Ladd Formation

Ladd Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Location
Region California
Country United States

The Ladd Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation located in Orange County, California.

Paleofauna

Dinosaur remains (mainly hadrosaurid fragments) are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.[1] In 1927 Bernard Nettleton Moore found a hadrosaur maxilla with teeth while searching for ammonites in the formation. In 1950 Marlon V. Kirk found a plesiosaur centrum (spool of the vertebra). In 1978 Robert Drachuk, also while searching for ammonites, collected a hadrosaur cranial fragment from a limestone concretion. In 1992 Robert D. Hansen found the distal tibia of a hadrosaur.[2]

Vertebrates of the Moreno Formation
Genus Species Location Member Abundance Notes Images

Basilemys[3]

See also

Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. Hilton (2003), pp. 233-34, 241.
  3. "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," in Hilton (2003) p. 277

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