INFORME DEL DR. R. NUInTEZ, PlJBLICADO 
en la Revista Epocas.—Agosto 1949. 
El hallazgo, en un modesto matografico o un cuento produ- 
dlstrito del Interior panameno, cido por la fantasia pueblerina 
de un fosil aulentico, pertene-* si cierto numero de huesos, de 
ciente a un incognito gigante del tamano juera de lo comun, no 
pasado, pareceria un truco cine- estuvieran actualmente en exhibi- 
• CH N C/RRIZO, organ z -dor do la Exped'c on, mostra^do una coyuniura del fosil, co- 
no eld.: entre los camjoesinos con el non.br e de "Chocozuela’ , . 
• Mr. CHIN CARRIZO, Manager of the POSADA SAN SEBASTIAN DE OCU Hotel, 
showing a bone of the fossill 
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THE FOSSIL OF OCU 
By Dr. R. Nunez 
Translator : JOHN F. W. HINES. 
Profesor of English. 
The discovery, in a modest dis¬ 
trict in Panama, of an authentic 
fossil that belongs to some un¬ 
known giant animal of the past, 
might have seemed like a cine¬ 
matographic trick or sounded 
like some tale invented by the 
people, had there not been on ex¬ 
hibition, in the small tourist hotel 
at Ocu, these bones which were 
transported there on the very day 
of their discovery, and had there 
not been in existence authentic 
Documents signed by thirty three 
witnesses who were present when 
the strange discovery of these 
bones of uncommon size was 
made in the nearby place of La 
Coca on the 23rd, July 1949. 
Nation unwide interest had been 
aroused following a publication 
in the press of the possible dis¬ 
covery of a dinosaur and the ne¬ 
cessity for satisfying this cu¬ 
riosity led to the formation of an 
expedition in which six of the 
witnesses participated, while the 
remaining twenty seven said the 
arrival of the vehicle bearing the 
bones „ which were cleaned, exa¬ 
mined and exposed to the public 
view in the Saint Sebastian Lod¬ 
ging House. 
The information concering this 
very interesting discovery, and, 
the proportions of the bones exhi¬ 
bited, indicate that the animal 
must have been of a gigantic size 
possib J y about ten times the size 
of a horse and of a very remote 
crigen. 
From what we know this is 
the first kind of this species of 
animals registered on the Isthmus 
of Panama. This, incidentally, 
lends itself to very important 
scientific deductions about our 
geology. To be sure, we would 
be greatly surprised if the experts, 
as a result of this kind of inves¬ 
tigation, were to establish facts 
contrary to those which are gen¬ 
erally believed that the Isthmian 
soil is not of recent formation 
but possesses an pmtiqvuity of 
more than five hundred thousand 
years-—figures which appear as¬ 
tronomical as compared with the 
human existence when measured 
m months days and hours. 
The total unburryirig of all the 
bones of this gigantic animal and 
the actual reconstruction of the 
fossil should next be done. This 
should be effected under the su¬ 
pervision of scientific experts, 
and with the assistance of the Na¬ 
tional Authorities and scientific 
and cultural centers in this and 
foreign countries; and at the ear¬ 
liest possible date as the fear that 
apportiunists and curious persons 
may remove portions of this in¬ 
teresting structure fully justifies 
its foundation . 
THE AGE OF THE 
nmosAURUS 
To what aniniul of the past 
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