GEOL 104  Dinosaurs: A Natural History
Documentary Review I: The Dinosaurs!:  The Monsters Emerge

This video will be made accessible to you via Dial Access (in the Non-Print Media Room, on the fourth floor of Hornbake Library).

The order of the questions follows the sequence of the film.

1)	What was the profession of the men who discovered the original specimen of Mosasaurus?

2)  What sort of marine reptiles is Dr. Christopher McGowan searching for in the rocks surrounding Williston Lake? (Circle)
a.  ichthyosaurs	b. dinosaurs		c. plesiosaurs		d. mosasaurs

3)  According to legend, who first discovered the teeth of Iguanodon?

4)  The teeth of Iguanodon  indicate that this dinosaur was a [  carnivore  |  herbivore  ].

5)  How does the narrator  translate “Dinosauria”?
a.  giant crocodiles		b. terrible lizards		c. fearfully great lizards

6)  What evidence does Dr. Dave Norman use to suggest that Iguanodon was partly quadrupedal?

7)  According to Dr. Peter Dodson, where did the conflict between Cope and Marsh begin?
a. near Philadelphia, Penn.	b. Como Bluff, Wyo.	c. Tendaguru, Tanzania

Extra Credit)  In a Monty Python-esque animated sequence, the documentary shows the total number of species names proposed by Cope and Marsh.  Which of the two had the  greater total number?								

8)  Earl Douglass employed a new technique in recovering fossils.  What was this new technique?
a. remote sensing	b. dowsing		c. water jets		d. dynamite

9)  The name of the paleontologist who, in the 1930s, used to drive around on a Harley, and who found the sauropod dinosaur tracks near Paluxy, Texas, was:
a. O.C. Marsh.		b. J.O. Farlow.		c. R.T. Bird.		d. R.C. Andrews.

Extra Credit)  The man whom the narrator calls “Paleontology’s Indiana Jones” was: