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Show Dinosaur assembling begins Quarry technicians have begun assembling the skeleton of a baby stegosaurs found in the Dinosaur National Monument quarry near Jensen. Tobe Wilkins, quarry technician and Dan Chure, quarry paleontologist, will be doing most of the work on the specimen that will be featured on the lower level of the quarry visitors center near the stairs. Denny Davies, chief interpreter for e monument, said the project should W completed by March. He said remains of the reptile are only sufficient to reconstruct about 40 Percent of its skeleton. The back vertebrae ver-tebrae are missing as well as the skull. But workmen do have the reptile's 'ront and hind legs, scapula, ribs and , snoulders and other parts. The stegosaurus will be mounted in "Jnt of a painted background. No Piaster bones will be used to fill in the skeleton said Davies |