Moreno Hill
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Moreno Hill Formation is a geological formation in western New Mexico whose strata were deposited in the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The age of the formation is dated between approximately 90.9 to 88.6 million years ago based on detrital zircons.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 6
Haystack Butte, MSM 98-78 : New Mexico - Catron 13832 13881 18012 19431 80958 MSM 98-78, southern Zuni Basin- Haystack Butte, MSM 98-79 : New Mexico - Catron 13881 MSM 98-79, southern Zuni Basin
- Haystack Butte, MSM 98-65 : New Mexico - Catron 13881 MSM 98-65, southern Zuni Basin
- Mirror Mesa (MSM Loc. 98-67) : New Mexico - Catron 13881 70289 southern Zuni Basin, Quemado 30x60 Quadrangle
- Two Rocks Balanced (MSM loc 98-61) : New Mexico - Catron 13881 26638 32770 southern Zuni Basin; "MSM Locality No. 98-61, Catron County, New Mexico, U.S.A."
- Two Rocks Balanced tracksite (NMMNH L-6736) : New Mexico - Catron 25991 southern Zuni Basin, about 1 mi from the Nothronychus/Zuniceratops localities, in the "Two Rocks Balanced" outcrop area
Publication(s)
La base comprend 9 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 D. G. Wolfe and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:307-317
- ↑1 J. I. Kirkland and D. G. Wolfe. 2001. First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):410-414 (https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0410:fdtdtf]2.0.co;2)
- ↑1 D. G. Wolfe. 2000. New information on the skull of Zuniceratops christopheri, a neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formation, New Mexico. Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:93-94
- ↑1 J. I. Kirkland, D. K. Smith, and D. G. Wolfe. 2005. Holotype braincase of Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (Theropoda; Therizinosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
- ↑1 L. E. Zanno. 2010. A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(4):503-543 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2010.488045)
- ↑1 S. J. Nesbitt, R. K. Denton, and M. A. Loewen, S. L. Brusatte, N. D. Smith, A. H. Turner, J. I. Kirkland, A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe. 2019. A mid-Cretaceous tyrannosauroid and the origin of North American end-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(6):892-899 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0888-0)
- ↑1 A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and J. I. Kirkland. 2006. On a hadrosauromorph (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of New Mexico. In: S. G. Lucas & R. M. Sullivan, Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:277-280
- ↑1 A. T. McDonald, D. G. Wolfe, and J. I. Kirkland. 2010. A new basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):799-812 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724631003763516)
- ↑1 2 D. G. Wolfe. 2006. Theropod dinosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Moreno Hill Formation of New Mexico. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:115-117
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