Re: Questions of Various Kinds

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

Rachel Clark wrote:

> 9) What kinds of dinosaurs are known from New Jersey?

Passaic Fm. (late Triassic/early Jurassic)
  dinosaur footprints
    Atreipus (ornithischian)
    Grallator (small & large, saurischian)

Feltville Fm. (early Jurassic)
  dinosaur footprints
    Anomoepus (ornithischian)
    Eubrontes (saurischian)
    Grallator (small & large)

Towaco Fm. (early Jurassic)
  dinosaur footprints
    Eubrontes
    Grallator (small & large, plus small possibly baby)
    Anomoepus (small; possibly baby)

Boonton Fm. (early Jurassic)
  dinosaur footprints
    Grallator
    Anomoepus

Raritan Fm. (late Cretaceous)
  theropod
    broken toe bone (large theropod)
    footprints (medium-sized theropod)

Merchantville Fm. (late Cretaceous)
  hadrosaurids
    isolated remains

Woodbury Fm. (late Cretaceous)
  hadrosaurs
    Hadrosaurus foulkii
      (the famous nearly complete skeleton found in Haddonfield)
    Ornithotarsus immanis
      (3 specimens of foot bones)

Marshalltown Fm. (late Cretaceous)
  teeth and bone fragments from the following dinosaurs:
    Dryptosaurus aquiliunguis
    indeterminate theropod
    Hypsibema crassicauda
    Hadrosaurus foulkii    
    indeterminate hadrosaurid

Wenonah/Mount Laurel Fm. (late Cretaceous)
  hadrosaurids
  indeterminate nodosaurid
  Coelosaurus
  indeterminate theropod (tooth)

Naversink Fm. (late Cretaceous)
  "Hadrosaurus" minor (partial skeleton)
  indeterminate hadrosaurid (many remains, different locations)
  Diplotomodon horrificus (single tooth)
  Dryptosaurus aquiiunguis (famous Laelaps remains)
  Coelosaurus
  indeterminate nodosaurid.

Hornerstown Fm.
  hadrosaurid (single vertebrate)


--John Schneiderman