Cretalamna, meaning “chalk shark”, was a 10 foot long shark which lived from the middle Cretaceous Period to the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period 105-46 million years ago. Cretalamna was one of the first so-called “modern” sharks to appear…. Read More ›
Cretodus, meaning “chalk tooth”, was a 22 foot long shark which lived throughout the world during the middle to late Cretaceous Period 100-85 million years ago. Cretodus was one of the first “modern” sharks to appear on earth during the… Read More ›
Kronosaurus was a massive marine reptile called a pliosaur which lived in the waters around northeastern Australia during the middle Cretaceous Period circa 105-100 million years ago. The fossils of this animal were discovered in 1899 in Queensland, Australia, consisting… Read More ›
Do you love Deinonychus? Who doesn’t? Well, weirdos, I suppose, but anyway, I’ve just uploaded a new paleo logo to my Redbubble art merch page representing the Cloverly Formation of south-central Montana and north-central Wyoming, which lasted from 140-98 million… Read More ›
Hello. On August 21-23, 2024, I hosted a three-part Zoom lecture series on what North America looked like during the time that the dinosaur Utahraptor was alive during the early Cretaceous Period 135 million years ago. Utahraptor’s fossils are currently… Read More ›
Introduction Apsopelix and Pelecorapis were two genera of closely-related prehistoric saltwater fish which lived during the middle to late Cretaceous Period. Fossils of Apsopelix have been found in England, France, and in the American states of Montana, South Dakota, Colorado,… Read More ›
Introduction Siats, whose name is in reference to a monster from native Ute folklore, was a large meat-eating dinosaur which lived in Utah during the middle Cretaceous Period 98 million years ago. As far as we know, Siats was the… Read More ›
Thalassomedon, meaning “lord of the sea”, was a 38 foot long elasmosaurid plesiosaur which lived within the Mowry Sea, the shallow sea that covered North America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period 97-95 million years ago. In March 1939,… Read More ›
Edgarosaurus was a 12 foot long short-necked plesiosaur which lived within the Mowry Sea during the middle Cretaceous Period 105-100 million years ago. In 1993, a well-preserved fossil specimen consisting of the skull, neck, and one front flipper (collection ID… Read More ›
Brachauchenius was a 15 foot long pliosaur which lived in the shallow sea that once covered the middle of North America during the middle Cretaceous Period 100-90 million years ago. Fossils of this animal were first found by Charles H…. Read More ›
DINOSAURS AND BARBARIANS 