The Raritan Formation is a Cretaceous (Turonian) sedimentary geologic formation of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
The formation is described in the USGS publication Tolchester folio, Maryland (1917) as follows: Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.
[4] Many plant fossils have been recovered from the Raritan.
[1] The formation hosts the New Jersey Amber deposits.
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