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The Prehistoric Museum was established in 1961 as a cooperative effort by the former College of Eastern Utah and the community of Price. On May 8, 1961, the Board of Regents established the museum. At that time, funding for the museum was supplied by the geology department at the college.
The USU Eastern campus is located in Price, Utah, United States. Founded as Carbon College in 1937, the college joined the University of Utah system in 1959 for 10 years and was renamed College of Eastern Utah (CEU). In 1969, the Utah System of Higher Education was created ending the relationship between the University of Utah and CEU.
Price, Utah. Price is a city in the U.S. state of Utah and the county seat of Carbon County. [4] The city is home to Utah State University Eastern, as well as the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum. Price is located within short distances of both Nine Mile Canyon and the Manti-La Sal National Forest. The population was 8,216 at the 2020 census, [5 ...
Jurassic National Monument, at the site of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, well known for containing the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found, is a paleontological site located near Cleveland, Utah, in the San Rafael Swell, a part of the geological layers known as the Morrison Formation.
After being discovered by Pilling in 1950, the 11 figurines went into the possession of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price. The museum took the figurines on statewide tour in Utah during the 1960s. While on tour one of the figurines, Number 2, disappeared. It is not clear as to exactly when the figurine went missing but only ten ...
Utah State University (USU or Utah State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Logan, Utah. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Founded in 1888 under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts as Utah's federal land-grant institution, Utah State serves as one of Utah's two flagship universities.
Detail of skull and neck. Reconstructed skeleton at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Price, Utah. The generic name is composed of the Latin words animatus ("living" or "animated") and arx ("fortress" or "citadel"), referring to its armored nature.
Block containing dense concentration of Falcarius bones (specimen number CEUM 8429). On display at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Price, Utah. The remains of Falcarius were first discovered in 1999 by commercial fossil collector Lawrence Walker at the Crystal Geyser Quarry site in Grand County.