UGS scientist Hellmut Doelling honored in naming of Utah’s newest raptor dinosaur; Yurgovuchia doellingi
Updated: 2012-05-31 01:20:53
Utah Geological Survey (UGS) paleontologists have uncovered three new dromaeosaur (“raptor”) dinosaurs near the base of Utah’s Cretaceous fossil record (130-120 million years ago) in eastern Utah on Bureau of Land Management lands near Arches National Park. The paper describing these new dinosaurs — New dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah and [...]

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