| VIRTUAL
TOUR
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
DINOSAUR RESOURCE CENTER
WOODLAND PARK, COLORADO
(north of Colorado Springs, adjacent
to the Florissant Formation of fossils). Here is info on how there
used to be palm trees in Colorado:
A superb facility to have FUN
learning about dinosaurs, watch them being preserved, and visit one of the
best museum gift shops ever. It takes a lot to make us stop and
look, and we spent considerable time here.
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DINOSAUR EXHIBIT |
| A
lively scene in the lobby, Albertosaurus vs. Edmontosaurus
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| Struthiomimus
altus
(ostrich mimic dinosaur)
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"Sandy",
the world's only partial skeleton of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
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Champosaurus
laramiensis, a crocodile-like dinosaur
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| Bambiraptor
feinbergi, a "bambino" baby raptor found by a 14-year old
amateur fossil hunter!
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Concoraptor
gracillis (means "slender conch shell thief), a beaked theropod
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Oviraptor
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| Oreodont
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Psittacosaurus
mongoliensis, a beaked dinosaur
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| FOSSIL
BUGS |
| Cricket
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Praying
mantis
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Grasshopper
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| SEA
DINOSAURS |
| Xiphactinus
audax "Sword-ray"
FISH
The LARGEST bony fish that ever
lived, it grew up to 18' long, distantly related to tarpon. It had a
voracious appetite, swallowed fish whole, some six feet or more in
length. There are fossils excavated showing a "fish within the
fish" such as this fossil found in Kansas in 1982. We have
vertebrae of these fish for sale on Fossils
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Mosasaurus and related sea monsters:
Plioplatecarpus sp.
Ichthyodectes ctenodon, "fish biter with
comb teeth", the "smaller" 6-12 foot version of the
Xiphactinus
Modern crocodile skull for comparison
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| Elasmosaurus
platyurus, nicknamed "Cope's Mistake" due to the good doctor's
error of putting the head on the tail at first:
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| SHARK
FOSSILS |
| Cretoxyrhina
shark jaw, associated vertebrae & teeth. This shark was
nicknamed the "Ginsu shark" after the kitchen knife that
"slices & dices", it was such a large (up to 25' long) &
fearsome predator shark. Serrated teeth measured up to 2" long.
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| Associated
vertebrae of the Squalicorax shark, another Cretaceous age shark
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Helicoprion
shark
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Shark
coprolite (poop!)
While we're at it, here's mammal poop too:
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| Yes!
This is SHARK PUKE:
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| OTHER
ODDITIES |
| Ceratopsian
brow horn (a beaked, horned herbivorous dinosaur that looks a bit like the
Triceratops
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Forked
Neural arch of a Malosaur
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| A
superb fossil prep room, that rivals that of the Smithsonian in how much
can be viewed. What a tremendous teaching tool:
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