| Museum Researchers: |
Principal Investigator Adjunct Curator
Doug Wolfe |
| Location: |
Arizona – New Mexico Border |
| Age: |
Turonian, late Cretaceous, 90 million
years before present |
| Geological Unit: |
Moreno Hills Formation, Dakota
Sandstone, Mancos Shale |
| Discoveries Include: |
Zuniceratops, Nothronychus,
coelurosaur, ornithopod, multituberculate mammal, crocodiles,
several turtles, lizard, garfish, bowfin, petrified wood and other
plant material, ammonites, and other marine invertebrates. |
| Comments: |
Rare examples of middle Cretaceous
dinosaurs with other vertebrates. All new species of dinosaurs
showing connections to Asian dinosaurs faunas.
|
| 2010 |
A New Basal Hadrosauroid (Dinosauria:
Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico. Andrew T. McDonald,
Douglas G. Wolfe, and James I. Kirkland. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 30 (3): 799-812. |
| 2006 |
On a Hadrosauromorph (Dinosauria:
Ornithopoda) from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian)
of New Mexico.
Andrew T. McDonald, Douglas G. Wolfe , and James I. Kirkland. Lucas,
S. G. and Sullivan, R.M., eds., 2006, Late Cretaceous vertebrates
from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and
Science Bulletin 35:277-278. |
| 2005 |
Holotype braincase of Nothronychus
mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (Theropoda: Therizinosauridae)
from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of West-Central New Mexico.
James I. Kirkland, David K. Smith, and Douglas G. Wolfe. The
Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Edited by Kenneth Carpenter (Indiana
University Press, 2005). |
| 2001 |
Preliminary statistical
characterization of a Zuniceratops Bone Bed from the middle
Cretaceous (Turonian) Moreno Hill Formation.
Douglas G. Wolfe, Steve Beekman, Dan McGuiness and Thomas Robira.
Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 8:64. |
| 2001 |
First definitive therizinosaurid
(Dinosauria; Theropoda) from North America. James I. Kirkland and
Douglas G. Wolfe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):410-414.
|
| 2000 |
New information on the skull of
Zuniceratops christopheri, a neoceratopsian dinosaur from
the Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formation, New Mexico. Wolfe, D.G., in
S.G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert, eds, Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New
Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:93-94. |
| 1998 |
Zuniceratops christopheri n.
gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation
(Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. Wolfe, D.G. &
Kirkland, J.I. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 24:
307-317. |
| 1996 |
Vertebrate Fauna form the Moreno Hill
Formation (Late Cretaceous, Turonian) Near the Arizona-New Mexico
Border. Douglas G. Wolfe and Robert K, Denton Jr. (abstract) Fossils
of Arizona Symposium Proceedings 4:109. |
| 1995 |
The Paleoenvironments of Cretaceous
Rocks in East-Central, Arizona. Douglas G. Wolfe. Fossils of Arizona
Symposium Proceedings 3:81-83. |