Feeding Time

Title: Feeding Time
Year: 2015
Artist: Jeff Raum, Moorpark, CA
Location: Art Alley

Description: This mural depicts a scene from the Late Cretaceous Period (about 75 million years ago) of Western North America.

The large carnivore, Albertosaurus, was first discovered in 1844 and the later discovery of 26 individuals at one dig site provides evidence of pack behavior. He was a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and lived a few million years earlier. Albertosaurus was about 30 feet long and 11 feet at the hips. He weighed up to 3 tons. His teeth had a least one replacement tooth growing up from under each tooth, much like sharks today.

Lambeosaurus; a crested, duck-billed dinosaur, is the largest known of its kind. It grew to up to 50 feet long, weighing 5.6 tons. Lambeosaurus has confused paleontologists since the 1920’s. Originally different crests found on different skulls were assigned their own species. Now they are interpreted as different growth stages and/or sexes. The Lambeosaurus in the mural on the left is male, the one closer to the center is female.