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Hunting for 95 million year old lizards and snakes on the island of Hvar, Croatia:

Hunting for 95 million year old lizards and snakes on the island of Hvar, Croatia: Dalmatian Coast & Adriatic Sea. Michael Caldwell, Arjun Keswani, Jakov Radovcic, Katarina Krismanjic, Murray Gingras, Cajus Diedrich, Alex Dutchak, Timon Bullard, Anne Schulp. Funding:

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Hunting for 95 million year old lizards and snakes on the island of Hvar, Croatia:

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  1. Hunting for 95 million year old lizards and snakes on the island of Hvar, Croatia: Dalmatian Coast & Adriatic Sea Michael Caldwell, Arjun Keswani, Jakov Radovcic, Katarina Krismanjic, Murray Gingras, Cajus Diedrich, Alex Dutchak, Timon Bullard, Anne Schulp Funding: National Geographic, CRE Grant & NSERC

  2. WE WENT LOOKING FOR MORE OF THESE….

  3. Aigialosaurus dalmaticus

  4. Opetiosaurus bucchichi

  5. Pontosaurus lesinensis

  6. The Island of Hvar… A difficult place to do Fieldwork…haaaa!!

  7. A Map

  8. Close-ups

  9. The Island, looking northwest

  10. Our village - Vrboska

  11. Fields of lavender

  12. Dr. Murray Gingras & Dr. Cajus Diedrich…on the rocks

  13. Our quarry: Al Lindoe & Anne Schulp (from Maastricht)

  14. Uvala Maslinica (Little Olive Bay)

  15. Vineyards, Stone Houses, and Rooves with fossils on the shingles… …a new collecting technique?

  16. Algae

  17. …trace fossils of ancient shrimp

  18. Timon Bullard Dinosaur Trackway Uvala Zukova Dr. Michael Caldwell Alex Dutchak Dr. Diedrich

  19. Other Fossils

  20. Some of the invertebrates SNAIL OYSTER

  21. Some of the Fishes

  22. New marine lizard…no snakes

  23. Pontosaurus lesinensis - new specimen

  24. The Ancient World of Hvar: Upper Cretaceous Shallow Marine Lagoons What did it really look like 95 million years ago?

  25. Open Ocean Patch Reefs Lagoon Barrier Reef Coast

  26. We find the fossil lizards, snakes, and Fishes in the lagoon portions…

  27. Shallow, high salt water, with low rates of rock formation, made for platy rocks with many fossils

  28. The Island, looking northwest

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