Dinosaurs of the eastern US

[Jdeutsch]

I remember, as a child, reading about the first dinosaur found in the USA, someplace in New Jersy

I really don't hear much about dinsaur excavations in the east. Seems like the eroded areas of the west have gotten most of the attention.

What kind of dinosaur research is going on in the old Appalacia? Where are the hot spots?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia_(Mesozoic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Appalachian_dinosaurs

[Troodon]

Two books that go into your topic.

Dinosaurs of the East Coast

by David B. Weishampel (Author), Luther Young (Author)

When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey 1st Edition

by William B. Gallagher (Author)

Research continues has new discoveries are identified.

Paper from SVP

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF TYRANNOSAUROID FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS

(MIDDLE CAMPANIAN) DEMOPOLIS FORMATION OF ALABAMA

THOMAS D. CARR, THOMAS E. WILLIAMSON AND DAVID R. SCHWIMMER

Paper on a Dryptosaurus dig in NJ

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6117&ved=0ahUKEwjkivady6zMAhVN7mMKHU2ZDpEQFggbMAA&usg=AFQjCNGzfcD9EHkdRjRMtefORl1javkIDA&sig2=b4CQ6MlXBJjSTovjmmu-uQ

Edited April 26, 2016 by Troodon

[Fossildude19]

Dinosaur remains here in the east are rarely preserved.

Their tracks are well known and documented, but skeletal remains are scarce.

Bits and pieces have been found here and there - some in New Jersey, and some elsewhere.

I know of two theropod teeth found here in Connecticut. ( Similar to Coelophysis.)

A few bones, and some body impressions found in the Connecticut River Valley.

Also, a baby nodosaur found in Maryland.

For whatever reason, the bones are just not as numerous as they are out west.

Regards,

[Parthicus]

The first reasonably complete dinosaur skeletal material in North America was a partial skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii, found in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1858. I know that because I grew up in that town, about 1 mile from the original dig site. (The site is marked by a plaque and is still accessible, but the only fossils left there are some shells that break up easily.) There's also a statue elsewhere in the town. There's a website at hadrosaurus.com with photos and more information.

I've read the "When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey" book and second the recommendation. There's a stream site at Ellisdale, New Jersey that is still being studied by paleontologists and has yielded some fragmentary dinosaur material, as well as other important terrestrial vertebrates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellisdale_Fossil_Site

There's also the former Inversand Marl Pit (now Rowan University Fossil Park) in Mantua Township, New Jersey, a marine site which has yielded a few scattered dinosaur remains (probably bits of bloated carcasses that floated out to sea and fell apart).