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Late Cretaceous Fauna

by

Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

Reference

t-din03-60010

Date

2010-04-25

Montana during the late Cretaceous. Near the shores of the Western Interior Seaway, a Parasaurolophus walkeri bellows a call, while an Ichthyornis dispar stands on the foreground sand (and flies in from above) at a safe distance from the crocodilian Leidyosuchus canadensis. In the distance, the decaying carcass of a Brachylophosaurus canadensis has attracted a huge azhdarchid pterodaur.