Woodbury Formation

Woodbury Formation
Stratigraphic range: Campanian, 80.5–78.5 Ma

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Type	Geological formation
Underlies	Englishtown Formation
Overlies	Merchantville Formation
Location
Region	New Jersey
Country	United States

The Woodbury Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in New Jersey, United States.

Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Using radio isotope dating of bivalve shells, the formation has been dated to between 80.5 and 78.5 million years ago.^[2]

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.
↑ Gallagher, W.B. (2005). "Recent mosasaur discoveries from New Jersey and Delaware, USA: stratigraphy, taphonomy and implications for mosasaur extinction." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 84(3): 241.

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