TABLE OF CONTENTS
OCEANS OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGY
Copyright © 1996 - 2006 by Mike Everhart
Last revised 06/24/2006
LEFT: Left lateral view of the skull of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope 1869 (from Merriam, 1894).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OCEANS OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGY
Copyright © 1996 - 2006 by Mike EverhartLast revised 06/24/2006LEFT: Left lateral view of the skull of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope 1869 (from Merriam, 1894). |
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| Page Number | Page Title - "Click Here" | Description of Contents | Date Posted/Update |
| Homepage | Oceans of Kansas Paleontology | The main webpage with links to sub-pages and other interesting paleontology sites around the world | Updated a lot!! Current to 06/2006 |
| Page 1 | Something about Oceans of Kansas Paleontology | Who, what and why is Oceans of Kansas Paleontology? A little bit about what we do and our first major find... a complete Protosphyraena nitida skull. | Updated 10/99 |
| Page 2 | Just about Mosasaurs | The subject of what this website is mostly about. | Updated 10/99 |
| Page 3a | Invertebrate and Fish Fossils | A Field Guide to Fossils of the Smoky Hill Chalk - Part 1; 2 Pages | Updated 6/01/97 |
| Page 3b | Reptile and Bird Fossils | A Field Guide to Fossils of the Smoky Hill Chalk - Part 2; 2 Pages | Updated 7/20/97 |
| Page 4a | A Moment in Time | Evidence of Shark Predation on Mosasaurs - Featured on the Paleoworld Documentary - "Prehistoric Sharks" | Updated 10/97 |
| Page 4b | Shark Attack! On Location with Wall to Wall T. V. LTD | Filming the evidence of an ancient shark attack for Paleoworld: "Prehistoric Sharks" | Added 4/97 |
| Page 4c | More about a "Shark Attack" on a large Mosasaur | Additional pictures and Kansas Academy of Sciences Abstract | Added 6/98 |
| Page 5 | One Day in the Western Interior Sea | Life could be very short for the unwary. Fossil evidence of sudden death in the Western Interior Sea | ADDED 5/10/97 |
| Page 6 | Discovering a Giant Pteranodon | Digging up a Pteranodon skeleton and skull in Western Kansas - 1996 | Posted 2/97 |
| Page 7 | Martinichthys - Mystery Fish of the Smoky Hill Chalk | A strange late Cretaceous fish that left very little of itself to be discovered..... just its 'nose' | Updated 11/98 |
| Page 8 | Another Recent Mosasaur Discovery!!! | Lots of Photos of a new find (Platecarpus planifrons) from the Smoky Hill chalk. | Updated 06/23/98 |
| Page 8a | A Mosasaur Picture Gallery | Additional pictures of the Platecarpus planifrons | Updated 06/23/98 |
| Page 9 | Finding a Rare, Shell Crushing Mosasaur | The first Globidens sp. from Kansas (Pierre Shale) - Now includes the only known published photos of Globidens dakotensis | Updated 12/99 |
| Page 10 | The Earliest Record for a Clidastes sp. (Mosasaur) | A New York teenager finds the earliest documented record of Clidastes liodontus in the Smoky Hill chalk. | Posted 2/97 |
| Page 11 | A New Record for a Very Large Mosasaur | We finally complete the dig of the earliest documented Tylosaurus proriger - Reported at the 1997 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting | Updated 10/28/97 |
| Page 11a | Additional pictures of the Tylosaurus proriger skull | More pictures of the Tylosaurus skull, taken during preparation | posted 4/97 |
| Page 11b | The Dig Continues - New Field Work - May 2-4, 1997 | We bring in the heavy equipment to clear the Tylosaurus site | Posted 7/97 |
| Page 11c | We Finally Complete the Dig: June 28, and August 7-8, 1997 | The final work on the Tylosaurus dig site. Removing the remaining pieces of this specimen. | Posted 9/97 |
| Page 12 | Digging a shark scavenged Mosasaur from the Smoky Hill Chalk | The 1996 dig of a 20' Platecarpus tympaniticus from the upper Smoky Hill Chalk - New page with pictures of the prepared skull here. | Updated 01/00 |
| Page 13 | The Discovery of the first Mosasaur | Digging up a huge mosasaur skull.... found underground in a mine in the Netherlands! | Posted 10/97 |
| Page 14a | Linking the Past with the Present - Line drawings of Platecarpus coryphaeus | Re-publishing Samuel W. Williston's 100 year old mosasaur drawings from The University Geological Survey of Kansas on the web. | Updated 11/30/97 |
| Page 14b | Tylosaurus proriger | Re-publishing Samuel W. Williston's 100 year old mosasaur drawings from The University Geological Survey of Kansas on the web. | Added 11/97 |
| Page 14c | Clidastes velox | Re-publishing Samuel W. Williston's 100 year old mosasaur drawings from The University Geological Survey of Kansas on the web. | Added 11/97 |
| Page 14d | Mosasaurus horridus | Re-publishing Samuel W. Williston's 100 year old mosasaur drawings from The University Geological Survey of Kansas on the web. | Added 11/97 |
| Page 15a | Something about Plesiosaurs. | Plesiosaur remains are relatively rare and their skulls are even harder to find. | Added 12/08/97 |
| Page 15b | Something about Pliosaurs. | Several varieties of these short necked plesiosaurs have been found in Kansas, including a species of giant pliosaur with a five foot long skull. | Added 12/05/98 |
| Page 16a | The New Jersey State Museum Plesiosaur | The dig of a large Alzadasaurus elasmosaur from the Pierre Shale of Western Kansas | Added 01/10/98 |
| Page 16b | We complete the New Jersey State Museum Plesiosaur Dig: 1992. | We finish up the dig on the New Jersey State Museum Alzadasaurus..... then we start a dig on a second Alzadasaurus! | Added 06/27/98 |
| Page 17 | Cretoxyrhina mantelli - The Giant Ginsu Shark | This formidable Cretaceous shark "sliced and diced" its meals | Added 03/01/98 |
| Page 18 | A lot more evidence of Cretoxyrhina mantelli feeding on mosasaurs | Fossilized parts and pieces of mosasaurs eaten by giant sharks | Added 03/11/98 |
| Page 19 | Ancient sharks: Cretoxyrhina mantelli and Squalicorax falcatus | Many large and hungry sharks swam in the shallow sea that once covered Kansas. Here are some pictures of the teeth of these sharks | Added 01/04/98 |
| Page 20 | Kansas Geologic Time Scale | A geological time scale Kansas from the Kansas Geological Survey | Posted 4/00 |
| Page 21 | Are snakes related to mosasaurs? | An article about the relationships between snakes and mosasaurs | Posted 2/98 |
| Page 22 | Xiphactinus audax - The Bulldog Fish | One of the largest bony fishes that ever lived...Found in Kansas! | Updated 11/99 |
| page 23 | Hesperornis - Giant Birds in the Western Interior Sea | Drawings of a large swimming bird.......with teeth! | Updated 12/99 |
| Page 24 | Mosasaurus - The Ultimate Mosasaur | On a dig for Mosasaurus in South Dakota | Added 4/97 |
| Page 25 | Sharks Teeth by the Hundreds | An article by Tom Caggiano of the New Jersey Paleontological Society | Added 5/06/97 |
| Page 26 | We Dug Plesiosaurs | In the Pierre Shale with Dr. Glenn Storrs and the Cincinnati Museum field crew, June, 1998 | Added 6/98 |
| Page 27 | Finding my first mosasaur in South Dakota | With The Field School from the South Dakota School of Mines | Added 9/98 |
| Page 28 | The Ptychodontid Sharks | Teeth and other remains from an usual group of 'pavement-toothed' sharks or rays from the Late Cretaceous in Kansas (and England). | Added 12/98 |
| Page 29 | The paleo-life art of Doug Henderson | Mosasaurs, Pteranodons and Plesiosaurs from the Western Interior Seaway. | Updated 12/99 |
| Page 30 | The Bunker Mosasaur | The exhibit of a huge Tylosaur at the KU Museum of Natural History | Added 12/98 |
| Page 31 | Foul-ups, Bloops and Blunders | A "Just for Fun" photographic tour of my early days in the chalk | Updated 7/24/98 |
| Page 32 | Abstracts of Publications | Paleontology Papers by Mike and Pam Everhart | Updated 010/99 |
| Page 33 | 1999 Cincinnati Museum Plesiosaur Dig | Take a look at the dig of a plesiosaur from the Pierre Shale of western Kansas. | Added 6/99 |
| Page 34 | Mosasaurs from Sweden? | Click here to see where Johan Lindgren found them. | Added 7/99 |
| Page 35 | FOR SALE: Oceans of Kansas T-shirts | Original Mosasaur art by Russell Hawley on Oceans of Kansas T-Shirts | Added 9/99 |
| Page 36 | Published references about marine reptiles | My collection of paleontology papers on mosasaurs and plesiosaurs | Added 10/99 |
| Page 37 | The type specimen of Halisaurus sternbergi | From the Smoky Hill chalk of Kansas, in a museum in Sweden!! - courtesy of Johan Lindgren | Added 10/99 |
| Page 38 | Large North Dakota Plioplatecarpus | Courtesy of John Campbell, North Dakota Geological Survey: Maybe a new species. | Added 10/99 |
| Page 39 | Gastroliths? You mean they ate rocks? | Stomach stones from Kansas Plesiosaurs | Added 11/99 |
| Page 40 | South Dakota Mosasaurs | The mosasaur collection at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology - Museum of Geology. | Added 12/99 |
| Page 41 | Fossils from Antarctica | Pictures of fossils collected from Vega Island in 1999 | Added 01/00 |
| Page 42 | Platecarpus skull | New pictures from the 1996 dig and prep. of material | Added 01/00 |
| Page 41 | Mesozoic marine monsters of Mangahouanga | New Zealand Mosasaurs and Marine Reptiles | Added 05/00 |
| Page 42 | One day in the life of a mosasaur.... | Paleo-fiction by Mike Everhart | |
| Page 43 | Sam Noble Museum of Natural History | A new museum in Oklahoma - art by Karen Carr | |
| Page 44 | Dan Varner Paleo-Life Art Page | Excellent art work on extinct marine reptiles.. | |
| Page 45 | Prognathodon overtoni | A mosasaur skull at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | |
| Page 46 | Styxosaurus snowii | An elasmosaur exhibit at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | |
| Page 47 | The Denver Museum Plesiosaur | Pictures of Thalassomedon haningtoni at the Denver Museum | |
| Page 48 | Anatomy of a Plesiosaurus Skull | An 1896 drawing is used to illustrate the bones of a plesiosaur skull. | |
| Page 49 | Placodonts: Bizarre 'Walrus-Turtles' | from the Jurassic: Contributed Web paper by Darren Naish | |
| Page 50 | The Mosasaurus of Dr. August Goldfuss | One of the first mosasaur discoveries reported from the West. | Added 10/21/00 |
| Page 51 | Mosasaurs: Last of the great marine reptiles | Mosasaur article published in Prehistoric Times | Added 10/26/00 |
| Page 52 | A jaw plate of a Ptychodus mortoni shark | Shell crushing sharks from the Smoky Hill Chalk | Added 11/12/00 |
| Page 53 | The origin of the dorsal fringe in mosasaurs | Sometimes the experts made mistakes | Added 2/02/00 |
| Page 54 | The dig of an early Tylosaurus proriger | An extensive update of one of the original OOK pages - New pictures. | Added 01/01/01 |
| Page 55 | Clidastes propython | An nice example of a small mosasaur from the Western Interior Sea (Kansas). | Added 01/15/01 |
| Page 56 | Plioplatecarpus: A new Kansas mosasaur | A new genus from the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale. | Added 01/15/01 |
| Page 57 | Shonisaurus popularis | The Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada: Very large Triassic ichthyosaurs | Added 06/04/01 |
| Page 58 | Coprolites and fossilized gut contents | Trace fossils from the Smoky Hill Chalk Formation | Added 06/19/01 |
| Page 59 | The New Jersey Paleontological Society | 2001 Field Trip in Kansas -- on the road again......... | Added 07/21/01 |
| Page 60 | Plesiosaur stomach contents and gastroliths | From the Pierre Shale of Kansas - New publication | Added 10/20/01 |
| Page 61 | The other George Sternberg | Medical Doctor, U.S. Army Surgeon General, and fossil collector. | Added 11/28/01 |
| Page 62 | The Goldfuss Mosasaur | An English translation of this important 1845 work by Dr. August Goldfuss. | Added 12/30/01 |
| Page 63 | ePapers on the Internet | Scanned versions of older paleontology papers dealing with Kansas fossils | Added 01/26/02 |
| Page 64 | Tylosaurus nepaeolicus | New data on cranial measurements and body length (Recent publication) | Added 04/07/02 |
| Page 65 | Where the elasmosaurs roam | Separating fact from fiction (Recent publication in Prehistoric Times) | Added 04/08/02 |
| Page 66 | The discovery of a GIANT Ginsu | (Cretoxyrhina mantelli) Shark in Western Kansas - BIG NEWS | Added 05/26/02 |
| Page 67 | Oceans of Kansas T-shirts | A brief history of Oceans of Kansas as seen through our field T-shirts. | Added 07/15/02 |
| Page 68 | Russell Hawley Paleo-Art | Pen and ink art depicting Mesozoic marine reptiles | Added 08/07/02 |
| Page 69 | Ctenacanthus Agassiz 1835 | A Permian Shark - Discovery of Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope in Kansas | Added 08/28/02 |
| Page 70 | ePapers regarding the first discovery | ...and the naming of North American plesiosaurs. Joseph Leidy - E. D. Cope | Added 10/11/02 |
| Page 71 | The discovery of Elasmosaurus platyurus | ...and the "head-on-the-wrong-end" mistake of E. D. Cope | Added 10/15/02 |
| Page 72 | Protosphyraena... a primitive swordfish | ...from the Late Cretaceous of Western Kansas | Added 10/19/02 |
| Page 73 | Dr. John H. Janeway, Surgeon, U. S. Army | Early Kansas paleontologist - Fort Hays, Kansas | Added 10/23/02 |
| Page 74 | Brachauchenius lucasi | Giant Cretaceous pliosaur from Kansas | Added 11/30/02 |
| Page 75 | Revisions to mosasaur biostratigraphy | Revisions based on recent discoveries of new mosasaur specimens in Kansas | Added 01/03/03 |
| Page 76 | How to collect vertebrate fossils | An interesting 1884 article by Charles H. Sternberg | Added 03/21/03 |
| Page 77 | 4th Annual Paleontology Symposium | 2003 Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science - Paleontology Abstracts | Added 04/18/03 |
| Page 78 | A dinosaur from the Smoky Hill Chalk | Niobrarasaurus coleii comes to the Sternberg Museum | Added 05/10/03 |
| Page 79 | Enchodus | The sabre-toothed fish of the Cretaceous | Added 10/26/03 |
| Page 80 | Sharks teeth found in Kansas | A photographic survey of Kansas shark teeth - new discoveries! | Added 11/10/03 |
| Page 81 | Permian shark teeth found in Kansas | Sharks teeth collected from the Early Permian of northeast Kansas | Added 11/10/03 |
| Page 82 | An extinct sea lizard from western Kansas | Charles Gilmore ePaper (1921) on a Tylosaurus in the Smithsonian Institute. | Added 11/10/03 |
| Page 83 | First records of plesiosaurs from the lower | Smoky Hill Chalk of Western Kansas - recent publication by Mike Everhart | Added 11/10/03 |
| Page 84 | Ichthyornis: "Fish-bird of the Cretaceous" | Birds with teeth. | Added 11/23/03 |
| Page 85 | Toxochelys, Protostega and Archelon | Marine turtles from the Western Interior Sea. | Added 12/31/03 |
| Page 86 | Saurocephalus, Saurodon, Prosaurodon | Strange swordfish from the Western Interior Sea | Added 02/05/04 |
| Page 87 | Kronosaurus queenslandicus | Giant Cretaceous pliosaur from Australia | ???? |
| Page 88 | Thryptodus zittlei | Battering ram fish from the Cretaceous of Kansas | ??? |
| Page 89 | Discovery of Mosasaurus hoffmanni | One of the first papers written about a mosasaur (Saint Fond - 1799) | Added 06/19/04 |
| Page 90 | Pycnodonts and Hadrodus | Rare smaller fish in the Cretaceous preserved in Kansas rocks | Added 06/27/04 |
| Page 91 | Cimolichthys nepaholicus | The "barracuda" of the Western Interior Sea | Added 07/29/04 |
| Page 92 | The Smoky Hill Chalk | A photographic tour of Smoky Hill Chalk exposures in western Kansas | Added 09/26/04 |
| Page 93 | Mosasaurs ate plesiosaurs | A Tylosaurus that was discovered with a plesiosaur as it's last meal. | Added 09/26/04 |
| Page 94 | Kansas plesiosaurs | Plesiosaur specimens from the Cretaceous of Kansas | Added 10/06/04 |
| Page 95 | Charles H. Sternberg | The discoveries of the famous fossil collector from Kansas | Added 10/13/04 |
| Page 96 | Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Ctr. | A new Colorado musuem with lots of fossils from the Kansas Cretaceous | Added 11/18/04 |
| Page 97 | Prognathodon in Kansas? | One of the earliest and relatively unknown Kansas mosasaurs | Added 02/26/05 |
| Page 98 | Another Kansas Dinosaur! | Recent discovery of hadrosaur vertebrae from the chalk of Gove County, KS | Added 06/19/05 |
| Page 99 | A snake drawn through the shell of a turtle | The usage and history of the classic phrase describing plesiosaurs | Added 10/26/05 |
| Page 100 | Evolution and diversification of mosasaurs | New webpage on the evolution of mosasaurs at the end of the Cretaceous | Added 12/03/05 |
| Page 101 | Discovery of Elasmosaurus: New remains? | Are the remains found nearby the missing pieces of Elasmosaurus platyurus? | Added 12/03/05 |
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