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Exhibit features dinosaur, artifacts from Danger Cave

Published: Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 10:00 p.m. MST
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The Utah Museum of Natural History has installed one of its satellite exhibits — The "Solving Puzzles in Bone and Stone" — on the lower level of the Utah State Capitol.

This exhibit features a newly-discovered ceratopsian dinosaur from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and ancient artifacts found in Danger Cave near Wendover.

Exhibit features are:

The complete arm of a newly discovered ceratopsian, or horned dinosaur, that has yet to be named and has never been on display. The skin impression from a ceratopsian dinosaur; only a few such imprints exist in the world, and it's the only one found in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

Stone projectile points (arrows and spearheads), abraders (used to smooth or sharpen wood and bone tools), and scrapers (used to scrape animal hides) found by University of Utah archaeologist Jesse Jennings. Radiocarbon dates from Danger Cave artifacts go back to 7,000 years ago.

This exhibit will be accessible the during regular hours at the State Capitol.

There are also different satellite exhibits by the Natural History Museum at the Salt Lake International Airport and the Salt Lake City Main Library.

For more information, call 581-6927, or go to: www.umnh.utah.edu

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