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First Dinosaur Fossils From Georgia, With Notes On Additional Cretaceous Vertebrates From The State, David R. Schwimmer
First Dinosaur Fossils From Georgia, With Notes On Additional Cretaceous Vertebrates From The State, David R. Schwimmer
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New Collections of Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) vertebrate fossils from Stewart County, Georgia, contain isolated bones from two dinosaur taxa: a hadrossaur (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) of undetermined genus, and tyrannosaur (Saurischia, Theropoda) comparable to Albertosaurus. Numerous individuals are represented in the collections. The fossils are found at the upper formational contact of the Blufftown Formation but appear to be redeposited from lower down in the unit. These dinosaur fossils probably represent shore-living or river-transported animals preserved in back-barrier or estuarine pericontinental marine environments of deposition.