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When Dinosaurs Roamed America - 2001
United States Premiere
Sunday, July 15, 2001 8pmContents > Synopsis > Interview: Jim Kirkland/Douglas Wolfe > Gallery of Stills > Resources
Credits INTERVIEW Jim Kirkland and Douglas Wolfe
Dinosaurs Triassic Period – 220 Million Years Ago – New York, Connecticut River Valley
Jurassic Period - 200 Million Years Ago – New York, Connecticut River Valley
- Coelophysis
- Desmatosuchus
- Rutiodon
Upper Jurassic – 150 Million Years Ago - Utah
- Canchisaurus
- Dilophosaurus
- Syntarsus
Mid – Late Cretaceous - 110 - 90 Million Years Ago – New Mexico
- Allosaurus
- Apatosaurus
- Camarasaurus
- Ceratosaurus
- Dryosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- ** Two never-before-seen species, from the Upper Jurassic Period as well as newly discovered flora and fauna from the “Cretaceous Gap,” a 30 million-year period in North American history, will be revealed at a press announcement in June.
Mid – Late Cretaceous – 65 Million Years Ago – Montana
- Dromaeosaur
- Zuniceratops
- Anatotitan
- Didelphodon
- Quetzalcoatlus
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus rex
Cast (in credits order) Paleontologists
(consulting)
(alphabetically)
Karen Chin
Philip J. Currie
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
James Kirkland
Paul E. Olsen
David Weishampel
Doug WolfeWhen Dinosaurs Roamed America -
A Conversation with Jim Kirkland and Douglas Wolfe
![Zuniceratops (c)2001 Discovery Channel [18.8KB]](images/ddocwdrazuniceratops13.jpg)
This Zuniceratops can't keep his mouth shut about his debut on a TV show.Jim Kirkland and Doug Wolfe are known for their significant dinosaur finds -- Utahraptor and Zuniceratops christopheri -- respectively. Kirkland is the state paleontologist of Utah and Wolfe is the principal investigator and director of the Zuni Basin Paleontological Project. Both paleontologists acted as scientific consultants on When Dinosaurs Roamed America and both appear on screen in “Paleo Bites.”
Q: How does the visualization of dinosaurs in this animated special compare to the artistic renderings of prehistoric creatures such as models in a museum or in illustrations?
A: Discovery Channel and its paleontological advisory group are working to present the very latest information on what these animals looked like. At every step of the way at least two paleontologists had to sign off on the reconstruction process. This is critical because paleontologists tend not to agree on what these animals looked like. To get even two scientists to agree on what an animal looked like means that these animals represent a fairly mainstream view. Even museums rarely have this much scientific input.
Q: What does the viewer gain?
A: Viewers can rest assured that they are seeing animals that reflect the latest discoveries in history's most exciting interval of paleontological discovery.
Q: As both paleontologists and consultants to the show how do you resolve, in your own minds, the fair amount of speculation seemingly needed to visualize dinosaurs?
A: There really isn’t that much speculation. In general, we selected animals for which a fairly large amount of data exists. Even where we do not have data for a particular animal we bring in information from its close relatives.
We have done this most extensively for the raptors – as we know a lot about this group of animals. Additionally, we did this in feathering our raptors, which have close relatives in China that are feathered. In fact we know what the skin coverings are like in nearly every family of dinosaurs and we have clothed our dinosaurs accordingly.
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