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{{Short description|Geological Formation in the United States}}
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| name = Merchantville Formation
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| type = [[Geological formation]]
| age = [[Late Cretaceous]], late [[Santonian]] to early [[Campanian]]
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| namedfor = [[Merchantville, New Jersey|Merchantville]], New Jersey
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| region = [[North America]]
| country = [[United States]]
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| underlies = [[Woodbury Formation]]
| overlies = [[Cheesequake Formation]] and [[Magothy Formation]]{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
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|period=Late Cretaceous
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The '''Merchantville Formation''' is a geological [[Formation (geology)|formation]] in the northeastern United States whose strata date back to the [[Late Cretaceous]], around the time of the [[Santonian]] and [[Campanian]] age.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Doran Brownstein|first=Chase|title=Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America|journal=Royal Society Open Science|year=2021|volume=8|issue=8|pages=210127|doi=10.1098/rsos.210127|pmid=34457333|pmc=8385347|bibcode=2021RSOS....810127D}}</ref> Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="cretaceousdistribution">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}}.</ref>

==Vertebrate fauna==
* [[Tyrannosauroidea]] ([[Dryptosauridae]]) indet. (="Cryptotyrannus")<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brownstein|first=Chase D.|date=2017-07-20|title=A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia|url=https://peerj.com/preprints/3097|language=en|doi=10.7287/peerj.preprints.3097v3|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="sci-news.com">{{Cite web|title=Two New Appalachian Dinosaurs Discovered {{!}} Paleontology {{!}} Sci-News.com|url=http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/two-new-appalachian-dinosaurs-10006.html|access-date=2021-08-28|website=Breaking Science News {{!}} Sci-News.com|date=27 August 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Hadrosauridae]] indet. (="Atlantohadros")<ref name=PaleoDB2>{{cite web | url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=88610 | title=Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database }}</ref><ref name="sci-news.com"/>
* [[Hadrosaurus|''Hadrosaurus'' ''foulkii'']]<ref name="cretaceousdistribution" />
* ''[[Bothremys|Bothremys cooki]]''<ref name="PaleoDB2" />
* ''[[Mosasaurus]]'' sp.<ref name=PaleoDB2/>
* [[Ornithomimidae]] indet.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=46566 | title=Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database }}</ref>
* ''[[Pteranodon]]'' sp?

==See also==
{{Portal|Earth sciences|Paleontology|Dinosaurs||}}
* [[List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Cretaceous Maryland]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Delaware]]
[[Category:Cretaceous geology of New Jersey]]

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Merchantville Formation - Revision history

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