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Dr.
Sereno carefully excavating the skull of Carcharodontosaurus.
Location: Western
Morocco
Age
of fossil beds: Late
Cretaceous, 90 million years old
Primary
Goals: Investigate
beds from the time during which the African
continent was separating from South America
Accomplishments:
Discovery
of 36-foot long predator, Deltadromeus,
and 6-foot long skull of Carcharodontosaurus.
Dinosaur discoveries lend support to proposition
that dinosaur evolution cannot be neatly divided
into two subgroups
Scientific
Announcements:
Carcharodontosaurus - announced - May 13, 1996
Deltadromeus-
announced - May 13, 1996
Press
Release:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/96/
960513.dinosaur.shtml
Highlights:
"One of the most physically demanding expeditions
I have ever been on."- Paul Sereno
The expedition to Morocco yielded
two incredible finds: a skull of Carcharodontosaurus
and the new species Deltadromeus.
Team member Gabrielle Lyon discovered the skeleton
of Deltadromeus.
The trip
to Morocco wasn't as arduous as traveling across
the Sahara desert, but still required a long journey
with the trucks and equipment. Team members flew
to London, unpacked the equipment and loaded the
trucks in England, ferried to France and drove across
Spain, crossed the Mediterranean at Gibraltar, and
drove across Morocco
to finally begin the dig. |
