- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mesozoic Marine Monsters of Mangahouanga
Information about marine fossil environments in New Zealand. Includes fossil photos and diagrams.
www.oceansofkansas.com/nz-aus.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
- 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
- Mosasaur Museum
Virtual collection of mosasaur specimens from Kansas and elsewhere written and illustrated by Mike Everhart.
www.oceansofkansas.com/mosasaur.html
- 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
- 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
- Paleontology Portal: Extinct Marine Reptiles
See some fossil samples of the reptiles that returned to the water at different times in the Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic.
www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=fossil_gallery§ionnav;=taxon&tax...;
- 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
- Natural History Museum: Fossil Marine Reptiles
Small slide show of the U.K. Natural History Museum's plesiosaur and ichthyosaur fossil specimens.
www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/green-zone/fossil-marine-reptiles
- The Eromanga Sea - OZ Fossils: The Age of Reptiles
Learn about the Pliosaurs and Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Ammonites, and Beleminites that lived in the shallow sea that covered inland Australia ten million years ago.
www.abc.net.au/science/ozfossil/ageofreptiles/eromanga/default.htm
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