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Mounting the Psittacosaurus Fossil
Mt. Blanco Museum has been contracted to mount the
skeleton for a collector in the Dallas area. Mr. Stan Lutz, a
welder and fossil
collector from Washington State is working at the museum and will be
doing the difficult
job of welding the wire armature to hold the real bones.
The dinosaur is
a Psittacosaurus (sit-tak-o-saurus) and was the size of a small
collie
dog. The most unusual
part of the animal, which is being sent later, is it's head. It
is more like a parrot than a dinosaur.
There are untold numbers of
these animals
buried in the Gobi desert. Most of them are whole and were buried
alive.
These bones are petrified
and are of a
glassy gray color similar to bones of the vast numbers of pigs and
horses
buried in the volcanic ash of South Dakota and Nebraska.
Taylor vacuuming strange, hard sawdust from the
box sent from China
with the skeleton of small dinosaur.
Stan Lutz prepares to glue
the
small dinosaur bones back together damaged in shipment.
Real bones laid out on
drawing of a Psittacosaurus enlarged to fit this specimen.
We enlarged a drawing of
the
dinosaur by xeroxing it up to fit the length of the right femur,
which was only
5&1/2 inches long.
