KDVR – Yabba Dabba Doo! The Denver Museum of Nature and Science announced on Wednesday that it had discovered a 70 million -year -old dinosaurs under the car parking square in City Park in January.
Partial bone fossils were found 763 feet under the parking lot while DMNS was conducting a project for the thermal test, according to the museum.
“This is a scientific and historical discovery of both the museum and the Great Denver Society,” said Dr. James Hagadorne, a geologist at DMNS, in a statement.
The museum said that Al -Ahfouri is the deepest and oldest dinosaur, which is at all within the borders of Denver.
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Partial dinosaur bone recovered from the scientific nucleus – 763 feet below the surface of the Denver Museum of Science and Cars in January. (Compliment DMNS) -
Partial dinosaur bone recovered from the scientific nucleus – 763 feet below the surface of the Denver Museum of Science and Cars in January. (Compliment DMNS) -
The Ornithopod Dinosaur Eating, Thesseosurus during the last Cretaceous period, nearly 67 million years ago. Its paragraphs are similar to those in the heart of deep rocks below the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Compliment DMNS)
“These fossils come from an era before the collective extinction that eliminated dinosaurs, and provides a rare window in the ecosystem that was one day under the modern Denver,” said Hagadorn.
The fossil bone was identified as a dinosaur vertebrae from herbaceous animals, according to the museum, who said that the bone occurs in the late chalk rocks dating back about 67.5 million years.
Dr. Patrick Okonor, the director of Earth & Space Science in RMNS, was part of the team that identified the bone and said it was “the discovery of the most strange dinosaurs” was part of it.
“It is not extremely rare to find any fossil as part of the drilling project, but the discovery has provided a great cooperative opportunity for the Earth Sciences team in the museum to produce an article,” said Okonor.
Which – which condition“Denver deeper Dinoswar”, in the scientific journal “Rocky Mountain Geology” in June, led by post -doctoral DMNS researcher, Dr. Holger Peterman.
“These fossils confirm the very fossil nature of the entire D1 sequence (Denver formation) and increases the diversity of dinosaurs known from the Denver Metropolitan region,” and reads an excerpt from the summary of the article.
The fossil bone is currently displayed in DMNS.Discover Teen Rex” exhibition.