Re: marine vertebrate collections

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:12:55   
 T. Lepore wrote:
>
>--- Alan Blake Coulson <abcoulso@unity.ncsu.edu>
>wrote:
>> hi- does anyone happen to know of any museums with
>> nice collections of
>> marine vertebrates from the Cretaceous Western
>> Interior Seaway? I'm aware
>> of some of the obvious places (Field Museum, Tyrell,
>> etc), but I'm sure
>> there are some smaller museums that I have
>> overlooked. Thanks for any
>> suggestions.

>The HMNH (Harvard Museum of Natural History) has its
>famous full-size mounted Kronosaurus, which is from
>the Cretaceous--but not the Western Interior Seaway,
>unfortunetely.  It's from Queensland, Australia. 
>Still, it may be of interest to you.  A great mount. 
>There are also many fossil fish specimens there, some
>of which may be from the CWIS.  

BTW, there was an excellent article on the Harvard Kronosaurus in two recent 
issues of Fossil News (February and March 2001) written by Allen Debus.  

And, speaking of marine reptiles...keep the list warm for me, as I am leaving 
for France tomorrow! :-)  I think that Cuvier's Mosasaurus is still on display 
at the museum of natural history in Paris...at least I hope.

Steve

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