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Grand Junction Geological Society

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Paleontology and Geology of the Dinosaur Triangle, 1987
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Paleontological Significance of the Dinosaur Triangle

Harley J. Armstrong, Elizabeth S. McReynolds

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Dinosaur bones and other fossil remains have been noted from the Dinosaur Triangle area since at least 1900. The three points of the Triangle, Grand Junction, Colorado, and Price and Vernal, Utah, and their surrounding areas have yielded fossils and associated scientific data of local, national, and international interest. Grand Junction, home of the Musuem of Western Colorado, has yielded some of the largest and smallest known dinosaurs in the world as well as many other vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant localities. The area around Price includes the dinosaur-rich Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry, more than 10 known fossil eggshell localities, numerous tracksites, and many other localities containing reptile, mammal, plant, and other fossils. Many of these finds are exhibited at the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price. Vernal boasts both the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park and the nearby Dinosaur National Monument. The Utah Field House contains exhibits covering important regional paleontological discoveries and includes lifesize dinosaur replicas in their Dinosaur Gardens. Dinosaur National Monument contains the Dinosaur National Monument Quarry, an ongoing exhibit that has yielded an abundance of scientific dinosaur specimens and data on a number of different types of dinosaurs.


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