Dinosaurs - Adaptation Gallery: Geologic Time

· Click the ROLL DINOS button to roll your dice.
· Click the HOLD button to record your score.
· Roll a Spinosaurus Spinosaurus Dice

and you lose your current score and your turn.
· Roll double T-rex T rex dice

and lose everything! Chomp!
· Make sure to click HOLD button if score is equal to or over 100 to win!

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Player 2

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65 million years ago

Most of the dinosaur fossils found in North Dakota come from the Hell Creek Formation in the southwest part of the state. Paleontologists working in the Hell Creek Formation experience the beauty and ruggedness of the badlands, where it gets hot and dry in the summer when they do field work. They sometimes hike long distances to a site and carry lots of water, so they don’t get dehydrated or heat sick. Fossils that are large or fragile have plaster jackets put on them to help hold them together.

Triceratops dig

Paleontologists carry the jacketed fossils back to their trucks. Once they return to the lab, they clean the fossils to get a better look at them. Then they can reassemble them, preserve them, and prepare them for exhibit or storage where they are available for further study.

Exposed rocks from the Hell Creek Formation can be found in the North Dakota badlands in the southwestern part of the state. Sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone in the eroded badlands are rich in fossil materials.