Posted on 09/11/2017 10:16:17 AM PDT by ETL
Construction crews in Colorado made an unusual find at their construction site a rare dinosaur fossil.
The crews said they found the fossil while breaking ground on a new public safety facility in the city of Thornton, Fox 31 Denver reported.
The fossil has been identified as a triceratops skull by scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who went to the site and confirmed the dinosaur remnant.
"My heart was racing. I realized it was a pretty important dinosaur find," Joe Sertich, curator of dinosaurs for the museum, told Fox 31. "This is probably one of only three skulls of triceratops found along the Front Range area."
Front Range is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that runs through Colorado and Wyoming.
Dinosaur fossils have been known to lay beneath Denver for around 150 years, but most of the city is covered by buildings or parking lots, which make fossils difficult to unearth, Sertich told KMGH.
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Lol!
LOL!
I worked commercial construction to put myself through college, and you are correct. We “never” found any bones either. Or native American artifacts. We most definitely never found any native American artifacts.
Would GPS have prevented this?......................
Assuming it is that precise, I would imagine so. I really don't know much about the precision of GPS location detection.
Also, without first reading it, I had thought that long piece I posted would have contained more info about the fossil finding laws.
Supposedly it’s +/- 4 meter accurate worst case, but usually within one or two.....................
Thank Heaven it wasn’t an injun burial site, or they’d be tied up for years in court!
I did my 7th Grade report on the Ceratopsians, replete with my own (quite good) drawings. Triceratops is only one of many species.
Thank you. I missed that before posting.
Protoceratops - Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian stage)
I suspect many of what they now think are different species are actually variations within the same, in most cases the horns simply curving in a different direction.
Note: this topic is from 9/11/2017. Thanks ETL.
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