Dinosaur Collection Timeline, 1898-2008

11. 1938

Allosaurus fragilis, one of the largest and most common Late Jurassic predatory dinosaurs, is put on display in Dinosaur Hall.

12. 1909

Museum paleontologist Earl Douglass discovers the Carnegie Quarry in northeastern Utah, where 700,000 pounds of fossils of Jurassic Period dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Camarasaurus, Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus, Camptosaurus, and Allosaurus will be found over the course of a 13 year dig.

13. 1919

Douglass uncovers a juvenile Camarasaurus in the Carnegie Quarry, frozen in its death pose. Still the most complete sauropod skeleton ever found, the specimen is currently on display in Dinosaurs in Their Time.

14. 1938

Allosaurus fragilis, one of the largest and most common Late Jurassic predatory dinosaurs, is put on display in Dinosaur Hall.