dino localities in fiction

[chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>]

This is perhaps only tangentially related to dinosaurs, but some of
y'all might be interested.

I've been reading Harry Turtledove's alternative history of World War
I.  Because the Confederacy won the Civil War with early British and
French recognition (in part), we have a CSA allied with Britain and
France and a USA allied with Germany in 1914.  Hence, we get trench
warfare in Belgium, France, Poland, Quebec, Kentucky, Virginia....

...and Texas.  The surprise here is that, in the latest volume, the
front line passes through a little town in the Panhandle called Post.  I
doubt Turtledove put it there because of the quarries producing
Postosuchus and Protoavis, but I have to wonder.  I've seen famous
paleontological locales in fiction before, but this is one of the more
obscure ones.


chris
  



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