Dinosaur National Monument

The Dinosaur National Monument [ daɪnəsɔ ː r -] ( German Dinosaur National Monument ) is a protected area of the United States of America to the southeastern foothills of the Uinta Mountains - a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains. It covers both sides of the borders of Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green River and Yampa River, an area of ​​832.4 km ². In addition to the Dinosaur Quarry ⊙ 40.440555555556-109.30111111111 ( Dinosaur reference; open only 0.3 km ² of the monument, archaeological hall since the fall of 2011 again ) include the canyons of Green and Yampa River to the main attractions of the National Monuments.

History

The region around present-day Dinosaur Quarry was first discovered in August 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the bumped into countless body fossils and they then sent for further research in the Carnegie Museum. In the aftermath of thousands of individual bones and several well-preserved skeletons were excavated by dinosaurs, until the area in 1915 was finally made ​​by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as a national monument under protection. By 1938 it comprised merely 0.3 km ² to the dinosaur sites in the U.S. state of Utah before with a huge expansion to 832.4 km ² and the canyons of Green and Yampa River were included in the monument.