FMPLD - Monster in the Hollow—The Story of Missouri’s Ozark Dinosaurs
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Ferguson Municipal Public Library District presents a talk by retired UMSL professor Michael Fix:
“Monster in the Hollow—The Story of Missouri’s Ozark Dinosaurs”
Did you know the state of Missouri has an officially recognized state dinosaur?
Join Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project geologist, Michael Fix, as he explores the Chronister Site – Missouri’s only known dinosaur find, from the accidental discovery of dinosaur fossils there in the 1940s to the eventual scientific excavations many decades later and the major fossil discoveries that resulted from those early stumbled-upon bones.
Michael Fix is a member of the Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project affiliated with the Sainte Genevieve Museum Learning Center. Since 1999, the project has been conducting a scientific excavation at the site, uncovering the remains of three types of dinosaurs: a hadrosauroid (duck-billed dinosaur) named Parrosaurus missouriensis (the official Missouri state dinosaur!), a tyrannosaurid (a relative of Tyrannosaurus) and a dromaeosaur (a relative of Velociraptor). The site has also produced fossils of freshwater turtles, a strange type of tortoise with a beaded shell and spiny legs, crocodiles, a bizarre large amphibian with no back legs, and fish such as gar, bowfin, and freshwater sharks and rays.
Be transported back to the late Cretaceous period some 75 million years ago when dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters roamed our state in this fascinating talk on The Monster in the Hollow.
Location:
Ferguson Municipal Public Library
35 N. Florissant Road
Ferguson, MO 63135
https://ferguson.lib.mo.us
“Monster in the Hollow—The Story of Missouri’s Ozark Dinosaurs”
Did you know the state of Missouri has an officially recognized state dinosaur?
Join Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project geologist, Michael Fix, as he explores the Chronister Site – Missouri’s only known dinosaur find, from the accidental discovery of dinosaur fossils there in the 1940s to the eventual scientific excavations many decades later and the major fossil discoveries that resulted from those early stumbled-upon bones.
Michael Fix is a member of the Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project affiliated with the Sainte Genevieve Museum Learning Center. Since 1999, the project has been conducting a scientific excavation at the site, uncovering the remains of three types of dinosaurs: a hadrosauroid (duck-billed dinosaur) named Parrosaurus missouriensis (the official Missouri state dinosaur!), a tyrannosaurid (a relative of Tyrannosaurus) and a dromaeosaur (a relative of Velociraptor). The site has also produced fossils of freshwater turtles, a strange type of tortoise with a beaded shell and spiny legs, crocodiles, a bizarre large amphibian with no back legs, and fish such as gar, bowfin, and freshwater sharks and rays.
Be transported back to the late Cretaceous period some 75 million years ago when dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters roamed our state in this fascinating talk on The Monster in the Hollow.
Location:
Ferguson Municipal Public Library
35 N. Florissant Road
Ferguson, MO 63135
https://ferguson.lib.mo.us
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Ferguson Municipal Public Library, 35 N Florissant Rd, St Louis, MO 63135-2331, United States, Florissant
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