Moreno Hill Formation

Moreno Hill Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Location
Region North America

The Moreno Hill Formation is a geological formation in New Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Moreno Hill Formation
Taxa Presence Description Images

Clade:

An unnamed small coelurosaur, dromaeosaur, and tyrannosaur.[2]

Clade:

  1. J. rugoculus

An basal hadrosauromorph.[3]

Genus:

  1. N. mckinleyi

A therizinosaur.[4] "Teeth, fragmentary skull bones, cervical and other vertebrae, scapula, partial forelimb and hindlimb."[5]

Genus:

  1. Z. christopheri

A ceratopsian.[6] "Partial cranial and postcranial materials of five individuals."[7]

See also

References

  1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 574-588. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  2. Denton, R., Ranson, W.V., Nesbitt, S., Wolfe, D.G., and Holtz, T. (2004). "A new small theropod dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Turonian, Upper Cretaceous) of New Mexico." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24(sup. 3): 52A.
  3. McDonald, A.T., Wolfe, D.G., and Kirkland, J.I. (2006). "On a hadrosauromorph (Dinosauria: Onithopoda) from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of New Mexico." Pp. 277-280 in Lucas, S.G. and Sullivan, R.M. (eds.), Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 35.
  4. Kirkland, J.I., and Wolfe, D.G. (2001). "First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North America." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(3): 410-414.
  5. "Table 7.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 152.
  6. Wolfe, D.G. and Kirkland, J.I. (1998). "Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico." Pp. 303-317 in Lucas, S.G., Kirkland, J.I., Estep, J.W. (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin, 14.
  7. "Table 22.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 480.