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Show Sea Serpent's Skull Found by a California Student Berkeley, Calif. A fossilized skull of a moasaur a huge serpentine sea-reptile which lived during the upper Cretaceous geologic period, some 60,000,000 years ago, has been found near the town of Gustine, Calif., by Allan Bennison, a sophomore sopho-more in the University of California here. It is the first mosasaur skull to be found west of the Rockies. The skull is about two feet long, and is six inches -in width at its broadest point. It was found embedded em-bedded in a sandstone formation on the side of a hilL It has been given to the university's museum of paleontology pa-leontology for study. S. P. Welles, field laboratory assistant as-sistant in the museum, says the reptile rep-tile was about 18 feet long, with a slender, snake-like body. Its limbs resembled paddles with which it propelled its way through the water. wa-ter. Its tail was somewhat fan-like in shape, and served as a scull ta guide its passage. |