Editing Mitchell, Oregon (section)

===Oregon's first dinosaur fossil===
In 2018, a geologist from the [[University of Oregon]] found a fossilized toe of a plant-eating [[dinosaur]] near Mitchell, where the Pacific Ocean coast lay 100&nbsp;million years ago. This discovery has been billed as the first dinosaur fossil found in Oregon.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Erin |date=November 20, 2018 |title=Meet the 'Mitchell ornithopod': Oregon's 1st dinosaur fossil find |publisher=[[Oregon Public Broadcasting]] |url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/mitchell-oregon-first-dinosaur-fossil-ornithopod |access-date=November 25, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122141200/https://www.opb.org/news/article/mitchell-oregon-first-dinosaur-fossil-ornithopod |archive-date=November 22, 2018}}</ref>

A competing claim involves fossil fragments of a [[hadrosaurid|hadrosaur]] or duck-billed dinosaur found in the [[Otter Point Formation]] near the mouth of the [[Rogue River (Oregon)|Rogue River]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Ellen Morris |year=2003 |title = In Search of Ancient Oregon: A geological and natural history |place=Portland, Oregon |publisher=Timber Press |isbn=978-0-88192-789-4 |pages=52–56}}</ref>