Friday morning we made our way across town and over the river to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.
We arrived at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center at 8:30 AM. We signed up for the 9:00 AM dig tour and looked around the museum while we waited. Thomas put a needle on Prairie Village, Kansas on a map at the entrance.
The museum is 10,000 square feet. The museum tour starts with display cases which lead to a large open area with about 10 fully-articulated, mounted skeletons.
The Monolophosaurus is a Jurassic dinosaur from China. It is a medium-sized carnosaur closely related to Allosaurus.
Bellusaurus (which means beautiful lizard) was discovered in China in 1982. It was a herbavore which reached a length of 15 feet.
Tuojiangosaurus, lizard from the Tuo River, was a stegosaurid. Like the Stegosaurus, it was a herbovore; it grew up to 75 feet in length, almost three times as long as the Stegosaurus.
"Morris" the Camarasaurus was the first dinosaur from the Warm Springs Ranch dig sites, associated with the museum. It was discovered in 1993 and excavated 1993 - 1995. Its mounting consumed 25,000 hours of preparation and took seven years. The mount is the original fossil bones. Morris is 47 1/2 feet (14.43 m) long and 11' 3" (3.7 m) tall.
Allosaurus fragilis from the Morrison Formation, late Jurassic, found in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Montana, and Europe.
Tricerotops and a Tyrannosaurus Rex
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