Small towns and small universities sometimes surprise. Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah run by Utah State University Eastern surprised me. I expected one set of dinosaur bones and got dozens with excellent explanations. Add in some prehistoric Indian history and this was a great find. [NOTE: you can click an image to make it larger and start a slideshow.]
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- Allosaurus is a carnivore.. 28 feet long, weighing 1.5 tons.
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- Serrated sharp teeth could tear through skin and muscle. The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, located in the San Rafael Swell, near Cleveland, Utah, contains the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found. (Wikipedia)
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- Human skeleton beats…
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- …Mastodon skeleton.
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- Chart tracks the prehistory periods.
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- Dimetrodon is not a dinosaur but a reptile of the type that gave rise to mammals. Top predator of his era.
They have a new dinosaur ready to open to the public on Friday. We got an early viewing. It’s a Diplodocus that has been cast many times over the last century or so. If assembled it would not fit in the museum so it’s displayed laid out flat. Hard to photograph.
Just to give you an idea of some of the other skeletons:
