Barren Hillside
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Barren Hillside
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Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture
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On a hill just like this history was made. The famous quarry on Dinosaur Hill near Fruita, Colorado is where a 70 foot long Apatosaurus was excavated by Elmer Riggs and his crew in 1901. Riggs was an Assistant Curator of Paleontology at the Field museum in Chicago. Apatosaurus is a genus that includes the popular synonym Brontosaurus, a sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period within the 600-foot-thick Morrison Formation. It was one of the largest land animals known to have ever existed, with an average length of 75 feet and a mass of at least 16 metric tons. This skeleton is now displayed at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.
Image copyright 2016 Jon Burch Photography
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May 5th, 2016
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