Digging Dinosaurs: Discovering Utah’s Fossils (K-12, Geology, Earth Science)

DESCRIPTION: This toolbox provides teachers with one-of-a-kind Museum casts of dinosaurs unearthed by Utah paleontologists.

CONTENTS:

Fossil Specimens:

• • Allosaurus upper jaw bone with teeth
  • Tyrannosaurus rex tooth
  • Utahraptor hand claw
  • Grallator track (footprint)
  • Black bear jaw
  • Elk jaw
  • Coyote jaw
  • Diabloceratops skull frill piece & horn
  • Apatosaurus hip bone with tooth marks
  • Tarbosaurus toe bones
  • Dinosaur egg
  • Modern and fossilized seashell
  • Modern and petrified wood

• • DK Eyewitness: Fossil by Dr. Paul Taylor
  • DK Eyewitness: Dinosaur (with CD & Poster) by David Lambert
  • Bones Rock! by Peter Larson & Kristin Donnan
  • Dinosaurs of Utah by Pat Bagley
  • Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki

• • DVD—A Fossil’s Journey
  • NHMU
  • Measuring Tapes (5)
  • Hand Lenses (5)
  • Laminated Dino Fact Cards (for each dinosaur fossil cast in crate) (8)
  • Laminated Deep Time Maps – World and Utah (23)
  • Meet the NHMU Paleontologists (2 bios)
  • Utah’s Newest Dinosaur Discoveries (articles & photos)
  • Rules for Collecting Fossils in Utah
  • Utah in the Age of the Dinosaurs
  • Where to see fossils in Utah – Utah Museums
  • Quarries
  • Tracksites
  • List of good websites
  • Care of Fossil Casts Sheet

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GRADE/SUBJECT: K-8; Geology, Earth Science

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Website