Hadrosauroid Material from the Santonian Milk River Formation of Southern Alberta, Canada

Title
Hadrosauroid Material from the Santonian Milk River Formation of Southern Alberta, Canada
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Larson, Derek W
Campione, Nicolas E
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4205-9794
Email: ncampion@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ncampion
Brown, Caleb M
Evans, David C
Ryan, Michael J
Editor
Editor(s): David A Eberth and David C Evans
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Place of publication
Bloomington, United States of America
Edition
1
Series
Life of the Past
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/27867
Abstract
The first hadrosauroid remains from the Santonian Milk River Formation are described here and include a right frontal, partial left jugal, right surangular, fragmentary right quadrate, dentary, teeth, and postcranial elements. When considered within a phylogenetic context, this material indicates the presence in this formation of at least one non-lambeosaurine hadrosaurid, possibly with close affinities to the approximately contemporaneous Lophorhothon from southeastern North America. The material described here represents the only geographic occurrence of Santonian hadrosaurids from the northern part of the Western Interior Basin. Given the putative occurrence of latitudinally arrayed northern and southern dinosaur “provinces” on Laramidia during the late Campanian, the Milk River Formation fauna has implications for understanding the origin of the faunal differentiation that occurred later in the Cretaceous.
Link
Citation
Hadrosaurs, p. 136-152
ISBN
9780253013903
9780253013859
0253013909
0253013852
Start page
136
End page
152

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