Life, Death in a Cretaceous Coastal Swamp

Chris Noto talks crocodile dinosaurs Wednesday.

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Chris Noto is ready to take you down to the swamp. A paleontologist who studies vertebrates--especially dinosaurs--from the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era (approximately 145.5-65.5 million years ago), talks about the new fossil location in Dallas during a program Wednesday, March 20, at 6 p.m. in Kenosha's Dinosaur Discovery Museum.

Called the "Arlington Archosaur Site," it contains many fossils of sharks, fish, amphibians, lizards, turtles, and dinosaurs. But the star among them is a new species of giant crocodile with evidence that it crunched turtles and ate dinosaurs!

View the life reconstructions of these animals and listen to dramatic stories of life and death in a 100-million-year-old coastal swamp where if the predators didn't get you, the wildfires would! For more information, visit the Dinosaur Discovery Museum web site.

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Publish date: 3/19/2013

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