Leptostyrax was a genus of prehistoric sand tiger shark measuring an impressive 20 feet long which lived in the oceans around North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia during the Cretaceous Period approximately 125-75 million years ago. Leptostyrax has a long… Read More ›
During the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs ruled the land, but their flying cousins the pterosaurs ruled the sky. They first appeared during the late Triassic Period about 210 million years ago, and persisted until the reign of the reptiles came to… Read More ›
Acrocanthosaurus, meaning “high-spined lizard”, was a large 35 foot long meat-eating dinosaur which lived in North America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period approximately 115-110 million years ago. It is distinctive for the unusually tall neural spines on the… Read More ›
Leucichthyops vagans was a species of prehistoric salmonid fish which lived in what’s now western North America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period approximately 100 million years ago. The species was named in 1919 by Theodore D. A. Cockerell,… Read More ›
Erythrinolepis was a prehistoric freshwater fish which lived in western North America during the middle to late Cretaceous Period approximately 100-66 million years ago. The name Erythrinolepis was coined by the paleontologist Theodore D. A. Cockerell in 1919. The name… Read More ›
Kelmayisaurus was an obscure species of large meat-eating dinosaur which lived in northwestern China (the region sometimes referred to as Uyghurstan) during the early to middle Cretaceous Period 130-120 million years ago. In 1964, fossils belonging to several dinosaur species… Read More ›
There were numerous kinds of marine reptiles which swam in the oceans during the Mesozoic Era, including the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. Less well known are the marine crocodilians, or more accurately, crocodylomorphs. These animals are known as the thalattosuchians,… Read More ›
Euhelopus was a sauropod dinosaur which lived in eastern China during the early Cretaceous Period approximately 130-112 million years ago. Fossils of this animal were found in the early 20th Century within the rocks of the Meng-Yin Formation within Shandong… Read More ›
Alectrosaurus was a small tyrannosauroidean theropod dinosaur which lived in Mongolia during the middle of the Cretaceous Period around 95 million years ago. It is known from partial remains belonging to several individuals, but their incompleteness makes it difficult to… Read More ›
Gigantoraptor was a massive 25-30 foot long oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur which lived in eastern Asia (and possibly in North America) during the middle of the Cretaceous Period. The fossils of this enormous bird-like dinosaur, consisting of a partial skeleton, were… Read More ›
