Monster in the Hollow - The Story of Missouri’s Ozark Dinosaurs by Professor Michael Fix

Monster in the Hollow - The Story of Missouri’s Ozark Dinosaurs

Professor Fix has been a member of UMSL's Physics faculty since 1976 and is responsible for teaching all of the Geology classes and labs that are offered through the department. He is a graduate of Washington University’s department of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus in paleontology and stratigraphy.

He was chosen by the UM – St. Louis campus to receive an Emerson Outstanding Teaching Award for 2010.

His research concerns the only known dinosaur site in the entire state of Missouri, which is known as the Chronister Site after the family that originally owned the land when dinosaur remains were first found by accident in 1942.

He is a member of the Missouri Ozark Dinosaur Project that is affiliated with the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History in Marble Hill, Missouri. The project has been conducting a scientific excavation at the site since 1999 and has uncovered the remains of three types of dinosaurs: a hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) named Hypsibema missouriense (the official Missouri state dinosaur), a tyrannosaurid (a relative of T. rex) and a dromaeosaur (a relative of Velociraptor). The site has also produced fossils of freshwater turtles, a strange type of tortoise with a beaded shell and spiny legs, crocodiles, a bizarre large amphibian with no back legs, and fish such as gar, bowfin, and freshwater sharks and rays.

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