GEOL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Adobe After Effects, Triceratops, Theropoda
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Local school teacher named arthur lakes found the greatest fossil to date. Knowing cope and marsh were at war, he wrote a letter to both. Paid as soon as he received the letter. Apatosaurus deceptive lizard : first ever sauropod or long neck dinosaur. Marsh did not find a head though. First to this site and began excavating. A larger species sauropod than marsh"s find. First finds in the jurassic period: como bluff. Discovered to be far larger than originally thought. Two union pacific railroad workers informed marsh of this. They were hired and paid for thousands of new fossils. Both sides were armed and kept watch over their sites: marsh even blew up bones that weren"t extractable, como bluffs. During the jurassic, it was similar to the mississippi. Flood and overflow its banks burying animals quickly: marsh discovered some of the most famous dinosaurs in this formation. 1880"s: cope and marsh had spent millions on finding dinosaurs.
