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Northern NY News
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Monday, 09 November 2009 08:42 |
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CANTON - John Hoganson, North Dakota state paleontologist, will deliver
the Susan Carolyn Ferguson Lecture in Geology at St. Lawrence
University, "Dinosaur Ecology of the Hell Creak Formation in North
Dakota." The talk, open to the public free of charge, will be on
Tuesday, November 17, at 8 p.m. in Bloomer Auditorium (Room 122) of
Brown Hall. It is suitable for all ages.
Hoganson is responsible for curation of the famous "mummified"
dinosaur called "Dakota," subject of the National Geographic special
"Dino Autopsy." The Hell Creek Formation is Latest Cretaceous in age
and contains fossils of life found just before the great extinction
event that closed the reign of dinosaurs on Earth. Hoganson will speak
about both plants and animals from that period of time, which is well
preserved in North Dakota's badlands.
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