Denver (Kdvr) -Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS) announced on Wednesday that it had discovered about 70 million years old dinosaur fossil under its parking lot.
According to the museum, partial-halie fossils were found 763 feet below during a geothermal test drilling project in January.
“It is a scientific and historically exciting for both the museum and the large Denver community,” said James Hagadorn, curator of geology at DMNS.
The museum stated that fossil Denver is the deepest and oldest dinosaurs found within the city border.
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“This fossil comes from an era before the mass extinction that erases the dinosaurs, and it offers a rare window in the ecosystem that was once present just below the modern-day Denver,” Hagadorn said.
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A part of the dinosaur bone was recovered from the scientific core – in January, Danver Museum of Nature and Science Parking was drilled 763 feet below the surface of the lot. (Courtesy DMNS) -
In January, a partial dinosaur bone was recovered from the scientific core drilled 763 feet below the surface of Danver Museum of Science and Nature Parking. (Courtesy DMNS) -
In January, a partial dinosaur bone was recovered from the scientific core drilled 763 feet below the surface of Danver Museum of Science and Nature Parking. (Courtesy DMNS) -
About 67 million years ago, a plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur, Thecellosaurus during the latest Creteseous period. His vertebra is similar to the one found in the rock core below the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Courtesy DMNS)
The fossil bone has been identified as the vertebrae of a vegetarian dinosaur, according to the museum, stating that the bone is in late cratesius rocks that are dated about 67.5 million years ago.
The DMNS was part of the team, director of Earth and Space Science, part of the team who identified the bone and said that it could be “the most unusual dinosaur discovery” which he was ever part.
O’Coner said, “It is exceptionally rare to find any fossil not only as part of the drilling project, but this discovery provided an excellent collaborative opportunity to create an article for the Museum Earth Sciences Team.”
He Article“Denver’s deepest dinosaur,” was published in June in scientist Journal Rocky Mountain Geology. Research was led by DMNS PostDoctor Scholar Dr. Holgar Peterman did it.
“This fossil outlines the highly fossil nature of the entire D1 sequence (Denver formation) and enhances the diversity of dinosaurs known from the Denver Metropolitan region,” reads a fraction from the essence of the article.
Fossil bone is now currently on display In DMNS your “Search Kishore Rex” exhibition.
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