Platycarpus ictericus, mosasaur skull Pachycephalosaurus Rogers and Monetta in 1993)

Rogers and Monetta in 1993)

5---horseshoe crab---jurassic

will be an introduction to Paleobotany and will contain not only West Virginia fossils

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The long jaws were distinctly crocodilian and had 96 teeth

Platycarpus ictericus, mosasaur skull Pachycephalosaurus Rogers and Monetta in 1993)Mosasaurs were a group of predatory marine reptiles that were very successful during the Late Cretaceous Period. The first mosasaur fossils were found in the 1770's in a mine in the Netherlands, more than 50 years before the first dinosaur bones were found. Mosasaurs were among the first fossils recognized and scientifically described. "Mosasaur" means "reptile of the Meuse," a river near the quarry where mosasaurs were first found. Mosasaurs were