Midwest dinosaurs

[James Mahaffy <mahaffy@dordt.edu>]

In a recent post John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>
asked: "I am now looking for is information or listings of
dinosaur finds for the following states: 
Nebraska (I believe there has been 4 found so far; a distal end
of     'iguanodontid' femur, sacrum, 'albertosaur' tooth,
and ?) 
For Nebraska, I assume that distal end is the one described by
Barbour in 1931 from Burt Co. Nebraska.  I thought there were a
couple more in Iowa, but the one I was thinking of, is only 73
vertebrae of a Plesiosaur that are displayed in the Sioux City
Public Museum.  There are a couple citations of these reptiles
from the area you are interested  and a good summary of where
vertebrate fossils have been found in the 1981 article by Brian
Witzke in "The Cretaceous Stratigraphy and sedimentation in
Northwest Iowa, Northeast Nebraska and southeast South Dakota (Ia
Geol Survey Guidebook Series Number 4).    
There was also some reports in Sioux City Journal about two years
ago when a girl who found, what I think the press called dinosaur
remains.  It could have been a non dinosaur reptile, but I am
pretty sure it was a vertebrate.  If you are not aware of that

find, I could run down the reference, which is filed or buried
somewhere.
I also assume you have checked with the folks in the museum down in
Lincoln.

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