| Show r10 -- CSEEK tdxitStioriaJ Supplement 6 ' -to m f' ra'’v jT A '"r At £ 4 Ivr-- 4 c-- v- g ‘ KctiVitie 4 H t t On i Utah ma&locaU Vpinosaur National fartC ’ Cleveland-Lloy- d ? Quarry and the Dalton Wells dig area r S! the newspaper find ) examples of things besides dinosaurjfor''? 1 V In Utahfe'l'amous4 ’which 2tot£ Famous Utah Utah O V -- is j u' the 2531999 f known all over the world for its due in part to the wealth of that have been collected from what This is is now Dinosaur National Monument near Vernal Another famous dinosaur site is the Cleveland-Lloy- d Quarry located south of Price During the last few years Moab has become an important area for new dinosaur discoveries The Yellow Cat and Dalton Wells quarries combined have produced about 5000 dinosaur bones These bones are believed to belong to at least eight different dinosaurs only four of these have been named Dinosaurs have been found in the area that is now Escalante-Gran- d Staircase National Monument and many finds have recently been made in the San Rafael Swell area including two new armored dinosaurs The dry climate is one the reason Dfflos that so many dinosaurs have been discovered in Utah The climate permits few plants to grow leaving large areas subject to relatively rapid erosion This allows bone hunters to easily spot even small fragments of bone Another factor is that the uplift associated with the building of the Rocky Mountains combined with erosion exposed thick layers of Mesozoic sediments at the earth’s surface These same beds are present in other states like Kansas but they are buried under thousands of feet of younger rocks Utah recently gained three new paleontologists and has hundreds of amateur paleontologists such as the Utah Friends of Paleontology constantly searching for newly exposed bones This means that many more dinosaurs will be discovered in the future Allosaurus The most common meat-eatof any seolosical period in Utah is Allosaurus The lightly built skull of Allosaurus is armed with serrated knife-lik- e teeth Like three-toed birds Allosaurus walked on hind limbs and the vertebrae (bones in alive the neck and back) are hollow When the vertebrae were filled with air from the lunss The bones of 42 Allosaurus’ were discovered in the Cleveland-Lloy- d models of quarry near Price Utah Dinosaur Park features two this ferocious predator Skeletons of this spectacular theropod can be seen at the Prehistoric Museum in Price the Earth Sciences Museum at Brisham Young University Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden and at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City er life-siz- ed Alamosaurus i ' ' Cafliarastfurus (' ‘ k V ' Camarasauriis has been called the 'Cow y of the Jurassic' because it was the most common known from the Morrison Formation Adults reached a length of 60 feet with a skull' In the 1920’s a nearly complete skeleton of a ’baby’ Camarasaurus was dis- -' covered at what is now Dinosaur National Monument That small specimen measuring only 17 feet in length is still the most complete Sauropod ever found Based plant-eat- er two-foot-lo- ' ' on adult size the baby would be the equivaldrttof a ar old human Alamosaurus represents the last of the sauropods in North America This medium-size- d sauropod was found in beds of the North Horn Formation on the Wasatch Plateau along with fragmentary remains of Tyrannosaurus Alamosaurus belongs to a lesser-know- n group of sauropods known as titanosaurids Most members of this group are found in the Southern Hemisphere in areas such as South America Africa Madagascar and India Although no skull has been found Utah’s Alamosaurus is the most complete titanosaurid sauropod ever described |
