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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Spike is the nickname of a dinosaur fossil specimen from the Late Cretaceous period.
• The Late Cretaceous period ended more than 65 million years ago.
• Spike is a member of the genus Pentaceratops.
• Spike is housed at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
• The New Mexico Museum of Natural History is in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The student wants to identify the institution in which Spike is housed. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

Spike is housed at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

B

Spike is the nickname of a dinosaur fossil specimen belonging to the genus Pentaceratops.

C

Albuquerque, New Mexico, is home to a Pentaceratops fossil specimen nicknamed Spike.

D

The Pentaceratops fossil specimen Spike lived more than 65 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period.