Detail View: Image Archives: Trigonias Fossil Slab

File Name: 
00-2182B.1.jpg
catalog number: 
00-2182B.1
collection: 
Dioramas and Exhibits
title: 
Trigonias Fossil Slab
creator: 
Albert C. Rogers
creator type: 
photographer
creator: 
Stefanie A. Derkatsch
creator type: 
scanning technician or creator of digital collection
description: 
Trigonias fossil slab being prepared for a Denver Museum of Natural Hisotry (now Denver Museum of Nature and Science) exhibit. The exhibit featured a group of skeletons found at the Trigonias Quarry at Horsetail Creek. The excavation site was quite significant, yielding the remains of a variety of prehistoric rhinoceroses including at least three complete Trigonias skeletons as well as at least thirty-seven skulls, fifty-nine pairs of mandibles, eight pelvic girdles, eight trays of vertebrae, several complete sets of ribs, and numerous limb bones. Duplicate fossils were used in exchange with various institutions across the country including The Field Museum and Harvard University.
date: 
1915-1935
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
modified: 
Yes, shadow and highlights adjusted using Photoshop CS5
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
2.90 MB
source: 
8 x 10 black and white print scanned with Epson Exprssion 10000XL at 300dpi, 8bit grayscale with unsharp mask level high
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science