V. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



BULLETIN" 707 PLATE XXXII 



A. AN ARMORED DINOSAUR (STEGOSAURUS). 



Stegosaurus (platod lizard) lived long, long before man existed on the globe. His bones were 

 found in the Morrison formation in Garden Park, 6 miles nortli of Canon City. The 

 animal was 20 feet long, 10 feel high at the hips, and protected from the onslaughts of other 

 equally powerful but carnivorous lizards by great bony plates along the back. His food 

 consisted of the vegetation that grew on the low marshy land of that time. 



B. TRICKRATOPS. THE LAST OF THE DINOSAURS. 



Triceratops (three-horned face) was the last of the great dinosaurs. Rones of this animal have 

 been found in the vicinity of Denver. ,\ mounted skeleton in the National Museum. Wash- 

 ington, is 20 feet long and 8 feet high at the hips. The most jjeculiar thing about this animal 

 is the great bony •" frill" covering and i)rotecting his neck. From ()ainting by C. R. Knight, 

 made under the direction of J. R. Hatcher. 



