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Nodosaurs turn up in Late Cretaceous marine sediments of the east coast, too, from time to time. At 03:01 PM 6/20/2005, you wrote: >I once worked on a hadrosaur from the Moreno Shale in California. >There are, as you probably no, a number of, and maybe many, >hadrosaurs from marine deposits. I was surprised to hear about the >nodosaurs. Haven't been keeping up on that. There are so many >hadrosaurs from marine deposits that some, in the old days, suggested >that they might be marine. They must have, at any rate, spent time at >the seashore or in rivers near their mouth. Thanks for the news. I >guess with just a string of vertebrae it cannot be identified closely >but congratulations. > >P.S. I just bought your new book. Looked exciting. I led collections >of the marine fossils at Red Bird Wyoming. First took Ken Carpenter >there in fact. Great stuff from the Interior Seaway. > >Judith Harris (formerly Van Couvering) > > >On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Mike Everhart wrote: > >>All, >>Earlier this month, a friend of mine found a portion of the tail (9 >>articulated vertebrae) of a dinosaur in the Smoky Hill Chalk. I was >>with him at the time and, although disappointed that I hadn't >>discovered the remains myself, I was pleased to be a part of their >>recovery: >>http://www.oceansofkansas.com/new-dino.html >> >>This is only the sixth dinosaur specimen (and second hadrosaur) to >>come from this marine formation in more than a 130 years (O.C. >>Marsh found the first hadrosaur remains there in 1871). All of the >>others are nodosaurs, including the type of /Niobrarasaurus >>coleii/. The occurrence of dinosaur remains far from shore in the >>Smoky Hill Chalk is a bit of a puzzle because of the distance >>(hundreds of miles) between where they have been found and what was >>thought to be the nearest coast (east) of the Western Interior Sea >>at the time. They must have floated for a long time before reaching >>their final resting place. In this case, burial was somewhat >>hastened by the intervention of a large shark. It's possible that >>these and other remains were carried out to sea in tangled mats of >>trees and vegetation during floods.... >> >>Regards, >> >>Mike Everhart >>Adjunct Curator of Paleontology >>Sternberg Museum of Natural History >>Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS >>www.oceansofkansas.com >> >> >> > > Carl Mehling Fossil Amphibian, Reptile, and Bird Collections Division of Paleontology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West @79th Street New York, NY 10024 (212) 769-5849 Fax: (212) 769-5842 cosm@amnh.org
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