The museum also features numerous dinosaur displays, including a cast of the leg of the terrifying Utahraptor.Ĭontinue your journey at Paleosafari Moab Giants, where you can journey back through time with a 3D cinema introducing you to the prehistoric world of dinosaurs. Check out a full cast skeleton of Gastonia, one of the armored dinosaurs that lived in this area during the Early Cretaceous. Start your Dinosaur Field Trip in downtown Moab, at the Museum of Moab. With so many dinosaur resources in one place, Moab is the perfect place to design your own Family Dinosaur Field Trip!y The Moab Giants features a half-mile-long trail with more than 130, state-of-the-art, full size reconstructions of dinosaurs and the tracks they made in the area. Also, as of 2014-5, crews from the Museum of Moab and the Natural History Museum of Utah have been working at the site of a Dystrophaeus viaemalae, the geologically oldest sauropod dinosaur in North America. The Museum of Moab features a full cast skeleton of Gastonia, one of the armored dinosaurs that lived in this area during the Early Cretaceous.
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Many dinosaurs have been found around Moab, including a small carnivorous dinosaur from the Triassic, a large Camarasaurus from the Jurassic, a gigantic Brontosaurus also from the Jurassic, and Cretaceous dinosaurs such as Utahraptor and Gastonia.
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The first dinosaur discovery in Utah happened in 1859 (coincidentally, this was fifty years to the day prior to the discovery of the first bones found at the site later known as Dinosaur National Monument). Events submit an event blog contact search Covid-19 Info ☰ĭid You Know? First Utah Dinosaur Discovery