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Merchantville Formation

Merchantville Formation

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The Merchantville Formation is a geological formation in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, around the time of the Santonian and Campanian age.[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]

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    Doran Brownstein, Chase (2021). "Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (8): 210127. Bibcode:2021RSOS....810127D. doi:10.1098/rsos.210127. PMC 8385347. PMID 34457333.
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    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.
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    Brownstein, Chase D. (2017-07-20). "A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia". doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.3097v3. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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    "Two New Appalachian Dinosaurs Discovered | Paleontology | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
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    "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database".
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