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53 N. Macdonald
Mesa, AZ 85201
Phone:
480-644-2230
E-mail |
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Zuni Basin Paleontological Project
Quarry operation at Zuniceratops site.
Reconstructed skull of Zuniceratops. |
A humerus (upper arm bone) is unearthed
at the quarry. |
| 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.
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Publications from Zuni Basin Paleontological
Project
| 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. |
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