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Links:
Mosasaurs http://www.oceansofkansas.com/about-mo.html
Kronosaurus http://www.oceansofkansas.com/kronosar.html
Rudist reefs http://www.americanscientist.org/articles/02articles/johnson.html
End Cretaceous extinctions http://paleobiology.si.edu/blastPast/index.html
Diatoms http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html
Department of Paleobiology Dinosaur Web Site http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/
Department of Paleobiology Life of a Vertebrate Fossil
http://paleobiology.si.edu/LVF/index.htm
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