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06/27/04  Pycnodonts and Hadrodus - Rare smaller fish in the Cretaceous seas of Kansas.

06/19/04  One of the first papers written (Saint Fond, 1799) about the discovery of a mosasaur - A translation by Jean Michel-Benoit

02/05/04  Saurocephalus, Saurodon and Prosaurodon - "Sword-eels" of the Late Cretaceous sea.

12/31/03  Marine turtles from the Smoky Hill Chalk and Pierre Shale: Toxochelys, Protostega, Archelon and others.

11/23/03  Ichthyornis: "Fish-bird" of the Late Cretaceous   - One of the "birds with teeth" from the Smoky Hill Chalk.

11/08/03  First records of plesiosaurs from the lower Smoky Hill Chalk of Western Kansas - Recent publication by Mike Everhart

10/22/03  An Extinct Sea Lizard from Western Kansas - Charles Gilmore (1921) ePaper describing the Tylosaurus exhibit at the Smithsonian.

09/07/03  Permian Sharks of Kansas. Really cool... and important, recent discoveries of Permian shark remains by Keith Ewell.

09/01/03  Kansas Sharks: Identifications of lots of Kansas shark teeth: Some never reported from Kansas until now.   

 05/10/03  The discovery of  new bones for an old dinosaur from the Smoky Hill Chalk - Niobrarasaurus coleii. 

 04/18/03  Fourth Annual (2003) Kansas Academy of Science Paleontology Symposium Abstracts.

07/15/02    Oceans of Kansas T-shirts - A brief history of Oceans of Kansas Paleontology as seen through our field T-shirts.

05/26/02   The discovery of a GIANT Ginsu (Cretoxyrhina mantelli) Shark in Western Kansas - BIG NEWS

04/08/02   Where the elasmosaurs roam: Separating fact from fiction:  (Recent publication in Prehistoric Times)

04/07/02   Tylosaurus nepaeolicus -  New data on cranial measurements and body length (Recent publication)

11/28/01  The other George Sternberg:  Medical Doctor, U.S. Army General, U. S. Surgeon General, and fossil collector.

10/20/01   Plesiosaur stomach contents and gastroliths from the Pierre Shale  of Kansas - New publication

07/21/01  The New Jersey Paleontological Society 2001 Field Trip in Kansas - On the road again.........

06/19/01  Coprolites and fossilized gut contents - Trace fossils from the Smoky Hill Chalk Formation

06/04/01 Shonisaurus popularis - The Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada -  Very large Triassic ichthyosaurs

01/15/01 Plioplatecarpus: A new genus of mosasaur from Kansas -  From the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale.

01/15/01 Clidastes propython -  An nice example of a small mosasaur from the Western Interior Sea (Kansas).

01/01/01 The dig of an early Tylosaurus proriger -  An extensive update of one of the original OOK pages - New pictures.

12/02/00 The origin of the dorsal fringe in mosasaurs; 1898 - Sometimes the experts made mistakes.

11/12/00 The jaw plate of a Ptychodus mortoni shark - Shell crushing sharks from the Smoky Hill Chalk

Placodonts: The Bizarre 'Walrus-Turtles' of the Jurassic -  Contributed paper by Darren Naish

Anatomy of a Plesiosaurus Skull - An 1896 drawing is used to illustrate the bones of a plesiosaur skull.

One day in the life of a mosasaur.... Paleo-fiction by Mike Everhart

Mesozoic Marine Monsters of Mangahouanga - New Zealand Mosasaurs and Marine Reptiles

Gastroliths?..... You mean they ate rocks?  Stomach stones from Kansas Plesiosaurs

A Very Large Plioplatecarpus from North Dakota:  Courtesy of John Campbell, NDGS

The type specimen of Halisaurus sternbergi, in Sweden!! - courtesy of Johan Lindgren

Published references about marine reptiles -  My collection of paleontology papers.

FOR SALE  -  ORIGINAL MOSASAUR ART   ON OCEANS OF KANSAS T-SHIRTS

The 1999 Cincinnati Museum of Natural History Dig on a Kansas Plesiosaur

The Unofficial Virtual Tour of the new Sternberg Museum of Natural History

A virtual museum tour of mosasaur specimens from Kansas and around the U.S

Finding My First Mosasaur in South Dakota - In the Pierre Shale with the Field School from the South Dakota School of Mines.

Abstracts of Publications by Mike and Pam Everhart

.A Moment in Time - Evidence of Shark Predation on Mosasaurs - Watch for "Ancient Sharks" on  TLC's Paleoworld)

One Day in the Western Interior Sea.....Life could be very short for the unwary.

Illustrated....A Field Guide to Fossils of the Smoky Hill Chalk - Part 1 - Invertebrates and Fish

Illustrated....A Field Guide to Fossils of the Smoky Hill Chalk - Part 2 - Reptiles and Birds

A Dig for a Giant Pteranodon - Western Kansas - 1996 - The find of a young male Pteranodon with a 20' wingspread.

UPDATED 11/30/98 Martinichthys - The Mystery Fish of the Smoky Hill Chalk - These strange fish didn't leave much for us to find.... only their 'noses'

Another Recent Mosasaur Discovery!!! Lots of Photos of a Platecarpus planifrons from the Smoky Hill chalk. Check back for an update on the pictures of this unique specimen.

Globidens sp.; The Discovery of a Rare, Shell Crushing Mosasaur from the Pierre Shale of Kansas The page now includes the only known published photos of the type specimen of Globidens dakotensis in the Field Museum, Chicago, IL.

The Earliest Record for Clidastes sp. (Mosasaur) - A New York teenager finds the earliest documented record of a   Clidastes liodontus in the Smoky Hill Chalk of Western Kansas

We Finally Complete the Dig of the big Tylosaurus proriger - A New Record for a Very Large Mosasaur - Reported at the 1997 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Chicago

Platecarpus tympaniticus -The 1996 dig of the shark scavenged remains of a 20' mosasaur from the Smoky Hill Chalk.  New pictures added 01/30/00.

The First Discovery of a Mosasaur - Digging up a huge mosasaur skull..... Mosasaurus hoffmanni  - found underground in a mine in 1770!

Linking the Past with the Present -  Re-publishing Samuel W. Williston's 100 year old mosasaur drawings from The University Geological Survey of Kansas on the web.

Something about Plesiosaurs - Plesiosaur remains are relatively rare and their skulls are even harder to find.

Something about Pliosaurs  - Remains from these "short-necked" plesiosaurs have been found in Kansas and include one species with a 5 foot long skull!

The New Jersey State Museum Plesiosaur - The dig of a large Styxosaurus elasmosaur from the Pierre Shale of Western Kansas in 1991-92.

We complete the New Jersey State Museum Plesiosaur Dig: 1992 - The New Jersey State Museum field crew returns to finish the dig of a large Styxosaurus elasmosaur from the Pierre Shale of Western Kansas.

"We Dug Plesiosaurs" - A 1998 plesiosaur dig in the Pierre Shale of Western Kansas with the field crew from the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History.

Cretoxyrhina mantelli......The Ginsu Shark   - The "Jaws" of the Late Cretaceous oceans. It sliced and diced!

More evidence of Cretoxyrhina mantelli feeding on mosasaurs - Parts and Pieces

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.

Ptychodontid sharks - Strange, "pavement-toothed", shell-crushing sharks from Cretaceous deposits of Kansas (and from England)

A "Just for Fun" photographic tour  of my early days and finds in the chalk. From a fossil fish, a shark and a couple of mosasaurs in the 1970's to lots of interesting things in the 1980's.

The new "Bunker Mosasaur" Exhibit - at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History.  The remains of a huge Kansas Tylosaurus proriger go on display ninety years after they were discovered!  (As seen on Paleoworld)

LINKS TO CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES ABOUT KANSAS FOSSILS

Ptychodontid Sharks Teeth by the Hundreds  A nice specimen of Ptychodus anonymous found by and reported on by Tom Caggiano of the New Jersey Paleontological Society.  Tom has added pictures of a beautiful set of Protosphyraena perniciosa fins from his 1998 field work in Kansas.

LINKS TO OTHER KANSAS PALEONTOLOGY SITES

Fossil Insects from Kansas by Roy Beckemeyer - Insect pictures from the historic Elmo Site.  Also visit Winds of Kansas

The Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University - The historic Sternberg Museum opened in at its new location in March of 1999. Check out their webpage and see what they are doing!

The Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas:   Click here to see what they are doing with their  Dinosaur Project.   They have a whole 'family' of Camarasaurus.

The Keystone Gallery -- Take a look at a website with fossils from the chalk and Western Kansas art. The gallery is located on the south rim of the Smoky Hill River valley, overlooking a scenic view of Monument Rocks (the Chalk Pyramids) and fossil outcroppings of the "Badlands of Kansas" region.

The Fick Fossil and History Museum - A great place to visit (Oakley) if you are traveling I-70 through Kansas ..... The museum exhibits include Western Kansas fossils and local history. This is the museum that received the remains of the earliest documented Tylosaurus proriger (see above)

The Kansas Academy of Science Homepage - Information regarding the Kansas Academy of Science, including an innovative on-line publication of published papers (Transactions) and links to various private, governmental and institutional sites in many scientific fields.

LINKS TO OTHER PALEONTOLOGY SITES AND INFORMATION

05/17/03 Adam Stuart Smith's Sea_Saur Page

11/26/01 Natural Selection - Quality Internet resources relating to the Natural World (Natural History Museum, London)

06/19/01 Dipartimento di Scienze, della Terra Universitą degli Studi di Milano - An Italian paleontology website - Well done!

04/19/01 Earth History Portal - Your portal to the past   - Links to Paleontology websites.

02/01/01 RULERS OF THE JURASSIC SEAS - By Ryosuke Motani in   Scientific American, with illustrated by Karen Carr

11/09/00 Looking at a career in Paleontology?  Check out this site from the Dinosaur Mailing List

10/30/00 Betsy Nicholls and the giant Canadian ichthyosaur -  Laureate of the 9th Rolex Awards for Enterprise

09/26/00 Fossils from the Albian (Gault Clay and uppermost Lower Greendsand) of Kent, UK - Jim Craig's new site.   

09/01/00 Morden and District Museum -  The largest collection of marine reptile fossils in Canada.

08/22/00 The New Jersey Paleontological Society Website - Lots of field trips and interesting activities.

08/17/00 The discovery of a large mosasaur in the Netherlands -  Latest information on a possible new species

07/27/00 Discovering Dinosaurs - Discovery.com - Lesson plans for Kindergarten through  6th Grade: Neat stuff!

06/05/00  Marine reptiles: Photographs at the University of Oslo, Norway: Photographs of European specimens

05/15/00  Marine Reptiles of South Dakota - The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

05/15/00  Plesiosaurs in the Jurassic Seas  University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences

05/15/00 Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates -  John Damuth's index of published literature on vertebrate paleontology

The Websurfer's Weekly Earth Science Review -  A great place to find what's new!

The Web Resource for Geology and Paleontology - A non-commercial resource site

The Plesiosaur Site -  Richard Forrest's listing of plesiosaur specimens and research

Mosasaurs from Sweden? Click here to see where Johan Lindgren found them - Also includes some of Johan's original mosasaur art work.

For more information on all kinds of plesiosaurs, take a look at  Ben Creisler's Plesiosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide , a neat page  found in  the  DINOSAUR ON LINE - DINOSAUR OMNIPEDIA

Dinosaur Illustrated Magazine - Berislav Krzic does a great job with dinosaur illustrations in his DIM website... now he's even got a mosasaur.......

Ray Ancog's Plesiosaur FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)  - Interesting information about plesiosaurs.... Check it out.

An Ichthyosaur from Wyoming and other paleontology information on Judy Massare's Homepage at SUNY Take a look at the preparation of a Baptodon Ichthyosaur from the Sundance Formation of Wyoming.

The discovery of a new specimen of Mosasaurus hoffmanni in the Netherlands -This new mosasaur was found near the place that the first mosasaur was found over 200 years ago!

For information published about mosasaurs, take a look at the list of references in Michael Fastnacht's library on his homepage.

Plesiosaur References   - A listing of publications related to plesiosaurs from Barry Kazmer's Plesiosaur Paleontology web site.

Australian Mesozoic Marine Reptiles - Dann Pigdon's page about plesiosaurs, pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs from Down Under.

MEGALANIA - Larry Dunn's webpage - an up-to-date and interesting collection of paleontology links and other fun stuff. Hey, what else do you need to say about a webpage that has a 10 foot long Komodo Dragon as a mascot (or guard-lizard)??  Check out his Dino-TV Week page for the latest schedule for dino shows on the tube!!

LOST WORLDS - Brian Franczak's excellent Paleolife-Art webpage featuring the latest of his dinosaur art, as well as links to other paleolife-art sites. Take a look at his page of "OTHER MESOZOIC DENIZENS" (non-dinosaurs....including some marine reptiles)

Plesiosaur Paleontology - Barry Kazmer's webpage about fossils found in the Dakota Rose Quarry, on the eastern edge of South Dakota.... from a rocky, ancient shore of the Western Interior Seaway, 90 million years ago. Very unexpected place to find some really neat fossils!

Paul Heinrich's Louisiana Fossil Page - Some of the latest information about the geology and paleontology of Louisiana (and Mississippi), plus lots of other resources and links..... It is worth a visit. I'm sure you'll find something interesting there!

The Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas -Austin - Check out this 30 foot long Mosasaurus maximus from Texas - The Onion Creek Mosasaur.

The Pterosaur Home Page - All about Pterosaurs! David Peters takes a look at how Pterosaurs lived. Excellent information from a guy who knows his Pteranodons. Great site!

The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science - A growing and very well run paleontology program. Take a look and see that they have in their vertebrate paleontology section.

The Canadian Museum of Nature - The Canadian Museum of Nature has some very interesting dinosaurs on their new website. Lots of information here!

The Life and Times of Long Dead Sharks - Excellent site for Miocene-Pleistocene sharks and other marine fossils from the Lee Creek area of eastern North Carolina by Jim Bourdon. Lots of links to interesting shark sites around the world. Formally the "Lee Creek aka Aurora" shark site.

"JAWS" - THE EARLY YEARS - Michael E. Williams (Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History) spins an interesting story about Devonian shark fossils found in the Cleveland area, and explains in detail about the various teeth and feeding mechanisms that have evolved in sharks. Excellent site!

Alabama Dinosaurs -This site not only talks about the (neglected - ed.) dinosaurs from the East Coast of North America, but also has a lot of information about what may have happened to the dinosaurs. Good place to learn about the how, who and when of dinosaurs on the East Coast.

The Museum of the Rockies  - Where Jack Horner, the world famous paleontologist, hangs out with a bunch of spectacular fossils.....It is mostly about dinosaurs but hey, they do have a neat mosasaur, too. Lots of pictures and an update on the 1998 field season. Check it out!

Paleontology Links - All the way from the University of Geneva in Switzerland (in English).....with an evaluation and rating for each site....very well done!

The Gateway Country Fossil Page - Fossil Hunting (Dinosaurs) in the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada......

Fossil Collections of the World - Paleontology Resources; One of the best paleo info and link pages I've seen so far!....

The Geology Museum at the University of Wisconsin - One of our Kansas mosasaurs has found a good home in the North Country, inside the UW natural history museum where it is warm in the Winter!........

"The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette"  -  Strange name for a really kewl site!

Links for Paleobotanists - A very large and well done site with lists of informational resources about paleobotany and geology.

Geology Links - Take a look at "Christof Kuhn's Geology-Page". A very well done and informative webpage. Geology links from around the world. Chris is a student at the University Agricultural Sciences in Vienna, Austria. In English and German

Paleontology in North Dakota - Take a look at Johnathan's dig of a mosasaur called Plioplatecarpus, the largest ever found and possibly a new species!!! Lots of other neat stuff, too!

OTHER EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

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ADDED 01/13/98...The School Page; The Educators Resource.

Check out the button for the "Dinosaurs and Fossils" page.  Ask Mike your paleontology questions! (or not.. you call always email me direct)

.....and last but not least, AWARDED to Oceans of Kansas Paleontology on January 13, 1998......

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