ANTARCTICA FOSSILS

FIRST FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARTICA

• Theropods

FIRST FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARTICA

• Giant marine animals

FIRST FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

• Ancient birds

FIRST FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

• Hadrosaurs

FIRST DINOSAUR FOSSIL FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

• Antarctopelta
• Found in 1986
• Around the Vega islands
• Was a herbivore
• Climate in Antarctica must have been warmer
• Late Cretaceous geologic time period

DINOSAUR FOSSIL FOUND IN THE TRANSARTARCTIC MOUNTAINS

• Crylophosaurus
• Lived in the Jurassic period

OTHER DINOSAURS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

• Hypsilophodontid

WHY SO FEW FOSSILS FOUND IN ANTARCTICA

• The ground is frozen
• Very cold there
• Not very many people go there

HOW DOES ALL THAT SUPPORT THAT ANTARCTICA ONCE WAS WARMER

• Plants are too cold to grow
• Coal can not form unless heat