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COMPUTER ANALYSIS
OF FOSSIL SPECIMEN
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Dinosaur:   TRICERATOPS
Body Part:  TORSO, LEGS
Age:        60 MILLION YEARS
            UPPER CRETACEOUS
Classification:
    Phylum: CHORDATA
    Class:  REPTILIA
    Order:  ORNITHISCHIA
    Family: CERATOPSIDAE
Notes:  DR. ROBERT BAKKER THEORIZES THAT A FIVE-TON TRICERATOPS COULD HAVE
OUTRUN A RHINOCEROS. 

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COMPUTER ANALYSIS
OF FOSSIL SPECIMEN
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Dinosaur:    TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Body Part:   TORSO, LEGS
Age:         75 MILLION YEARS
             UPPER CRETACEOUS
Classification:
    Phylum:  CHORDATA
    Class:   REPTILIA
    Order:   SAURISCHIA
    Family:  TYRANNOSAURIDAE
Notes: THE FRONT LEGS OF THIS 10 TON BEAST WERE PRACTICALLY USELESS.
THE TYRANNOSAURUS KILLED ITS PREY WITH ITS POWERFUL HIND LEGS AND JAW.

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COMPUTER ANALYSIS
OF FOSSIL SPECIMEN
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Dinosaur:   ARCHAEOPTERYX
Body Part:  TORSO, LEGS
            >NOT TO SCALE<
Age:        120 MILLION YEARS
            UPPER JURASSIC
Classification:
    Phylum: CHORDATA
    Class:  AVES
    Order:  ARCHAEOPTERYGIFORMES
    Family: ARCHAEOPTERYGIDAE
Notes:  IT IS NOT BELIEVED THAT THE ARCHAEOPTERYX WAS ACTUALLY
CAPABLE OF FLIGHT.  THE FEATHERS PROBABLY ORIGINATED FOR PRESERVING
HEAT AND TRAPPING SMALL INSECTS.
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COMPUTER ANALYSIS
OF FOSSIL SPECIMEN
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Dinosaur:    STEGOSAURUS
Body Part:   TORSO, LEGS
Age:         120 MILLION YEARS
             UPPER JURASSIC
Classification:
    Phylum:  CHORDATA
    Class :  REPTILIA
    Order:   ORNITHISCHIA
    Family:  STEGOSAURIDAE
Notes:  THE TRIANGULAR SHAPED PLATES ON THE BACK OF THE STEGOSAURUS
WERE USED FOR DEFENSE. THE CENTER OF GRAVITY OF THE STEGOSAURUS WAS
LOCATED AT THE PELVIS TO ALLOW THIS LARGE BEAST TO QUICKLY PIVOT
WHEN ATTACKED.

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COMPUTER ANALYSIS
OF FOSSIL SPECIMEN
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Dinosaur:    BRONTOSAURUS
             (APATOSAURUS)
Body Part:   TORSO, LEGS
Age:         165 MILLION YEARS
             UPPER JURASSIC
Classification:
    Phylum:  CHORDATA
    Class :  REPTILIA
    Order:   SAURISCHIA
    Family:  BRACHIOSAURIDAE
Notes:  THE BONES OF THE MASSIVE BODY WERE CUSHIONED BY THICK PADS OF 
CARTILAGE BETWEEN ITS JOINTS. 

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