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Illustration of a fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Lophorhothon †Lophorhothon – type locality for genus †Lophorhothon atopus – type locality for species †Loxotoma †Lucina; Martesia †Mathilda †Megalocoelacanthus – type locality for genus †Megalocoelacanthus dobiei – type locality for species ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Alabama contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alabama and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Sea turtle fossils are also commonly found in the Cretaceous rocks of Alabama and in 2018, a new species of Peritresius was named based on Alabama fossils. [11] Areas of Alabama not covered by seawater were home to subtropical forests. [1] Armored and duckbilled dinosaurs, like Lophorhothon [12] and Eotrachodon, [13] inhabited the state, as did ...
The rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope (right) sparked the Bone Wars.. The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, [1] was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ...
The Alabama Museum of Natural History is the state's natural history museum, located in Smith Hall at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The oldest museum in the state, it was founded in 1831. The exhibits depict the natural diversity of Alabama from the Age of Dinosaurs, the Coal Age, and the Ice Age.
Findings suggest dinosaurs were much more diverse in North Africa than previously thought
Skeletal mount of the Tyrannosaurus holotype.. This timeline of tyrannosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the tyrannosaurs, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs that began as small, long-armed bird-like creatures with elaborate cranial ornamentation but achieved apex predator status during the Late Cretaceous as their arms shrank and ...
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