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Show tXLZDO Page 2 Dinosaur Quarry is Jurassic Grocery Store season alone, the museum helped discover four new America is caught up in d- inosaur Grade fever. species of dinosaurs. The ClevelandLloyd Dinosaur Quarry south of Price is one of the world's richest dinosaur sites. More than 30 complete skeletons, 12,000 individual bones and several extremely rare dinosaur eggs schoolers, teenagersand even senior citizens are pursuing the Jurassic giants. The pursuit of information about the prehistoric giants has been led by the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric seum. During last year's field Mu- k Pawn 82 N. 200 West have been found there. cently a quarry volunteer posit. Princeton University did a great deal of work f- covered several dinosaur 9 explore our expanded store Bigger than ever with lower than ever prices Come in & told was a dinosaur bone teeth while getting the visitor center ready to open for the Easter weekend. Research at the quarry began in 1929 when University of Utah scientists began looking for what they had been i km 637-595- Re- dis- Paint Ball Supplies Saddles Hunting Fishing & Camping Supplies We sell what you want at prices you can afford inanced by Malcomb Lloyd, in 1939-4- 1 in order to develop a university exhibit. Because of its close proximity to the small Emery County town of Cleveland, the quarry was given the name Cleveland Lloyd. Work began1 in earnest again in 1960 by the University of Utah on a five-yeproject under the direction of Dr. William Lee Stokes, an ar Emery County native. Bones, bones and more During the flurry of over the years the activity quarry has yielded bones from at least 70 different animals and 14 species. Casts and original skeletons are on display in over 60 museums world wide, including Al the Allosaurus in the CEU Prehisbones. toric Museum in Price. The most commonly asked question is why the bones are all deposited in one concentrated location. Experts say the now dry desert was a shallow freshwater lake with a muddy bottom 147 million years ago. They surmise the plant eating dinosaurs were lured into the lake in search of food and they became mired in the mud and in turn, became food and temptation for the meat-eat- - E $8 i&i For the 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday until 3:00 a.m. 31 East Main, Wellington 637-422. y 3 m w- v ing variety. After the lake bottom dried up it was covered with volcanic ash. Later rivers and shallow seas deposited thick layers of sand and mud on top of the mix. Meanwhile, the bones fossilized and millions of years later, water and wind eroded the layers to produce the topography seen today. A Jurassic grocery store. s of the bones g found today belong to' machine we call the Allosaurus, the largest carnivore of the Jurassic period. Also found are plant-eatin-g Stegosaurus, Camarasaurus and the Camptosaurus. In the 1970s state paleontologist James H. Madsen found and described two previously unknown dinosaurs. The small carnivores were called the Two-third- meat-eatin- Stokesaurus , clevelandi (named after Dr. William Lee Stokes and the town of Cleve-lan- d) and Marshosaurus bicentesimus. A trip to the quarry seems to be a long one for visitors used to paved highway driving, but it is well worth the dust and the time. To find the quarry take Highway 10 to the first Cleveland turnoff. From there follow the Bureau of Land Management signs to the quarry, a distance of 30 miles from Price. Admission is charged. We carry a wide selection of $ 3 Native American 9 Jewelry, Pottery, s Art, Contemporary Jewelry, Sterling $ Silver 5, 3 BE BE Sunday-Thursda- y de- at the best prices in Utah BE |