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Archosauromorphs

* Aff. Rebbachisaurus gastroliths documented.Calvo (1994). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. * The "
Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur The Matanuska Formation consists of more than of Sedimentary rock, sedimentary Stratum, strata exposed in the northern Chugach Mountains, Matanuska Valley, and southern Talkeetna Mountains of South-Central Alaska. The Matanuska Formation contains ...
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, approximately 150 miles northeast of
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. That fall, excavation began, and was resumed in the summer of
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Newly named pseudosuchians


Newly named basal dinosauromorphs


Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.


Birds


Plesiosaurs

* Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.Martin (1994). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.


New taxa


Pterosaurs


New taxa


Other diapsids


New taxa


Footnotes

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References

* Calvo, J.O. (1994). Gastroliths in sauropod dinosaurs. Gaia, 10: 205–208. * Martin, James E.; 1994; Gastric residues in marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale in South Dakota; their bearing on extinction; Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology; 14(3, Suppl.) pp. 36; University of Oklahoma * Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: ''Mesozoic Vertebrate Life''. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219–236. * Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180. 1990s in paleontology
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