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  • Australia-sized continent called Laramidia, stretching from Mexico in the south to Alaska in the north, while Eastern North America was known as Appalachia.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • ` Dinosaurs living on the narrow, peninsula-like western landmass - known as Laramidia - occupied only a narrow belt of plains that were sandwiched between the seaway to the east and rising mountains to the west.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Sampson said that during the Late Cretaceous, the monument was part of a relatively small piece of land known as Laramidia, which was sandwiched between an inland sea and mountains.

    Ventura County Star Stories 2009

  • Kosmoceratops lived in Laramidia, an area known as the "lost continent", alongside other herbivores, including armoured ankylosaurs, duck-billed hadrosaurs and dome-headed pachycephalosaurs, and carnivorous predators such as raptors and tyrannosaurs.

    Horniest dinosaur ever discovered ? Kosmoceratops ? found in Utah 2010

  • A warm, shallow sea flooded much of central North America, dividing the continent into two land masses: Laramidia in the west and Appalachia in the east.

    Horniest dinosaur ever discovered ? Kosmoceratops ? found in Utah 2010

  • Scott Sampson also closed out the meeting with a great keynote talk on the lateCampanian of Laramidia "West America", which would have been a very interesting time to have visited.

    Archive 2009-05-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

  • Scott Sampson also closed out the meeting with a great keynote talk on the lateCampanian of Laramidia "West America", which would have been a very interesting time to have visited.

    Two great meetings ReBecca Foster 2009

  • Normally, large animals are expected to span the whole area in which they live, as is the case with coyotes and mountain lions nowadays, and this might be expected to prove true with relatively small continents such as Laramidia.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Laramidia along a thin strip of land that stretched from Alaska to Mexico.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • "Sitting near the southern tip of Laramidia, this region may have been hammered by monstrous storms," Sampson said.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

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