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    • Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
    • American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
    • Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
    • Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL
    • BYU Museum of Paleontology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
    • Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
    • Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, cincinnati, OH
    • Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
    • Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO
    • Dinosaur Journey Museum of Western Colorado, Fruita, CO
    • The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
    • Fryxell Geology Museum, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
    • Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée, Paris, France
    • Ghost Ranch Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, Abiquiu, NM
    • Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
    • KU Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
    • La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    • McWane Science Center, Birmingham, AL
    • Moab Giants, Moab, UT
    • Museum of Ancient Life, Lehi, UT
    • Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
    • Natural History Museum, London, England
    • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
    • Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    • New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
    • Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX
    • Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, CO
    • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
    • Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta
    • Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK
    • Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
    • Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS
    • University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, MI
    • University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE
    • University of Wyoming Geological Museum, Laramie, WY
    • Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis, WY
    • Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT
  • Track sites & bone beds
    • Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park, Orchard, NE
    • Clayton Lake State Park Dinosaur Tracksite, Clayton, NM
    • Jurassic National Monument/Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, near Cleveland, UT
    • Dinosaur Footprints Reservation, Holyoke, MA
    • Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen, UT
    • Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
    • Dinosaur Ridge, Morrison, CO
    • Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, CT
    • Dinosaur Valley State Park, Glen Rose, TX
    • Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, Hot Springs, SD
    • Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, near Shell, WY
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    • Archaeopteryx
    • Brachiosaurus
    • Cryolophosaurus
    • Daeodon
    • Deinonychus
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    • Pachycephalosaurus
    • Parasaurolophus
    • Smilodon
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Category: Fossil of the Week

Cast of "Sandy" the Pachycephalosaurus. Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, CO.

Allosaurus Roar’s Fossil of the Week, 3/6/17

March 6, 2017 johngnida

One of the more unusual dinosaur families are the pachycephalosaurs.  The most well-known of them lived in the Late Cretaceous period and were among the

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Crouching Smilodon display, La Brea Tar Pits Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Allosaurus Roar’s Fossil of the Week, 2/27/17

February 27, 2017 johngnida

If you asked Americans to name two extinct animals that lived after the dinosaurs died out, there is little doubt the two most common answers

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Close-up of Cryolophosaurus' head crest. Fryxell Geology Museum, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL.

Allosaurus Roar’s Fossil of the Week, 2/20/17

February 20, 2017 johngnida

In typical circumstances, excavating a fossil dinosaur is extremely difficult.  In 1991, paleontologist Dr. William Hammer and his team from Augustana College excavated a large

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"Fran" the Acrocanthosaurus. North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, NC.

Allosaurus Roar’s Fossil of the Week 1/23/17

January 23, 2017 johngnida

For the first Fossil of the Week feature I thought I’d focus on one of my favorites, an awesome ferocious dinosaur that doesn’t get nearly

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