet.
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
Footnotes
- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ Brownstein, Chase D. (2018). "The distinctive theropod assemblage of the Ellisdale site of New Jersey and its implications for North American dinosaur ecology and evolution during the Cretaceous" (in en). Journal of Paleontology 92 (6): 1115–1129. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.42. ISSN 0022-3360.
- ↑ Brownstein, Chase D. (2018-02-08). "The biogeography and ecology of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs of Appalachia" (in en). Palaeontologia Electronica 21 (1): 1–56. doi:10.26879/801. ISSN 1094-8074. https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2018/2123-appalachia-biogeography.
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.
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