Team discovers dinosaur fossils near Hanksville
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In three weeks of excavating the preserved river channel near Hanksville, a team from the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Ill., found four long-necked sauropods, two carnivorous dinosaurs and a possible herbivorous Stegosaurus.
"We have not had a discovery of this magnitude in many, many years," BLM Utah Paleontologist Dr. Scott Foss said. "They're just scratching the surface. The potential is great."
The Hanksville-Burpee Quarry is at least 145 million years old and contains the fossilized remains of dinosaur skeletons, animal burrows and large petrified tree trunks, Foss said.
The sandstone quarry has kept the fossils "exceptionally well preserved," he said. Some fossils have had to be put back together, but many were preserved as complete pieces.
Geez, I thought I had my outhouse better hidden, covered up out behind the shed down by the crick. The fossils in there are guaranteed authentic.
Don’t tell the enviro-wackos about it though. They’ll be down here trying to prevent me from using that hillside as an emergency stop on a beer thirty afternoon.