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Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Blufftown Formation in western Georgia and eastern Alabama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

David R. Schwimmer ,
G. Dent Williams ,
James L. Dobie  and
William G. Siesser
David R. Schwimmer
Affiliation:
1Department of Chemistry and Geology, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia 31907-2079
G. Dent Williams
Affiliation:
1Department of Chemistry and Geology, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia 31907-2079
James L. Dobie
Affiliation:
2Department of Zoology and Wildlife Science, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5414
William G. Siesser
Affiliation:
3Department of Geology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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Abstract

Fragmentary bones and teeth of three Late Cretaceous dinosaur taxa occur along both sides of the Georgia-Alabama border, in the extreme southeastern Coastal Plain Province. The localities lie in the middle and upper Blufftown Formation, in nearshore marine deposits. Exogyra ssp. and calcareous nannofossils give a late Santonian through mid-Campanian age range. Taxa determined are: Hadrosauridae, genus and species indeterminate; Ornithomimidae, genus and species indeterminate; and Albertosaurus? sp.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , March 1993 , pp. 288 - 296
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