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    Xiphactinus (category Salamanca Formation)
    Xiphactinus fossil was discovered during the 1850s in the Niobrara Chalk), and Cretaceous formations all over the East Coast (most notably Georgia, Alabama...
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    JSTOR 3626742. Stewart, J. D. 1990. Niobrara Formation vertebrate stratigraphy. pp. 19–30 in Bennett, S. C. (ed.), Niobrara Chalk Excursion Guidebook, The...
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    nyctosaurid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of what is now the Niobrara Formation of the mid-western United States, which, during the time Nyctosaurus...
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    Enchodus (category Santa Lucía Formation)
    which are common from the Niobrara Chalk, the Mooreville Chalk Formation, the Pierre Shale, and other geological formations deposited within the Western...
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    paleontologist George F. Sternberg in 1952 from the lower portion of the Niobrara Formation. The fossils of the animal looked similar to those of the species...
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  • 2006 that a nearly complete skeleton of S. apicalis in the Upper Niobrara Formation was discovered by Dave Palmquist, along the bank of the Missouri River...
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    Limestone of Colorado, Niobrara Formation of Kansas & South Dakota), and Maastrichtian of the Netherlands & Belgium (both Maastricht Formation) C. anceps, C....
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    is about 3,138 feet (956m) thick at the type locality. It overlies the Niobrara division and underlies the Fox Hills beds. It was named for an occurrence...
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    Cretoxyrhina (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of some exceptionally well-preserved skeletons of the shark in the Niobrara Formation in West Kansas. Charles H. Sternberg discovered the first skeleton...
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  • doi:10.1080/08912960701642949. "Camadas de Alcobaça." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 548-549. "Almond Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 584. "Early...
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    Woodbine Formation, Navesink Formation, Ellisdale Fossil Site, Mooreville Chalk Formation, Demopolis Chalk Formation, Black Creek Group and the Niobrara Formation...
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    rock outcroppings: The Dakota Formation (sandstone), the Greenhorn Limestone, and the Niobrara Chalk. The Dakota Formation forms the eastern region. This...
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    species of Apateodus (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas, U.S.A." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29...
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    Harrison, Nebraska. The main features of the monument are a valley of the Niobrara River and the fossils found on Carnegie Hill and University Hill. The area...
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    this taxon were first described from the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation of Kansas (Late Coniacian-Early Campanian), and additional material...
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    Chalk (section Formation)
    and Niobrara Formations of the North American interior. Chalk is also found in western Egypt (Khoman Formation) and western Australia (Miria Formation)....
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    biofuels. It has few fossil-fuel resources except for crude oil from the Niobrara Formation which underlays a portion of the state's western region. It hosts...
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    Plesiosaur (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    contents of a Tylosaurus proriger (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Formation of western Kansas". The Mosasaur. 7: 41–46. Williston, Samuel Wendel;...
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  • the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. Paleontology portal Fish portal Prehistoric fish List of prehistoric bony fish TAVERNE, Louis (2001). "Révision de Syntegmodus...
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    down, shedding their sand across the landscape. Chalk beds of the Niobrara Formation were deposited at this time, and accretion of crustal fragments continued...
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  • fossil from the Niobrara Formation in Kansas (United States). Other fish belonging to the same family found in the same formation are Niobrara and Pentanogmius...
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    Its fossils are best known from the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation of Kansas (Late Coniacian-Early Campanian). Protosphyraena was...
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  • species of Apateodus (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas, U.S.A." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29...
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    Barnett, Montney, Haynesville, Marcellus, and most recently the Eagle Ford, Niobrara and Utica shales are drilled horizontally through the producing intervals...
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    which are found in outcrops of the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Formation within Gove County, Kansas. They are typically associated with thin...
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    and El Zadorra Formation, Spain Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation, the United Kingdom Niobrara Formation, New Mexico, United States Note the oyster encrustation...
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  • Thescelosaurus (category Laramie Formation)
    small herbivorous dinosaur along Doegie Creek in Niobrara County, Wyoming, in rocks of the Lance Formation. The skeleton was found lying on its left side...
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    Sandhills (Nebraska) (category Geologic formations of Nebraska)
    sections of the region are drained by tributaries of the Loup River and the Niobrara River, while the western section is largely composed of small interior...
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  • Research history of Tylosaurus (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the catalog number MCZ 4374, was recovered from a deposit of the Niobrara Formation located in the vicinity of Monument Rocks near the Union Pacific Railroad...
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  • List of North American dinosaurs (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Mehl, M. G. 1936. Hierosaurus coleii: a new aquatic dinosaur from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific...
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