This cheerful specimen, a female that just had her eyebrows done at the salon,
greeted us as we entered Vernal, UT. It's a pinkosaurus.
The Carnegie Quarry Hall encloses an area of rock wall 150' wide and 30' high.
These embedded dinosaur bones are at eye level; you can touch them and are encouraged to do so. When first discovered, it didn't look like this, of course. The covering rock and debris was chipped away to expose the estimated 1500 dinosaur bones from about 100 different animals
This sign explains why so many dino-bones came to be in this area 150 million years ago.
The above shot shows about 1/3 of the quarry wall.
The black and whites are camosaurus; they won The Most Bones in the Wall prize. The toothy fellow in lower right resembles a t-rex but is another carnivorous species: allosaurus. The camosaurus is, obviously, the common ancestor of zebras, Holstein cows, painted ponies and dalmatians.
There are over 700 known dinosaur species and recent discoveries/research indicate that there may have been twice that many. Trish and I agreed that the Quarry wall was the biggest WOW! of our travels so far this summer.
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