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Show NEW FOSSILS FOUND NEAR VERNAL Skeletal Btmcture of Giant Mammal l'ound Ner old Dinosaur Quarry. Two auto mechanics, Marion G. FenfieW anni- Lee II. Snyder, being need of firewood, combined with a desire to examine anything having the slightest appearance cf being a fossilized remnant ot Irfe existing In the ages of long ago, discovered an-extensive an-extensive deposit of bones of the skeletal structure of giant mammals, now extinct. While gathering, wood at a pohU eleven miles west of Vernal the men noticed a .bluff three-quarters of a mile off the highway that bore all the marks of a depository of fossils On examination they discovered a , partly exposed jaw bone of a mam-mal, mam-mal, and separating the fossil from ' V its age-old bed it was disclosed that I it was part of a skeleton of an aui- mal that in life w.s a'bout the size of a sheep. The fining of this fossil caused furtner search and brought about results of a different nature. Rib bones were brought to light, followed fol-lowed by the unearthing of a large-jaw large-jaw of another mammal. The search- ' ers .'further found the large skull and rib 'hones, the size of which would indicate that they were part of a giant rhinoceros. Up to. April G four large skulls of mammals, some containing their complete equipment of teeth had been uncovered. These skulls range in length from IS to 22 inches, and in width from twelve to fourteen ' inches. The site of the discovery is a saiid-Uone saiid-Uone bluff, 150 feet in height. The-bones The-bones were (found on a shelf formed by erosion, deposited Jn a conglomerate conglom-erate mass, Indicating that many miL-- v lennlums ago. several bodies of giant mammals were carried to the spot by an unknown force, prolably a flood, and deposited -in a pile, and that in course of passing centuries they w-cPo encase';"1 in a sandstone formation In addition to the skulls parts- of thr leg bones of the giant mammal: Wire uncovered. One of these, 'hat part of the skeletal strucluro farming the. horns of a front leg from l- nce to ankle, is six inches in diam-'.t?r diam-'.t?r a'd net less than two feet in Icupth. y ' Mr. PcnP.eld and -Mr. Snyder, the actual discoverers of thi-j deposit, and J. LeRoy Kay, an employe of the C.arn-;;jl?. Institute, are continulni; excavations. The site of this discovery is approximately ap-proximately twenty-five miles west and south of the idinosaur untior.al ... f monument. The burial grounds of liio rhinoceros skeletons is situated only seven miles northwest of thj-U. thj-U. S. 40 (Victory) highway. The nit.e is on the ipublic domain and, Analogically, Is a mile higher than tho site of the dinosaur tiuarry. Iu the event that the fossil deposit now being "uncovered proves to bo of major mngn-itudc and nrchcolo;;!-c;.l nrchcolo;;!-c;.l vrluo it Is probable that efforts will be u.;;,:o l - have the federal government gov-ernment set It u..:.: - ns a national inouument to forestali v,-?nton exploitation ex-ploitation anil vandalism. |