I love Ghost Ranch. It is one of my favorite fossil formations that deposit dinosaur and pterosaur fossils from the Mesozoic Era alongside the Morrison Formation, Hell Creek Formation, La Amarga Formation and Nemegt Formation. Ghost Ranch deposits the fossils of Coelophysis, Plateosaurus, Liliensternus, Placerias and Isanosaurus plus Peteniosaurus the same dinosaur and pterosaur species from the Walking With Dinosaurs (1999) episode, "A New Blood."

Though dated today, Ned Colbert books were among my favorites as a youngster, especially when talking about the Dinosaur Wars.

@paulmatulavich7321

2 жыл бұрын

In addition to being a pathfinder in the field of paleontology, Ned Colbert was a gifted writer who could weave prose better than most novelists. I love his book on the dinosuars of ghost ranch.

Forget the dinosaurs (as cool as Coelophysis is), the most amazing animals in the Chinle formation are all the non-dinosaur archosaurs - the phytosaurs, the aetosaurs, the rauisuchians & other crocodile-line archosaurs! Amazing animals, some every bit as large and formidable as later dinosaurs but for whatever reason almost completely unknown to most people. Hell, even the amphibians of the Ghost Ranch assemblage are amazing.. some of the metoposaurs being as large (and would likely have behaved like) as large crocodiles living today.

Thanks for so much information so well presented. When I came to Ghost Ranch with a class from U of NM we were invited into the inner sanctum of the lab and given a short lecture. The part of that lecture that stuck with me most was about feathers! How our modern-day birds have evolved from some species of dinosaurs. Maybe we humans could learn something about survival from the dinosaurs.

This is awsome!

very cool!

My grandfather George whitaker is the one who found him

@paulmatulavich7321

2 жыл бұрын

What an honor to be related to such a great man. You must be very proud, and the world is wiser due to men like him.

Are there any ghost dinosaur hauntings?

@eddiewilliams7171

5 жыл бұрын

If thy do be cool thy need ghost dinosaur s

@Sh3lbz

4 жыл бұрын

I’m wandering the same thing. You see paranormal from humans that have passed on but dinosaurs have lived MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH LONGER than humans have. Humans compared to the dinosaurs species is just beginning...nobody never seen no dinosaur ghost tho. So it doesn’t make sense.

@timarcella

Жыл бұрын

@@Sh3lbz What doesnt make sense is your entire comment.

I have this story in my book

Did dinosaurs became ghost when an astro killed them

Fortunately, these guys are already dead, so museum staff can't kill them.