The Navesink Formation is a 66 to 70 mya greensand glauconitic marl and sand geological formation in New Jersey. It is known for its Cretaceous period fossil shell beds and dinosaur bones.[1]
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The NavesinkFormation is a 66 to 70 mya greensand glauconitic marl and sand geological formation in New Jersey. It is known for its Cretaceous period...
County Navesink River, an estuary in Monmouth County Navesink Twin Lights, a lighthouse and museum NavesinkFormation, a geological formationNavesink Highlands...
large-bodied Morrison Formation theropod species. Laelaps macropus was also coined by Cope for a partial leg found in the NavesinkFormation that Joseph Leidy...
?†C. elliotti (Casier, 1966) - Maastrichtian of New Jersey, USA (NavesinkFormation) and Early Eocene of England (London Clay) (=Hemirhabdorhynchus elliotti...
was described by Thomas Say in 1820 from a single specimen from the NavesinkFormation in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. The specimen was later illustrated...
is a massive clayey, glauconitic marl that closely resembles the NavesinkFormation into which it grades below. Ammonites and other invertebrates found...
an improperly named taxon of tyrannosauroid coelurosaur from the NavesinkFormation of New Jersey. It was suggested to contain the species, "T." macropus...
The Navesink Highlands, sometimes referred to as the Highlands of Navesink and also known as the Atlantic Highlands, is a range of low hills and upland...
They are a commonly found fossil in Cretaceous shellbeds of the NavesinkFormation in New Jersey. Species within the genus Pycnodonte include: Pycnodonte...
The Sandy Hook Formation is a geologic formation in New Jersey. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. Earth sciences portal New Jersey...
dating to the early Late Cretaceous (Coniacian–Turonian) and from the NavesinkFormation of New Jersey from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), which formed...
unidentified (possibly theropod) footprints in the Middle-Late Triassic Pekin Formation of North Carolina. However, the most reliable early record of North American...
Dromiceiomimus species: Dromiceiomimus samueli. Two tibiae from the NavesinkFormation of New Jersey were named Coelosaurus antiquus ("antique hollow lizard")...
indetermine neochoristoderes were described from several sites from the NavesinkFormation of New Jersey, marking the first known occurrence of neochoristoderes...
an illustration of a Protosphyraena tooth from the Cretaceous-aged NavesinkFormation of New Jersey (Maastrichtian), but mistakenly identified it as having...
swordfish-like bony fish Protosphyraena has been preserved in the NavesinkFormation. The turtle Bothremys also lived in New Jersey during the Cretaceous...
to the elasmobranch fauna from the late Cretaceous of New Jersey (lower NavesinkFormation, early Maastrichtian). Palaeovertebrata 2004, 33, 1–16 v t e...
which the same formation is exposed. Such sites may have separate entries if they are considered to be more notable than the formation as a whole. In...
of the Hornerstown Formation, but they might be younger and postdate the Mesozoic, or even from the slightly older NavesinkFormation, as these deposits...
the Red Bank Formation. Several layers below that is the glauconitic marl of the NavesinkFormation. Both of these geologic formations are from the Late...
specimen of Halisaurus platyspondylus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the NavesinkFormation (Maastrichtian) of New Jersey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
and University of Kansas Press. Cobban, W.A. 1974. Ammonites from the NavesinkFormation at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey; USGS Prof Paper 845 v t e...
Egypt Formation (New Jersey), which is Maastrichtian in age. Important subsequent specimens include NJSM 12146 (an incomplete cranium from the Navesink Formation...
few non-avian dinosaur genera includes Mesozoic stratigraphic units of formation rank or higher that have produced dinosaur body fossils which have been...
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