Potomac Group
The Potomac Group is a geologic group in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. An indeterminate tyrannosauroid and Priconodon crassus, a nodosaurid, are known from indeterminate sediments belonging to the Potomac Group. The Potomac Group was initially believed to have been Late Jurassic in age by Othniel Charles Marsh but later studies, such as Clark (1897), have found that the Potomac Group is in fact Early-Late Cretaceous (Aptian-Turonian) in age.
| Potomac Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous, | |
| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | Patuxent Formation, Arundel Formation, Patapsco Formation, Raritan Formation, Potomac Formation (?) |
| Underlies | Raritan Formation, Magothy Formation |
| Overlies | Boonton Formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia |
| Country | United States |
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