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Theropod dinosaur (composite)
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC, United States
Fossil collector Marshall Felch discovered this Allosaurus specimen in a quarry near Garden Park, Colorado. It was the first nearly complete Allosaurus found and is one of the most scientifically important specimens of Allosaurus in the world.
Details
- Title: Theropod dinosaur (composite)
- Location: Morrison Formation, Fremont Co., Colorado
- Physical Dimensions: L: 750 cm W: 118 cm H: 197 cm
- Type: Fossil
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- External Link: View this object record in the Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center
- Weight: 1000 kg (estimated)
- USNM Catalog Number(s): 4734, and others
- Scientific Name: <i>Allosaurus fragilis</i>
- Photo Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Historic Period: Lived 157–145 million years ago
- Geologic Age: Mesozoic - Jurassic - Upper/Late - Kimmeridgian
- Field: Paleobiology
- Date Collected: 1883
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