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Dinosaur Sites
19 destinations along 16 roads
The Colorado Plateau kept its dinosaurs unusually well, and Utah sits near the center of the record. In the Jurassic mudstones of the Morrison Formation whole assemblages turned to stone — nowhere more densely than the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry, where thousands of jumbled bones, most of them Allosaurus, still puzzle the people digging them out. Farther east, a cliff face at Dinosaur National Monument keeps its skeletons in place, half-freed from the rock. You come not to a museum but to the ground itself.