Wannagan Creek


Wannagan Creek
My favorite part of the Science Museum of MN is tucked away at the back of the paleontology wing. It’s a recreation of Wannagan Creek, a river that flowed through what is now the North Dakota badlands by Theodore Roosevelt National Park. People say the “Age of Reptiles” to describe dinosaurs, but the real age of reptiles was the few million years following the dinosaurs’ extinction, before mammals got so big. Wannagan Creek was home to three two different crocodilians and a choristoderan all occupying the same habitat. The large, apex-predator Borealosuchus (pictured), the little alligator Wannaganosuchus, who probably prowled the aquatic plants, and the large Champsosaur, Champsosaurus gigas, that probably fed on fish at the bottom of the river. It was also home to primitive primates, ungulates, turtles, snakes, all kinds of fish, and huge salamanders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannagan_Creek_site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealosuchus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannaganosuchus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champsosaurus

Comments

  1. Paul VermerenJuly 13, 2015 at 8:04 AM

    Ahem
    Champsosaurus was a choristoderan, not a crocodilian.
    (Adjusts glasses, puffs inhaler)

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  2. Andrew ShieldsJuly 13, 2015 at 8:23 AM

    On my RPG bucket list is playing a were-gator.

    My own proclivities map so well to gators and related creatures. Spend the day floating, looking like a dead log. Tuck food under a river bank, so you know where your next meal is coming from and you know it will be ripened to deliciousness. Get a 30 mph burst of speed if you really need one, and clamp down with jaws that are inexorable; but if gripped from the outside, those jaws can't open with the strength they use to close.

    Almost bulletproof. Double their weight every year they are alive. No natural predators.

    ::sigh::

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  3. Casey G.July 13, 2015 at 8:41 AM

    Goddammit Paul V.​

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