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Description: The Colorado Front Range has formed, bringing mountain topography back to Colorado for the first time in nearly 200 million years. Warm air and plentiful rainfall promote a bounty of plant life. Huge plant-eaters such as Triceratops browse in a forest of palm tree thickets and patches of paddle-leaved plants. Climbing ferns, herbaceous plants, and a variety of broad-leaved trees also grew here. Home to hundreds of turtles, birds, lizards, tiny mammals, frogs, and snakes, this landscape is also the turf of Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest meat-eating animal in North American history.
Formation: D1 - Denver Formation
Artist: Gary Staab
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