Show 4 HASIN BASIN GEOLOGY UNRIVALED IN ALL THE WOULD WORLD alio a uintah basin of mh 1101 ils we the art ot of mhd cm ct tu furies ie s there hove been found I 1 tiam I 1 ilia iho larest hobt extensive 0 fossil remains rein ulna on title tills continent deposits which lauve live en ell tho 1 atac antion of KIM tleta the world alerv sin in what the government has set et aside us the dinosaur Dino nu ila bonal monument are the petrified remains of 0 of tile the animals kilich inhabited the earth in prehistoric pre historic times this fossil li jq on green river luht just after the turbulent emerges from ladore canon and swings froni colo rado into utah the carnegie institute has secured some of its finest from the green river bf beds ds it dots dois not mean much to tic U c ordinary mortal to be told that these animals that hat once inhabited the aln tah basin ore are called dinosaurs and bronto saure for those are the technical names it convey a better meaning when it Is known that the word dinosaur is from the latin and means terrible lizard and that brontosaur bronto means thunder lizard the dinosaur was a reptile reptile which in the aras tic bic period and became extinct with the close ot of the mejo they seem to be almost worldwide world wide in their distribution but the united tates states furnishes the best fossilized remains and the green river beds are the best of these the giant animals had limbs adapted to progress on land and a large tapering tall tail in many the hind limbs were much longer and stronger than the fore limbs such forms walked chiefly or entirely on the hind limbs others walked on all al four limbs some were carniv verous the largest were her bi verous they varied in size from special a few feet long to others at least 70 or 80 fe feet in length being the largest known land animals prof earl douglass of the carnegie institute who spent many years in the green river dinosaur quarry has said the uintah basin stands by itself there is ia no other region like it in physical arid and geological conditions dit ions no other rocks in the world have yielded A the rf remains of fossil animals like those of the uintah basin do posits along the green river INO NO other region has ha yielded such much an abundance of nearly completed skeletons of the huge dinosaurs the dinosaur had live five toed clepha elephantine ntine feet un an exceedingly small head as compared with the body the body was covered with large projecting bony plates on the back and tout stout spines on its tall tail As the animal was not armed in any way and had but small weak teeth it is believed that its only weapon of defense was its huge tall which it used like that of an alligator it was almost by accident that prof douglas of carnegie institute discovered the skeletons of these huge prehistoric animals were to be found in such quantities along the green river bones of the animals or rather parts of them were picked up by the early settlers Fett lers in great numbers they knew they were finding the bones of animals that lived long ago but were not sure our what animals out but the fact th the bones had turned to rock was an interesting to the barners far merfi ners who knew little of 0 science and the presence of these bones tit in the mcgion be came the subject of talk among the settlers each nl ad avancing a different theory as to what they were one former farmer living near vernal found a stone bearing DIP imprint ot of a toot foot of one of there huge animates animales ani males lie ile cir car ried the stone to ills his home and used it as aj a stepping stone to his front door where it attracted attention much at attention it evaa vas tile hie theory of P of douglass Dou glasa that fiat the var carcasses casses of the dinosaurs dead from some cause unknown floated down some prehistoric river and became lodged in a shallow bar there they lay jay for years gradually becoming covered with and until they were buried to a great depth when the ilia mountains were in fit the making this part of the river bed was up heaved and now the he quarry Is located on a mountain top one of tile the first excavations of prof dougliss Pou gliss was a dino was complete to the smallest bone of the tall and was the first tall of one of these olese animals ever found complete tile tall measured close to 30 feet in ili leki length gill and with the terna inder of tile the bones found nearby including nc luding the only complete skull x it U I 1 I 1 known the ake skeletons legons ceasur ed 85 05 feet in length and approximately 20 feet in n height twentysix twenty six four horse teams were required to transport the bones from the quarry to the railroad fot for shipment to pittsburgh where they were assembled and now stand as a complete skelton in the carnegie museum |