Posted on 07/01/2008 10:29:38 AM PDT by null and void
A major dinosaur fossil discovery has been announced in southeastern Utah. Currently identified as the Hanksville-Burpee Quarry, the area is located in a preserved river channel and contains the fossilized remains of multiple dinosaur skeletons, animal burrows and large petrified tree trunks.
Recently excavated by a team from the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL, the site is similar in age to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry near Price. It is believed to be 145-150 million years old, falling at the end of the Jurassic Period, which was the middle period of the Mesozoic era or "Age of Reptiles." After only three weeks of excavation, the quarry has yielded at least four long-necked sauropods, two carnivorous dinosaurs and a possible herbivorous Stegosaurus.
After only three weeks of excavation, the quarry yielded four long-necked sauropods, two carnivorous dinosaurs and a possible herbivorous Stegosaurus.
Although the area was known to the Bureau of Land Management Utah and the local community for many years, recent in-depth investigation and excavation efforts by the Burpee Museum have revealed its true magnitude. The Hanksville-Burpee Quarry site will be closed on Friday, June 20, 2008, and will remain closed until next summer when an excavation team from the Burpee Museum will return to continue work.
In addition to a planned Environmental Assessment for the area, the bureau and the museum are working together to develop long-term research initiatives and interpretive plans to provide for educational and recreational opportunities in coming years.
ping...
I figured this would be a pic of the Mainstreamosaurus.
The birthplace of Helen Thomas!
Come on, you already know what that looks like...
"Leave my parent's graves alone!"
Bones of 7’ dinosaurs have been found in Rumania, and these creatures are nearly current events and were a constant danger only 500 years ago. Also a pterosaur skeleton with 40’ wingspan. Thunderbird.
Eh?
Missing link...
Where there’s dinosaur fossils there’s probably OIL! Screw them dinosaur fossils, DRILL DRILL DRILL!
I hate to say it, but isn’t the Burpee Museum a bit seedy?
The stegasaurus is registered to vote in Chicago.
The report was on radio this morning. Sounds like fringe material, but if they have skeletons then there it is.
That would be way kewl if it turns out to be true!
(Coast-to-Coast AM?)
It was NOT Coast. Coast has led the way, but this was MSM.
The plot thickens...
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