Paleontologists have begun moving a rich collection of fossils uncovered recently in southern Utah. Paleontologist Alan Titus says the site, which was found in 2007, is one of the best uncovered so far at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
He says among the fossils found there are remnants of a hadrosaur, an ankylosaurid, and some kind of pterosaur. Some of the bones were taken out via helicopter last month.
One of the dinosaurs uncovered at the site two years ago (Gryposaurus monumentensis) will be reconstructed and displayed at the new Utah Museum of Natural History, which is under construction at the University of Utah.
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Sounds like a rich Quarry! How Old is the Strata?
ReplyDeleteThe strata is mostly Late Cretaceous (late Santonian, to be more precise).
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