Nevada's First Dinosaur

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This publication described a new dinosaur, first for Nevada.  Its a Thescelosaurus type dino called Nevadadromeus schmitti.

Its paywalled but check out the video .

 

 

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https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-the-arizona-nevada-academy-of-science/volume-50/issue-1/036.050.0101/Nevadadromeus-schmitti-gen-et-sp-nov-a-New-Basal-Neornithischian/10.2181/036.050.0101.short?tab=ArticleLink#.Y0mfakMwZC4.twitter

 

 

 

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https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/meet-nevadadromeus-the-first-dinosaur-unique-to-the-silver-state-2588510/

[Oxytropidoceras]

Below are a couple more articles about Nevadadromeus schmitti.

 

Meet Nevadadromeus Schmitti — Nevada's First Homegrown Dinosaur

Kristen Kidman, KNPR, Public Radio, October 4, 2022

 

Why this dinosaur species, unearthed at Valley of Fire, was publicized

13 years later. Las Vegas Sun

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited October 15, 2022 by Oxytropidoceras
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Nevadadromeus is the second occurrence of a non-iguanodont ornithopod in Middle Cretaceous deposits in longitudes of western North America west of Utah, Idaho, and Montana, the other being an incomplete specimen reported by Hilton et al. (1997) from the late Aptian-early Albian age Chickabally Member of the Budden Canyon Formation in Shasta County, northern California, and comprising leg and foot bones. Since the geologic unit that has yielded the ornithopod specimen described by Hilton et al. (1997) is a marine deposit but older than the terrestrial Willow Tank Formation, and another terrestrial Cretaceous unit in Nevada, the Newark Canyon Formation, is of late Aptian-Albian age (Di Fiori et al. 2020) and thus slightly older than the Willow Tank Formation, it is possible that the ornithopod fossil from Shasta County may have been washed out to sea from Nevada via a fluvial stream.

 

Di Fiori, R. V., Long, S. P., Fetrow, A. C., Snell, K. E., Bonde, J. W., and Vervoort, J., 2020. Syncontractional deposition of the cretaceous Newark canyon formation, diamond mountains, Nevada: Implications for strain partitioning within the US Cordillera. Geosphere 16(2): 546-566.

 

Hilton, R. P., Decourten, F. L., Murphy, M. A., Rodda, P. U. and Embree, P. G., 1997. An early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur from California. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 17(3), 557-560.