| Show Fossil is Found f Dinosaur Lecture at Vernal Below My ton by Scientists Scientist s E 0 tit a 11 0 the I I u m. m That is the name of an animal that lived Jived about six miles below belo here some seyer several l million years ears ago And nd i 4 even at that he lie liven lived several millions years arte the tha- Di Dinosaur l sa r was ivas buried bulled in the mud mull near where Jensen now no sta stands Strange to the thc layman isn't it ft that Um t there o f so much difference inthe in the ages of two formations so close together This is the Tertiary Tertian formation nile Ten Jensen eu euis is the lower The bones o of this animal were discovered l years eals ago abo by O. O A A. Peterson of the Carnegie Museum and th the other day when Mr 11 Peterson Professor Earl Eail Douglass and A. A S. S Coggeshall also of Carnegie Museum came cam over to take a look at the place where little Don Felten found the small skull near Lal bridge me they went down below to locate a quarry This animal which resembled somewhat the black weighed t about pounds and had two horns boms near the end of the nose He fed upon plants and probably lived lied in lowlands near a river ri not necessarily the present Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne river I Ite e had as associates the anc ancestry cf cr the tho deer the antelope and the horse The horse at that t time we was footed five-footed and was about the size of or a fox ox There Them are als also fossils of sea fish palm leaves am ami al man many other evidences of a tropical countr country Next spring Professor Douglass hopes to do some work and if U fossils are as p numerous as at Jensen he will be there a long ti tine date tE- tE Professor Peterson was here thirty seers ear eara a ago o when he lie was connected with the Museum of oC Natural aural History New Ne' York City That was in Colonel reign inthis in inthis this country Professor ProCessor Peterson had a pass entitling him Mini to to enter the Uintah reservation only but he lie also wanted to go onto the Uncompahgre Colonel Randlett thought he lie might be one of these Gilsonite hounds and refused his 1115 request Henry Osborn then president of the museum in New York was a close friend of Whitney Whitney Whitney Whit Whit- ney President Cleveland's secretary of oC war A little political wire pulling soon gained for Peterson admittance admittance admittance admit admit- admit admit- tance and he lie explored to his hearts heart's content Twelve years cars ago he was wat here heie again but that time he lie was con con- netted with Carnegie Professor ProCessor Coggeshall is the man who mounts these fossils and makes them look like they ther did soon after the flesh left the tho bone For years he has explored w western fields Much l of ot his work worl has been done In Colorado and Wyoming Last Sunday Sundar he delivered a n lecture Inthe Inthe in inthe the Vogue theater in Vernal on how Dinosaurs are found and unearthed His lecture which kept a packed house tense with Interest for an hour and a half was illustrated ed with slides and moving pictures |
