Part II - State of New Jersey

APPENDIX ATIIE CRETACEOTJS REPTILES OF XE\V JERSEYTlie Cretaceons setlilnents of Rcw Jersey have yielded many speciesof vertebrate fossils. During the nineteenth century such ilistinguishe(1paleontologists as Edmarrl Cope, Otliniel 3larsli: anrl Inany otherworkers collected and describcil specimens from t,l~e state.TJnfortnnately for present (lay collectors many of t,lle localit,iesoisitcrl hy tlie above men arc no longer accessible and vertebrate materiallias not been foilnil iin quant,ity in recent years from other localities.Xerertheless, pnleoiitologists sue11 as 11.. Zangerl and S. P.TVclles arc a~liling to our linomledye of Coastal l'lain rertehratr:~tllrongh their monographic studies. Ifany of t,l~e (leseribe(1 species lraveproved invalid on restudy and hare been assignecl to otlier species orliare becn (liscarderl from taxonomy. It is possible that many of t,liespecies listed here arc not valid, hut (leeision must await fnbure worliby conipetent authorities.A list of t,hc Cretaceous repbiles of Se~r. Jersey is appen