VIRTUAL
TOUR
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
DINOSAUR RESOURCE CENTER
WOODLAND PARK, COLORADO
![co-88.JPG (142858 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-88_small.JPG)
(north of Colorado Springs, adjacent
to the Florissant Formation of fossils). Here is info on how there
used to be palm trees in Colorado:
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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)
![co-29.JPG (130605 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-29_small.JPG) |
"Sandy",
the world's only partial skeleton of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
![co-30.JPG (136631 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-30_small.JPG)
![co-31.JPG (136209 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-31_small.JPG)
![co-42.JPG (135323 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-42_small.JPG)
![co-75.JPG (158250 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-75_small.JPG)
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Champosaurus
laramiensis, a crocodile-like dinosaur
![co-32.JPG (145108 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-32_small.JPG)
![co-33.JPG (137530 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-33_small.JPG)
![co-34.JPG (135364 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-34_small.JPG)
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Bambiraptor
feinbergi, a "bambino" baby raptor found by a 14-year old
amateur fossil hunter!
![co-70.JPG (137903 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-70_small.JPG)
![co-35.JPG (126885 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-35_small.JPG)
![co-36.JPG (142215 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-36_small.JPG)
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Concoraptor
gracillis (means "slender conch shell thief), a beaked theropod
![co-37.JPG (129319 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-37_small.JPG)
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Oviraptor
![co-38.JPG (135993 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-38_small.JPG)
![co-39.JPG (136327 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-39_small.JPG)
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Oreodont
![co-83.JPG (147743 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-83_small.JPG)
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Psittacosaurus
mongoliensis, a beaked dinosaur
![co-84.JPG (134381 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-84_small.JPG)
![co-85.JPG (145959 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-85_small.JPG)
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FOSSIL
BUGS |
Cricket
![co-77.JPG (137489 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-77_small.JPG)
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Praying
mantis
![co-78.JPG (140303 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-78_small.JPG)
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Grasshopper
![co-79.JPG (134595 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-79_small.JPG)
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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
Page 3
![fish-within-a-fish.jpg (29822 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/fish-within-a-fish_small.jpg)
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![co-74.JPG (136175 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-74_small.JPG)
Mosasaurus and related sea monsters:
Plioplatecarpus sp.
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Ichthyodectes ctenodon, "fish biter with
comb teeth", the "smaller" 6-12 foot version of the
Xiphactinus
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Modern crocodile skull for comparison
![co-67.JPG (144450 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-67_small.JPG)
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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:
![co-57.JPG (141086 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-57_small.JPG)
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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.
![co-45.JPG (138779 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-45_small.JPG)
![co-51.JPG (151327 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-51_small.JPG)
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Associated
vertebrae of the Squalicorax shark, another Cretaceous age shark
![co-48.JPG (143145 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-48_small.JPG)
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Helicoprion
shark
![co-49.JPG (145218 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-49_small.JPG)
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Shark
coprolite (poop!)
![co-50.JPG (161286 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-50_small.JPG)
While we're at it, here's mammal poop too:
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Yes!
This is SHARK PUKE:
![co-69.JPG (143527 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-69_small.JPG)
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OTHER
ODDITIES |
Ceratopsian
brow horn (a beaked, horned herbivorous dinosaur that looks a bit like the
Triceratops
![co-73.JPG (136017 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-73_small.JPG)
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Forked
Neural arch of a Malosaur
![co-41.JPG (141897 bytes)](Fossils%20Photos/co-41_small.JPG)
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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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