Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-02-03 | Page 7 | Reptile-Fish in Discovered near Duchesne

Reptile-fish Reptile I I Is Discovered Near Duchesne the great Uintah basin wa was an ocean the great s sea ha had man many Inhabitants The fos fossil remains of ot otman man many of or them are aro being found round oy y Bel last week while Whilo mining for In Indian canyon In the T basin for forte or t tho he Raven Mining com company pan Roy Thompson uncovered a fossil that Is said to have lIa been part of ot tho the hide e i of ot n a reptile halt half snake an and half hall fish Tho The discovery was made in tho the right fork of ot Indian canyon canon about seventeen se miles from Duchesne Tho The name given to the tho reptile fish by scientists to whom tho the toe fossil ll wail I I shown is t. The fossil was was found complete Im lun- bedded between two layers of ot and was perhaps three feet reet long IonS The scales arc are Jet black and shiny an and aro azo diamond shaped Thompson thoughtlessly tho gouged gouge Into tho the thing so 80 violently with his p pick ck that It broke an and fell from the rock wall gall to the ground where It broke Into man many pieces If It Earl Douglas Dous tho the scientist of or dinosaur dinosaur dinosaur din din- fame at Jensen had discovered er 11 that rare specimen ho would havo have gone at the removal like walking on e eggs and would have havo taken It out Intact though months of ot time had been ro ro- qu I red Thompson Thompson gathered gathered up six inches of ot the body and all of ot tho head and took thorn to Professor Cummins