Drought May Have Killed San Rafael Dinosaurs

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › April 30, 2007

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A University of Utah graduate student may have found the answer to one of the big mysteries in paleontology: Why did scores of dinosaurs die in the San Rafael Swell?

The site is the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry about 30 miles south of Price. Most of the allosaurus skeletons in the world's museums come from this desert quarry.

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Drought May Have Killed San Rafael Dinosaurs

On Saturday, the Bureau of Land Management rededicated the quarry's visitor center, filled with new exhibits and double the size of the original 1968 structure. About 110 attended, despite the necessity of traveling th...

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