SOUTHEAST PAVILION 



Dinosaur Hall 

 Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes 



The visitor now enters the Southeast Pavilion containing the dinosaurs 

 and other fossil reptiles and also fishes. These animals l)el()ng to a more 

 ancient period than the s];)e('imens just examined. They lived from 



DUCK-BILLED DINOSAURS, TRACHODON 



3,000,000 to 10,000,000 years ago. They include the well-known 



dinosaurs of which the Museum has a large collection. 



_,. , . In the wall case on the left is a portion of the skeleton 



Diplodocus f 1 1- 



01 the dinosaur Diplodocus; this was the first of these 



specimens to be unearthcnl by the Museum, while on the right is a 



nearly complete skeleton of another dinosaur (Saurolophus) mounted 



as it lay when, three millions years ago, it settled to the bottom of a 



western lake where it was gradually covered with sand and mud and 



slowly turned into stone. 



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