The Dinosaurs of Dinosaur

 

Dinosaur National Monument is famous for its remarkable dinosaur quarry. Today, visitors have the opportunity to see the bones in-situ, which means that bones have been carefully exposed but left in the ground as they were found. However, in the early 1900s, the Carnegie Quarry was very active and many dinosaurs were removed, studied, and put on display. The Carnegie Quarry represents the one of the most ecologically complete assemblage of Late Jurassic dinosaurs in the entire world. Type specimens of distinct species of existing dinosaur genera first named by Edward Cope and Charles Marsh, originate from the Carnegie Quarry. Dinosaur fossils from Carnegie Quarry are housed in museum collections all over the world. Skeletons from Carnegie Quarry can be seen in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Even a century later, paleontologists come to Dinosaur to study and discover more information about dinosaurs and small animals that lived with them.

From the mighty sauropod (long necked dinosaur) to the fragments of the tiniest lizard bones, Dinosaur National Monument is full of fossil treasures that are both beautiful and scientifically fascinating.

 

Abydosaurus mcintoshi

Abydosaurus is the most recently discovered dinosaur at Dinosaur National Monument.

 

Allosaurus fragilis

Allosaurus fragilis is the most common species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur in the Morrison Formation from the Late Jurassic of North America.

 

Allosaurus jimmadseni

Allosaurus jimmadseni is the second species of Allosaurus found at Dinosaur National Monument.

 

Apatosaurus louisae

Apatosaurus grew up to 70 ft long and ate plants. You may have also heard it referred to by its scientifically incorrect name, Brontosaurus.

 

Barosaurus lentus

Barosaurus is a plant eater and the least common of all the sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) found in the Carnegie Quarry.

 

Camarasaurus lentus

Camarasaurus is one of the most common sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) of the Jurassic.

 

Camptosaurus aphanoecetes

Camptosaurus is a two-legged plant eating dinosaur.

 

Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus is a meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation.

 

Diplodocus longus

Diplodocus is one of the most abundant sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) in the Morrison Formation.

 

Dryosaurus elderae

Dryosaurus means "oak lizard" in reference to the leaf shaped teeth.

 

Stegosaurus ungulates

Stegosaurus is a plant eating dinosaur with plates on its back and spikes on its tail.

 

Torvosaurus tanneri

Torvosaurus tanneri is a species of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America.