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Field notes regarding the 1930 discovery of the type specimen of Niobrarasaurus coleii, Gove County, Kansas: Virgil B. Cole (1897-1984).(dinosaur)

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From: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
Date: 20070322
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HISTORICAL NOTE

In 1930, Virgil B. Cole, an oil field geologist, collected the partial skeleton of a dinosaur (Ankylosauria; Nodosauridae) from the lower Smoky Hill Chalk in southeastern Gove County, Kansas. Cole described the discovery and collection of the specimen in a hand written letter (February 25, 1930) to Dr. Mehl on stationary from the hotel in Dighton, Kansas where he was staying at the time. The remains were shipped to Cole's alma mater (University of Missouri-Columbia) where they were examined and described by Mehl (1931, 1936) and given the name Hierosaurus ...

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