PREVIOUSLY, ON BATTLESTAR GALACTICA:
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Grace Albers and I are taking a trip down to
Dinosaur National Monument in
Utah and
Colorado.
-We checked out some cool
petroglyphs and then camped the night.
-We arrived at the quarry and checked out all of the awesome bones on the quarry face.
-And now....
In the last post, we looked at a bunch of pictures that we took from the second floor viewing platform of the quarry face. In this post, we have traveled below the viewing platform to the first floor to check out some of the awesome fossils that they had below! Below is a diagram of the quarry wall that shows where the original discovery of the site was made!
Here we have the
skull of a species of
Allosaurus called
Allosaurus jimmadseni! I believe that this species has not been officially described, but to be honest, the genus
Allosaurus is a bit of a mess, so I'm not really sure what exactly is going on!
The arm of
Allosaurus.
The foot bones that were discovered of
Allosaurus jimmadseni inside a reconstructed
footprint!
The skull of
Allosaurus jimmadseni in situ (which means that it still is in the rock).
The skull of
Allosaurus!
The reconstructed skeleton of
Allosaurus!
This nearly complete juvenile skeleton of
Camarasaurus is apparently
the most complete sauropod skeleton ever found!
One of the signs at the quarry said that a new species of sauropod, called Abydosaurus, has been discovered in the monument in a different geologic formation called the Cedar Mountain Formation!
Here is the skull of
Apatosaurus louisae.
A
Camarasaurus tooth on the left and several
Diplodocus teeth on the right!
Skin impressions of another sauropod dinosaur called
Barosaurus!
One of the
tail spikes of
Stegosaurus!
One of the
plates of
Stegosaurus!
Some of the
baby Stegosaurus bones discovered in the quarry!
The skull of the small
ornithopod Dryosaurus!
Unidentified
lizard legs and feet.
A small
crocodilian called
Hoplosuchus.
A fossil conifer
cone.
A fossil conifer branch with shoots!
The fossilized remains of an extinct
salamander called
Iridotriton!
The fossilized remains of the extinct
frog Rhadinosteus!
A fossilized shell belonging to a juvenile
Glyptops, a type of
turtle!
A lungfish tooth plate from a
fish called
Ceratodus!
The shell of another extinct turtle called
Dinochelys.
A fossil
clam.
The fossilized belly scales of the extinct crocodilian
Goniopholis.
The fossilized jaw bone of the same extinct crocodile, Goniopholis!
Next time: a few more
petroglyphs and the Harper's Corner Drive!
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