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The Moreno Hill Formation is a geological formation in New Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...

. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s of the Moreno Hill Formation
Taxa	Presence	Description	Images
Clade: Coelurosauria Coelurosauria Coelurosauria is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs. In the past, it was used to refer to all small theropods, although this classification has been abolished... sp.		An unnamed small coelurosaur and dromeosaur.
Clade: Jeyawati Jeyawati Jeyawati is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur which lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species, J. rugoculus, was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered in the U.S. state of New Mexico.... J. rugoculus		An basal hadrosauromorph.
Genus: Nothronychus Nothronychus Nothronychus is a genus of theropod dinosaur classified in the group Therizinosauria, from the Cretaceous of North America.The type species of this dinosaur, Nothronychus mckinleyi, was described by James Kirkland and Douglas G. Wolfe in 2001... N. mckinleyi		A therizinosaur Therizinosaur Therizinosaurs are theropod dinosaurs belonging to the clade Therizinosauria. Therizinosaur fossils have been found in Early through Late Cretaceous deposits in Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and Western North America... . "Teeth, fragmentary skull bones, cervical and other vertebrae, scapula, partial forelimb and hindlimb."
Genus: Zuniceratops Zuniceratops Zuniceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from the mid Turonian of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now New Mexico, United States... Z. christopheri		A ceratopsia Ceratopsia Ceratopsia or Ceratopia is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic. The earliest known ceratopsian, Yinlong downsi, lived between 161.2 and 155.7... n. "Partial cranial and postcranial materials of five individuals."

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