Re: reptile fossils in California?

[Dino Guy Ralph <dinoguyralph@earthlink.net>]

Adrienne "The First Fossil Hunters" Mayor asked about dinosaur fossils
in California.

If only someone would write a nice six page article on dinosaurs in
California and post it on the web for you.

Oh, wait... they did!

Read "Dinosaurs in California," an article by Frank De Courten of Sierra
College, which first appeared in 1997 in the California Academy of
Sciences magazine, _Pacific Discovery_ at
<www.sierra.cc.us/museum/Caldino.htm>.  Be sure to also click on all the
highlighted phrases (such as <"Chico" Formation>) for further articles,
photographs, and illustrations.

See also <www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/cretaceous/ptloma.html> and
<www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/fossils>.  At the latter site, click on any
phrase that includes "nodosaur" or "dinosaur."  I particularly enjoy the
illustrated little story, "Death of a Nodosaur," which tells the saga of
one armored dinosaur's postmortem frolics in the Pacific.  The panel,
"The bloated carcass floated belly-up in the Cretaceous sea," might be
printed out for use as a "Dear John" letter.

--------Ralph W. Miller III
            ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu

P.S. -- Thank you, Google