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Sweeney, Ian J.; Chin, K.; Hower, James C.; Budd, David A.; Wolfe, Douglas G. (2009). "Fossil wood from the middle
Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formation: Unique expressions of wood mineralization and implications for the processes of wood preservation".
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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.
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Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Denton, Robert K.; Loewen, Mark A.; Brusatte, Stephen L.; Smith, Nathan D.; Turner, Alan H.; Kirkland, James I.; McDonald, Andrew T.; Wolfe, Douglas G. (June 2019).
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Sterling J. Nesbitt; Robert K. Denton Jr; Mark A. Loewen; Stephen L. Brusatte; Nathan D. Smith; Alan H. Turner; James I. Kirkland; Andrew T. McDonald; Douglas G. Wolfe (2019).
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fossil has been reported. Coalified and permineralized fossil wood are also common in this formation, including those of gymnosperms and angiosperms.
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1101:"Middle Turonian and younger Cretaceous rocks, northern Salt Lake coal field, Cibola and Catron Counties, New Mexico"
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J.I., Kirkland; Wolfe, D.G. (2001). "First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North
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1325:"On a hadrosauromorph (Dinosauria: Onithopoda) from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of New Mexico"
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552:Lepisosteus
381:with minor
365:Description
353:in western
261:Moreno Hill
204: /
192:108°45′33″W
179:Coordinates
1529:Categories
1192:: 105422.
1158:: 303–317.
1037:. e10948.
1007:References
887:Paleoflora
876:trionychid
778:Testudines
769:Testudines
705:S. hazelae
355:New Mexico
229:New Mexico
189:34°35′21″N
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351:formation
258:Named for
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967:Vasunum
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