

Plated Dinosaurs 95 



sauria characteristic of the late Cretaceous of 

 this country. 



In 1905 while conducting an expedition to the 

 Kansas chalk I discovered the broken up skele- 

 ton of what I considered a large new sea tortoise 

 with an ossified carapace, it attracted my atten- 

 tion and I knew it must be new, but as it was 

 badly weathered, and detached from its matrix, 

 concluded it could not be used and left it there. 

 Later, my son George brought into camp, a few 

 miles from Hackberry Creek, where I found my 

 specimen, some peculiar plates, like the ones al- 

 ready mentioned. But as I had no knowledge of 

 Barnum Brown's discovery I concluded they 

 were neurals of a new turtle. These I sent to Dr. 

 Weiland for description. Last month I was his 

 guest at Yale University museum. He asked me 

 why I thought it a new turtle. After giving my 

 reasons, he told me they were new enough, but 

 these plates were of an armored dinosaur. Later 

 through George's efforts, I secured the skeleton 

 I found the year before. I went over the mass 

 of fragments and separated the armor, and found 

 the entire skeleton was covered with a complete- 

 ly cossified dermal covering, in most beautiful 

 patterns, the larger scutes were diamond-shaped, 

 with round angles, with elevated keel down the 

 center, the interspaces filled with small plates 

 of various forms. This is the second instance of 

 remains of a dinosaur being found in the Kansas 

 chalk, showing that the bones of swamp and land 



