- Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
Information about fossils from the ocean that covered the Midwestern U.S. during the Age of Dinosaurs, including information about mosasaurs, pleisiosaurs, and pteranodons.
www.oceansofkansas.com
- Mesozoic Marine Monsters of Mangahouanga
Information about marine fossil environments in New Zealand. Includes fossil photos and diagrams.
www.oceansofkansas.com/nz-aus.html
- Marine Reptiles of South Dakota
Descriptions of the ichthyosaurs, marine turtles, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs fossils found in South Dakota.
www.northern.edu/natsource/earth/Marine1.htm
- Monsters of the Ancient Sea
National Geographic interactive feature examining the prehistoric predators whose size and might spun legends that live on today.
www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0512/feature3/multimedia.html
- Wikipedia: Mosasaur
Article about mosasaurs, the serpentine marine reptiles that were the dominant marine predators during last 25 million years of the Cretaceous Period.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaur
- Mosasaurs: Last of the Great Marine Reptiles
Learn about mosasurs, from their evolution from small terrestrial lizards in the late Jurassic to their demise in the late Cretaceous.
www.oceansofkansas.com/Greatrep.html
- Australian Mesozoic Marine Reptiles
Profiles of the marine reptiles that lived with in the vast but shallow inland sea that covered most of Australia through the Cretaceous period.
home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/marine.htm
- Mosasaur Museum
Virtual collection of mosasaur specimens from Kansas and elsewhere written and illustrated by Mike Everhart.
www.oceansofkansas.com/mosasaur.html
- Origin Energy Fossil Gallery - The Opal Fossils of South Australia
Explore life from Australia's inland sea during the age of the dinosaurs. Online exhibit offers photographs of the famous opalized Addyman Plesiosaur.
www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/fossils
- Marine Reptiles of the Ancient Seas
Journey Through Time offers profiles and illustrations of the ancient reptiles that adapted to life in the seas: nothosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.
www.nhm.org/journey/prehist/marine/home.html
- Big Brook Reptile Page
Displays the fossils of the mosasaur, plesiosaur, and ancient sea turtles found at Big Brook, New Jersey.
njfossils.net/reptile.html
- History of Life: Modernization of Life and Sea
Learn about the Mesozoic ocean ecosystems and the marine reptiles that dominated them -- turtles, crocodiles, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.
biology.fullerton.edu/life/hol/hol_ch14.html
- Fauna of the Jurrasic Sea
Hauff Museum of the prehistoric world offers profiles of the creatures -- ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, marine crocodiles, pterosaurs, and fish -- that resided in the ancient bay that once covered half of Southern Germany.
www.urweltmuseum.de/Englisch/museum_eng/Tierwelt_eng/Tierwelt_eng.htm
- A Cruel Sea - When Reptiles Ruled the Waves
Dr. Jo Wright describes life in Jurassic seas for this BBC's segment of the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.
www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs/chronology/149mya1.shtml
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