Editing Woodbury, New Jersey (section)

===Paleontological discovery===
In 1787, a fossil bone recovered in Woodbury from local Cretaceous strata was discussed by the [[American Philosophical Society]] in Philadelphia.<ref name="dinopedia-american">Dodson, Peter (1997). "American Dinosaurs." ''Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs''. Edited by Phillip J. Currie and Kevin Padian. [[Academic Press]]. p. 10-13.</ref> The remains were only retrospectively identified as dinosaurian,<ref name="dinopedia-american" /> as dinosaurs would not be scientifically recognized as a distinct group of reptiles until August 1841.<ref>{{cite book |last=Farlow |first=James O. |author2=M. K. Brett-Surmann |title=The Complete Dinosaur |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1999 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |pages=9 |isbn=0-253-21313-4}}</ref>