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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Cricket
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Praying mantis
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Grasshopper
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| SEA DINOSAURS | ||
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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 Page 3
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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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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