The Fauna of the Morrison: Life in the Jurassic

Abundant life, from tiny insects to massive Sauropods. Life was much different back then. Welcome to Jurassic North America!

This video discusses and introduces many of the species as we know them from a location here in NA, Known as the Morrison.

This locale is FILLED with critters and dinosaurs. Allow me to introduce some!

I do not own any art/photos/clips in this video.

[sapphhere]

I did a presentation on the Morrison Formation for my drama class. I got to educate my class about dinosaurs for 20 minutes, and got full credit! It was one of the best experiences of my oife. Especially because of how receptive and open minded my audience was. I got so many questions that they had to be cut short because of lack of time

[aagsmd]

I will say this without a doubt, Torvosaurus is HEAVILY underrated. (Don't worry Allo, I still love you)

[magnagermania]

Very late reply, but thank you for this video! Dinosaur ecosystems are criminally underrepresented in dinosaur media, everybody only focuses on specific animals. Great vid!

[ChillRex-clup]

I love these videos, I love dinosaurs and I’m glad I can learn more about them

[BerryDeLajt]

Props to you for including Stokesosaurus, I always find that dinosaur really underrated and overlooked. I also renember seeing this species in ZT2, love that game, great video!

[groque]

Wow. The perfect balance of informative entertainment and acknowledgment to the erroneous nature of inferences in paleontology. A healthy dose of cautious skeptisim and utilization of publications that paint an image of these ecosystems as the spectacle they would've been. Excellent video easily one of the best formats I've come across in paleo channels.

[mikeyyy]

I know this comment will probably be overlooked but I just wanted to say that you and you’re videos have gotten me through and out of my depression and anxiety, thank you so much for helping me and I can’t wait for more videos and more faunas. Keep up the outstanding work and be safe❤

[Supersaurus]

I wish Prehistoric Planet would have episodes that focus on dinosaurs from the Jurassic Era, that way we’d get to see dinosaurs like Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus and many other Jurassic fauna be shown with more realistic designs

[tres]

I had the great opportunity to do my undergrad research on the Morrison Formation and went to Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Jurassic National Monument last summer. Helping with excavations and mapping, as well as a few other things, like geochemical analysis. One of the best experiences for sure, and I'm looking forward to returning this summer and to work on my master's thesis on JNM!

[edwardneronha]

Please make more videos like this, extremely fascinating and informative, thank you.

[jlgonzales]

Love it! Morrison Formation is my 2nd favorite of the fossil sites!
Please do a video on the fauna and flora of Hell Creek!!

[mysticarcanum]

Id love to hear more about the dinosaur park formation in upper north america, you did such a good job with the morrison It got me excited that you might do more 👌👌

[Nebalpar]

Sad I couldn’t be here when it was live, but at least I get to see it now!

[prototropo]

I was so lucky to grow up in the Formation area, just west of Denver near the town of Morrison itself. We rode our bikes through Red Rocks every summer weekend, and, oblivious to fossils beneath our feet, lived an exhilarating childhood amongst the meadowlarks, tadpoles and garter snakes of the Cenozoic. To the east a rolling slope decline of the riparian valley fashioned by the Arkansas River hosted pronghorns, Western Quail, Ruffed Grouse, prairie dogs and fenced herds of American Bison.
A bit further west into the lingering vestigial wilderness of the Sangre de Cristo Range, the headwaters of the Rio Grande, were cougars, Rainbow Trout, Rocky Mountain Bighorn and rattlesnakes, making life recently ancient to geologists, newly mystical to a kid, and sublime to a desert rat visiting the grand landscapes still surviving from an enchanted memoryscape, 70 years later.
West of the Sangre de Cristo huddled the town of San Luis, oldest European settlement in Colorado, and another 100 miles west are the great ruins of the Pueblo peoples' Mesa Verde, in the shadow of the West's most iconic scene imaginable--the Colorado National Monument, where "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" was filmed, and south of that, the San Juans, 14, 000 feet of crepuscular grandeur, the backdrop to the 160-year-old mining towns of Aspen & Telluride.
These scenes existed like the Elysian Fields of the New World, until the 1980s, when Reaganomics encouraged suburban sprawl, criminally, to corrupt what was arguably the most sweepingly majestic of all geologic moments of North America. But Southern Colorado, from Morrison to Mesa Verde, is still heaven saddled on the backbone of a continent. Fossils are just its beautiful basement.

[TyrannosaurusRex..]

Literally can’t resist watching one of them videos. 😍

[sauriansketches]

Idk how I’m just seeing this, but awesome vid! Also, great taste in a nanosaurus drawing at 10:16😉

[awesomeguy]

Now that's what I was looking for ❤

[brentgatewood]

I love your videos especially these ones. Your the channel that got me back into dinosaurs. Also maybe do a Fauna of Hell Creek that would be awesome. Thank you so much for information.

[RazorRex]

As I Colorado Native, the Morrison Formation is one of my favorites.

[antwan]

So much depth so much content bravo sir you have impressed me.