Posted on 11/19/2018 8:24:47 AM PST by ETL
University of Oregon scientists have found the first confirmed dinosaur bone in Oregon, Fox 12 Oregon reports.
The toe bone belonged to a plant-eating, bipedal dinosaur known as an ornithopod and is estimated to date back 103 million years to a geological period that also gave rise to Tyrannosaurus Rex, the university said.
“This bone was sitting out there with all the rocks. It was pretty surprising,” University of Oregon scientist Greg Retallack told the Eugene Register-Guard.
“No excavation was needed. It was just sitting among the ammonites and coil fossils.”
Retallack found it in eastern Oregon near the tiny town of Mitchell.
The university said it is a rare find because the state was underwater for most of the dinosaur age, according to Fox 12.
Retallack said the dinosaur, which was more than 20 feet long and weighed nearly a ton, likely died onshore and washed out to sea.
The discovery was reported last week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, a peer-review publication, according to reports.
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Thanks. I just came from a parent teacher interview and was thinking of how good your father was at inspiring students—or at least students capable of inspiration—at all things editorial.
Correct. I think writers just like to throw in T. Rex as it is more “interesting” to the general public, accuracy be damned.
Use < S > to start strike out (no spaces between the brackets and the s) and < /S > to stop strikeout. (again no spaces). I inserted them around your parenthetical quote above because now you know!!
Same trick works for < sarc > and < /sarc >.
Leaving the spaces in, that is.
“Jurassic Park” should have been called “Cretaceous Park” but that doesn’t have the same appeal.
I like that part of the world. In high school, we used to go on OMSI field trips to Fossil, and one of my brothers spent a summer at Camp Hancock around 1967 or so. Then I worked for the Forest Service on the Ochoco National Forest for a few seasons in the 80s. There used to be a really good restaurant in Mitchell then, wonder if it’s still there. In 2017 my wife and I watched the eclipse near Seneca, and that’s the last time I’ve been to Oregon.
Good point.
One of the funniest movies I’ve seen.
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