Searching for Spinosaurus (Part 1)

The story Searching for Spinosaurus starts in Erfoud, Morocco where a young paleontologist named______ ____________ was looking for fossils in March, 2013.

• Ernst Stromer

• Nizir Ibrahim

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

The specific location that Ibrahim was searching for dinosaurs was called the_________ _____ _____ and it dated back to the ___________ __________.

• Morocco Salt Flats, Cretaceous Period

• Spinosaurus River Bed, Jurassic Period

• Kem Kem Beds, Cretaceous Period

• Spinosaurus River Flats, Triassic Period

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A Bavarian aristocrat by the name of Ernst Stromer in 1910 and 1914 found in the Kem Kem beds many types of (choose all that apply).

• fish

• turtles

• birds with feathers

• plants with leaves

• crocodiles

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One of Stromers disoveries were 2 complete skeletons of a gigantic predator.

• True

• False

What was unique and startling about the fossil Stromer discovered was that it had extraordinary features such as (choose all that apply).

• six foot tall sails

• spines

• feathers

• antennae

• interlocking conical teeth

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Stromer named this animal

• Spinosaurus replicus

• Spinosaurus antiquitus

• Spinosaurus sailus

• Spinosuarus aegyptiacus

This great fossil discovery was preserved in the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology in Munich, Germany where you can actually go today and see Stromers Spinosaurus bones (choose the BEST answer).

• True, the fossilized bones were stored in a bunker during the bombing in WWII

• True, but you need special permission

• False, they were destroyed during WWII

• False, the bones were moved to England

Getting back to the young paleontologist Nizir Ibrahim, he first encountered Stromer's strange and gigantic Spinosaurus in__________

• Scientific journals

• Munich

• Morocco

• Children's books

Ibrahim was so fascinated by Stromers Spinosaurus that he immediately began

• giving educational tours of the fossil discovery site in Morocco.

• submitting Spinosaurus sketchings to the local university.

• an 836 page dissertation of the entire fossil record.

• creating a website show casing Spinosaurus

When Ibrahim was working on his PhD. in Morocco he came across a cardboard box containing purplish stones with something protruding from the rock. Ibrahim thought it looked like a _____ _____ ____

(3 words-lower case-spelling is important).

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