DON AND SARA PARSONS

Minerals - Fossils - Carvings

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Rapid City, SD 57703
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All images are taken using Raynox CM-2000 and CM-3500 (micro and macro) lenses for a 35 mm SLR Camera and a 8X Digital Still Camera

This small [6 feet in length] agile carnivore is classed as a Dromaeosaurid. The fossil remains, teeth etc. are almost a carbon copy of the Velociraptor mongoliensis. The name from the Greek is lizard-bird- robber. Though thought to range from 73 to 76 million years ago they are found to the end of the Cretaceous in Wyoming, [Lance Creek Fm.] This is another instance of a small meat eater surviving over a longer period than the larger predators.