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Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Everhart Klappentext Michael J. Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at www.oceansofkansas.com. He lives in Derby, Kansas. Zusammenfassung Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived-above, within, and on the shores of America's ancient inland sea. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: An Ocean in Kansas? 2. Our Discovery of the Western Interior Sea 3. Invertebrates, Plants, and Trace Fossils 4. Sharks: Sharp Teeth and Shell Crushers 5. Fishes, Large and Small 6. Turtles: Leatherback Giants 7. Where the Elasmosaurs Roamed 8. Pliosaurs and Polycotylids 9. Enter the Mosasaurs 10. Pteranodons: Rulers of the Air 11. Feathers and Teeth 12. Dinosaurs? 13. The Big Picture Epilogue: Where Did It Go? References Index
