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List of the Mesozoic life of Colorado information


This list of the Mesozoic life of Colorado contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Colorado and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

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List of the Mesozoic life of Colorado

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This list of the Mesozoic life of Colorado contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state...

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List of the prehistoric life of Colorado

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This list of the prehistoric life of Colorado contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US...

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List of vertebrate fauna of the Maastrichtian stage

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This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended...

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Morrison Formation

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Morrison, Colorado, where some of the first fossils in the formation were discovered by Arthur Lakes in 1877. That same year, it became the center of the Bone...

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List of common misconceptions

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avian theropods survive as part of the modern fauna. Mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and other aquatic Mesozoic diapsids were not dinosaurs. Despite...

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Nigersaurus

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Society in Washington. Nigersaurus was dubbed a "Mesozoic cow" in the press, and Sereno stressed that it was the most unusual dinosaur he had ever seen. He...

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Geology of Colorado

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rocks, marking the beginning of the Mesozoic. The sea reached western Colorado and the area was blanketed in ash fall from eruptions to the west. Early Jurassic...

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List of dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation

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theropod Saurophagus maximus from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Oklahoma, USA. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota...

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Rocky Mountain National Park

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northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east...

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List of sauropodomorph type specimens

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"Middle-late Mesozoic sedimentary provinces of the Luxi and Jiaolai areas: implications for tectonic evolution of the North China Block". Journal of Asian Earth...

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Walking with Dinosaurs

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explores life in the Mesozoic era, particularly dinosaurs, in the format of a traditional nature documentary. Walking with Dinosaurs was the brainchild of Tim...

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Cenozoic

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comparable to the preceding Mesozoic ('middle life') and Paleozoic ('old life') Eras, as well as to the Proterozoic ('earlier life') Eon. The Cenozoic is...

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Rollins Pass

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in the Southern Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado in the United States. The pass is located on and traverses the Continental Divide of the Americas...

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Clarence Day

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In the Green Mountain Country (1934) Scenes from the Mesozoic and Other Drawings (1935) Life with Father (1935) After All (1936; posthumous) Life with...

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Zion National Park

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southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique...

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Yule Marble

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of metamorphosed Leadville Limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) southeast of the town...

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Rocky Mountains

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down in the shallow sea. The mountains eroded throughout the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic, leaving extensive deposits of sedimentary rock. Terranes...

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Stromatoporoidea

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they apparently died out during the Hangenberg event at the end of the Devonian. A number of hypercalcified Mesozoic sponges have been classified as stromatoporoids...

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List of North American dinosaurs

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"Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae". In Tanke, Darren; Carpenter, Ken (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: New Research...

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Timeline of natural history

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Beginning of Triassic Period, the Mesozoic era and of the age of the dinosaurs. c. 251.9 Ma ± 0.024 Ma – Mesozoic era and Triassic Period begin. Mesozoic Marine...

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Largest and heaviest animals

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(1,609–2,502 lb). Prehistoric marine reptiles from the Mesozoic were even larger. Archelon was the largest testudines, being around 4.6 m (15 ft) long...

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2024 in paleontology

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happened during the Mesozoic, is presented by Choi et al. (2024). Kiel et al. (2024) report the discovery of kelp holdfasts from the Oligocene strata...

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List of fossil sites

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This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single...

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Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

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region of the U.S. state of Colorado. The monument's 176,056 acres (712.47 km2) are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, as directed in the presidential...

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Western United States

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Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. The Rocky Mountains expose igneous and metamorphic rock both from the Precambrian and from the Phanerozoic eon. The Inter-mountain...

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