Louisianaâs First Dinosaur

["Paul H." <oxytropidoceras@cox.net>]

Louisianaâs first dinosaur fossil was found in 2004 at 
the TVOR SE vertebrate fossil location in Fort Polk, 
Vernon Parish, Louisiana, as discussed and illustrated
by Schiebout et al. (2004).  The fossils found at this
location include a wide variety of fossil Miocene 
vertebrates and reworked Cretaceous foraminifera.
The lone dinosaur fossil, LSUMG 12229, is a âsmall, 
sharp theropod toothâ that is consistent of having 
come from a dromaeosaur. This fossil was eroded 
from terrestrial Cretaceous deposits to the north 
and transported by Miocene rivers into Louisiana.

Reference Cited:

Schiebout, J. A., Ting, S., Williams, M., Boardman, G., 
Gose, W., Wilhite, D. R., White, P. D., and Kilbourne, 
B. 2004. Paleofaunal & Environmental Research on 
Miocene Fossil Sites TVOR SE and TVOR S on Fort 
Polk, Louisiana, with Continued Survey, Collection, 
Processing, and Documentation of other Miocene 
localities. Louisiana. Corps of Engineers, Fort 
Worth District, Contract no. DACA63-00-D-006, 
Delivery Order no. 0015. Louisiana State University, 
45 pp.

http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA422018
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA422018&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

More about TVOR SE can be found in:

Hill, Julie Lynn, 2010, Taphonomy and Sedimentology 
of Two Miocene Vertebrate Fossil Sites on Fort Polk, 
Louisiana. Unpublished M.S. thesis, Department of
Geology & Geophysics, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 69 pp.

http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06082010-004937/
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06082010-004937/unrestricted/hill_thesis.pdf

Cretaceous shark teeth have been found in Cretaceous 
strata exposed on top of the Prothro Dome in Bienville 
Parish (Stringer and Henry 1996).

Reference Cited:

Stringer, Gary L., and Henry, M., 1996, First report of 
the Cretaceous shark Squalicorax from Louisiana. 
Mississippi Geology. vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 40-42.

http://members.cox.net/pyrophyllite/dinosaur1.html

Yours,

Paul 

Paul V. Heinrich