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53 N. Macdonald
Mesa, AZ 85201
Phone:
480-644-2230
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Fort Crittenden Formation Paleontological Project
The fauna of the Fort
Crittenden Formation.
| Museum
Researchers: |
Principal
Investigator Curator Dr. Robert McCord
Gavin McCullough |
| Location: |
Southeast
Arizona |
| Age: |
Campanian, late
Cretaceous, 75 million years before present
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| Geological
Unit: |
Fort Crittenden
Formation |
| Discoveries
Include: |
Tyrannosaurs,
titanosaurs, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians,
crocodiles, a lizard, several types of
turtles, garfish, bowfin, clams, snails, and
petrified wood. |
| Comments: |
A wonderful
glimpse of an ancient community in Arizona.
Fossils from this site allow comparison to
how southern Arizona was similar to and
different from other sites in North America
at this time. |
Publications from Fort Crittenden Paleontological
Project
| 2005 |
Cretaceous
Vertebrates of Arizona.
Robert McCord and David Gillette. Vertebrate
Paleontology of Arizona, Mesa Southwest
Museum Bulletin 11: 94-103. |
| 2001 |
Investigating
the correlation of stratigraphy and fossil
taxa in the Fort Crittenden fauna using GIS.
Erin Schirtzinger. Mesa Southwest Museum
Bulletin 8:74. |
| 2001 |
Ongoing
research in the late Cretaceous Fort
CrittendenFormation, southeastern Arizona:
the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna.
Robert McCord, Gavin McCullough, B.J.
Tegowski, John Paul Hodnett and Robert
Scarborough. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin
8: 65-71. |
| 1996 |
Fossil mollusks
from the late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden
Formation, Adobe Canyon, Arizona.
Robert McCord and Laura Markiewicz.
Proceedings of the Fossils of Arizona
Symposium. 4:111-114. |
Fossil prospecting.
Writing field notes and
recording location data.
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