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Show BONES OF BIG REPTILE FOUND Ancient Specimen Uncovered in Quarries in Unita Basin VERNAL. Aug. 3V A .specimen of orci-nt reptile, unknown to science. Is bolng uncovered in the Dinosaur national na-tional monument quarry near Jensen, filteen mlloi from Wtii.i1. according, to wo.-fl which reached her,. y vterday. Dr. Earl noughts, who Is In Ohargi or the quarry Is unable to classify tho new find and at the suggestion of Dr.: William J. Holland of the Carnegie I museum In 1-Mltsburg, Pa. It will be called the "ulhtasaurus." The skeie-l t( n denotes that In life the animal was about forty-flc feet long. There has been some thought of abandoning the quarry, hut with every ev-ery day ot excavation some new and' valuable specimen is uncovered Several Sev-eral hundred partial skeletons, and I almost a dozen complete ones have been found, among them th largest cver discovered In the world, measuring meas-uring one hundred and twenty feet,; nnd this great huri.il spot of giant snlmall is becoming world known. it in an easy run from v rnal to the quarry and many Of the occan-to-ocean tourists arc visiting It dally., It is tht hope of Dr. Douglass that, one of the rare skeletons, with proper' housing, may be mounted at the quarry quar-ry mio The st.itc of Utah may be! a:ked to finance the undertaking. I oo 1 |