Update of Dinosaur Material From Nebraska

[john-schneiderman@cox.net]

YPM VP 057175 (cast)   Original catalog number UNSM 93085   [University 
of Nebraska State Museum]

Taxon Name..........Theropoda indet
Locality.................Nebraska. Gage. Beatrice, Holmesville.
Stratigraphy..........Cretaceous, Dakota Sandstone
Higher Ranks.........Chordata; Vertebrata; Amniota; Reptilia; Diapsida; 
Archosauria; Saurischia; Theropoda indet.
Other Attributes......cast; undetermined

note: this may be the tooth as listed #3 in listing below




To date: Nebraska has produced some dinosaur material

1)  UNSM 1200 (6-8-28)  distal end of left femur of an iguanodontid or 
early hadrosaur from Burt County, near Decatur.

reference: Barbour, E. H. 1931. Evidence of dinosaurs in Nebraska. 
Bulletin of University of Nebraska State Museum, 1:187–190.

2)  UNSM (6-9-32)  partial sacrum from a ?hadrosaur from near ?[Peru, 
Nemaha County]

possibly non-dinosaurian

3)  a partial tooth from an ?Albertosaurus from gravel originating from 
a quarry in Gage County, near Holmesville

Schneiderman pers. comm. to Ford and Chure, 2001

4)  another partial tooth ?tyrannosaur [Dawes or Sioux County, 
northwestern Nebraska]

reference: USNM pers.comm. 1988

5)  bone fragments considered dinosaurian [Burt County near Decatur]

reference: Barbour, E. H. pers. comm.

6)  Dinosaur tracks [At least 22 tridactyl ornithopod dinosaur tracks, 
Caririchnium-like, poorly preserved in various degrees of expression] 
early Cretaceous, upper Albian, middle Dakota Formation, southern 
Jefferson County, Nebraska

reference: R. M. Joeckel; et.al.2004. "Late Albian Dinosaur Tracks from 
the Cratonic (Eastern) Margin of the Western Interior Seaway, Nebraska, 
USA" Ichnos, 11:275–284.