| VIRTUAL
TOUR
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
DINOSAUR RESOURCE CENTER
WOODLAND PARK, COLORADO
(north of Colorado Springs, adjacent
to the Florissant Formation of fossils)
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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