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impoverished era of reconstruction, Kerr re-established the Survey and 
directed its activities until his death in 1885. The fossil vertebrates col- 
lected by Kerr and his assistants were sent to Philadelphia for description 
by the leading vertebrate paleontologist of the day, Edward Drinker 
Cope, and were deposited for permanent safekeeping in the United States 
National Museum. Cope published the Survey’s discoveries as they came 
to hand, and subsequently (1875) compiled a synopsis of all the fossil ver- 
tebrates that had been found in the state. 
A hiatus in paleontological work then intervened, ending only in 1905 
when a survey of the coastal plain deposits was undertaken as a 
cooperative project of the United States Geological Survey and the North 
Carolina Geological and Economic Survey. In the course of this work a 
number of Cretaceous reptile bones were recovered at Phoebus Landing 
on the Cape Fear River by Lloyd W. Stephenson and his associate, 
Edward W. Berry (the elder). This material was to have been described 
in Part II of the State Survey’s Report (Volume V), '‘The Cretaceous For- 
mations of North Carolina,” but unfortunately the series was discon- 
tinued after publication of Part I (Stephenson 1923). Aside from the iden- 
tifications by Charles W. Gilmore published in Stephenson’s 1912 report 
and the subsequent citation by Lull and Wright (1942) of specimens 
believed to be hadrosaurian, Stephenson’s material remained un- 
described in the National Museum. 
After another lengthy hiatus, in the 1950s geologists from the Univer- 
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undertook systematic survey work 
along the Cape Fear River. Their published reports (e.g. Brett and 
Wheeler 1961; Heron and Wheeler 1964) added greatly to our un- 
derstanding of Cretaceous sedimentology and stratigraphy. One 
dinosaurian byproduct of this research was the hadrosaur humerus 
(described below) recovered by Everett Brett and Walter H. Wheeler at 
Milepost 49. Wheeler (1966) reported on a mandible of the mosasaurid 
lizard Tylosaurus that he collected at Phoebus Landing in 1964. 
A specific search for vertebrate fossils was begun in 1963 by Halsey W. 
Miller, Jr., then on the faculty of High Point College. Through his ex- 
cavations of 1964-1965 at Phoebus Landing the number of known 
specimens was greatly increased, making it possible to prepare a 
preliminary faunal list (Miller 1967, 1968). All specimens recovered were 
presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the 
Sternberg Museum of Fort Hays Kansas State College. 
The purpose of this paper is to gather together the piecemeal finds of 
dinosaur bones from North Carolina and interpret them in the light of 
more nearly complete material from elsewhere. As the foregoing historical 
summary implies, the Tarheel state has Cretaceous vertebrates in store 
