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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Vince Schneider shows off a small portion of the museum's extensive marine fossil collection

Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_13 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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VINCE SCHNEIDER SHOWS OFF A SMALL PORTION OF THE MUSEUM'S EXTENSIVE MARINE FOSSIL COLLECTION. of Leptocycas gracilis, an extinct sago palm, was discovered. As we linger in the Triassic period, Schneider points out a phytosaur, discovered in a Lee County coal mine, and the skeletal cast of a rauisuchid, a forerunner of the crocodile. Moving into the Jurassic period, we notice the appearance of birds and mammals with dinosaurs. A mural shows the branching lines of dinosaur evolution. By the end of the Jurassic period, the Mid-Atlantic suboceanic ridge ruptures Pangaea into two land masses, setting into geologic motion the drift of continents toward their modern positions over the following 150 million years. THE CRETACEOUS ON THE CAPE FEAR When we reach the Cretaceous period at a location on the banks of the ancestral Cape Fear River, the scene is abundant with sights and sounds. An Albertosaurus, a tyrannosaurid, crashes through the forest to attack a defenseless Edmontosaurus, a duckbill, guarding her nest of hafchlings. Primitive cypress, sycamore and magnolia trees, with leaf patterns and structure too real to be fabrications, provide a natural ecological setting that is complete with soft shell turtles, birds, small animals and pesky dung beetles. "Willo," said to be the most complete Thescelosaurus ever found, has a special place here. Perhaps it's a way to thank the small, swine-like herbivore for putting up with scientific probing to unlock its biological secrets buried millions of years ago in South Dakota. The results of MRI and CAT scans, isotopic bone studies and other scientific assays, will provide the basis TRI 250m,ll,o, 200 millk EARLY CRETACEOUS 150 million 22 SPRING 2000

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