Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-415) and index.
Introduction : an ocean in Kansas? -- Our discovery of the western interior sea -- Invertebrates, plants, and trace fossils -- Sharks : sharp teeth and shell crushers -- Fishes, large and small -- Turtles : leatherback giants -- Where the elasmosaurs roamed -- Pliosaurs and polycotylids -- Enter the mosasaurs -- Pteranodons : rulers of the air -- Feathers and teeth -- Dinosaurs? -- The big picture -- Epilogue : where did it go?