SALT LAKE CITY — High above the Utah desert, paleontologists finished work on a fossil first found in 1859, closing one of the longest recoveries in American dinosaur history.
The fossil was located high on the side of a cliff, making it almost impossible to recover for more than 150 years. When we show you the site, you’ll know why it took so long.
The dinosaur is Dystrophaeus viaemalae, and according to Carrie Levitt-Bussian, Paleontology Collections Manager for the Natural History Museum of Utah, it was the first dinosaur found west of the Mississippi river…