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Introduction to the geology and paleontology of the Late Cretaceous marine deposits of the Dakotas / D.C. Parris, S.Y. Shelton, and J.E. Martin -- Revised lithostratigraphy of the lower Pierre Shale Group (Campanian) of central South Dakota, including newly designated members / J.E. Martin, J.L Bertog, and D.C. Parris -- Geochemical and mineralogical recognition of the bentonites in the lower Pierre Shale Group and their use in regional stratigraphic correlation / J. Bertog, W. Huff, and J.E. Martin --- Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the middle Pierre Shale along the Missouri River, central South Dakota / P.A. Hanczaryk and W.B. Gallagher -- Rare earth element (REE) analysis of fossil vertebrates from the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group for the purposes of paleobathymetric interpretations of the Western Interior Seaway / D. Patrick ... [et al.] -- Mollusks from the late Campanian upper DeGrey Formation of the Pierre Shale Group, Missouri River Valley, central South Dakota / J.E. Fox -- Fossil fish from the Pierre Shale Group (Late Cretaceous) / D.C. Parris, B.S. Grandstaff, and W.B. Gallagher -- Taxonomic comparison and stratigraphic distribution of Toxochelys (Testudines: Cheloniidae) of South Dakota / M. Hart Carrino -- New polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous; lower upper Cenomanian), Black Hills, South Dakota / B.A. Schumacher -- Comparison of gastroliths within plesiosaurs (Elasmosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous marine deposits of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and the Missouri River area, South Dakota / W.A. Thompson, J.E. Martin, and M. Reguero -- Rare earth element determination of the stratigraphic position of the holotype of Mosasaurus missouriensis (Harlan), the first named fossil reptile from the American west / D. Patrick ... [et al.] -- Stomach contents of Globidens, a shell-crushing mosasaur (Squamata), from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group, Big Bend area of the Missouri River, central South Dakota / J.E. Martin and J.E. Fox -- New species of the durophagous mosasaur, Globidnes (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group of central Soth Dakota, USA / J.E. Martin -- North American Hainosaurus (Squamata : Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of southern South Dakota / J.E. Martin -- Largest mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Missouri River area (Late Cretaceous: Pierre Shale Group) of South Dakota and its relationship to Lewis and Clark / R.W. Meredith , J.E. Martin, and P.N. Wegleitner -- Pteranodon (Reptilia: Pterosauria) : stratgraphic distribution and taphonomy in the lower Pierre Shale Group (Companian), western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming / J.E. Hargrave -- New species of the diving bird, Baptornis (Ornithurae: Hesperornithiformnes), from the lower Pierre Shale Group (Upper Cretaceous) of southwestern South Dakota / J.E. Martin and A. Cordes-Person -- Amphibian, reptilian, and avian remains from the Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian) : shoreline and estuarine deposits of the Pierre Sea in south-central North Dakota / J.W. Hoganson, J.M Erickson, and F.D. Holland, Jr. |