Evening on Dinosaur Hill
by Jon Burch Photography
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Evening on Dinosaur Hill
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Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture And Enhancement
Description
A critter died here. You can see the bones in the rock near the western Colorado town of Fruita. The quarry on Dinosaur Hill 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.
A tunnel was blasted into the hillside where many bones of the dinosaur's skeleton were recovered. The tunnel was reopened in 1991 by a team of paleontologists who found an additional set of tail bones called chevrons.
I made this fossil photograph on an approximately one mile hike on a hot July afternoon when the ambient temperature was 100 degrees, never claimed to be very smart...
Image copyright 2013 Jon Burch Photography
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May 11th, 2016
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