Mitchell Plesiosaur

The Oregon Paleo Lands Center & Gallery is now displaying the Mitchell Plesiosaur, the "Tiger of Cretaceous Seas" as its current exhibit. Call today to schedule a trip to the OPLI Field Center. (541) 763-4480

 

Other Exhibits

Interactive hands-on exhibits in the field center will include information with several different themes:

 

How Oregon was Built

The Ancient Contintent and Accreted Terrains

The First Volcanoes: The Clarno Formation

A History of Oregon's Cascade Volcanoes

The Columbia River Basalts

The Ice Age

Adding the Coast Range: When the Willamette Valley Was a Bay

 

Ancient Life and Ecosystems

Oregon's Age of Dinosaurs - Ancient Reptiles of Sea and Air (Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Pterosaurs)

Age of Mammals: A Brief Glimpse

Ice Age Oregon: Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Giant Sloths

Fossils of the Wheeler High School Fossil Beds

 

Climate Change, Extinctions, & Climates Through Time

Causes/Mechanisms of Climate Change, Extinctions

 

Ancient Climates of Oregon and the Northwest

Devonian (Chilly climates at the poles; tropical seas - a landscape of extremes)

Pennsylvanian (Climate switches from cold to hot - giant insects rule!)

Permian (Climate change - a torrid globe - wipes our 90 percent of life - the greatest extinction)

Cretaceous (Warm age of the dinosaurs)

Eocene and the Eocene-Paleocene Thermal Maximum (Bananas grow at Clarno)

Oligocene (Climate chills as oceanic circulation changes - the record of the Painted Hills)

Miocene (Cooling continues, grass takes over, a short warming here coincides with Columbia river Basalt eruptions) 

Pliocene-Pleistocene (Cooling goes on a rampage)

 

Climate Change Today, What We Can Do

Evidence for Climate Change

Consequences of Climate Change

What We Can Do About Climate Change

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