Bones in the Well

Dino on display at the Warehouse Point Library....kinda.

A cast made from the bones of little fella they found by a farmer while digging a well in 1818. 

In 1885 Othniel Charles Marsh, a paleontologist from Yale’s Peabody Museum, examined the fossils and deduced that they were from a small sauropodomorph, a herbivorous ancestor of large, long-necked sauropods such as Apatosaurus. He dubbed the specimen Anchisaurus, which means “near lizard.”

The bones remain at the Yale Peabody Museum, which is sadly undergoing renovations. 

Fun Facts;

• The term "dinosaur" didn't even exist until 1841. Richard Owen coined the word Dinosaur (originally Dinosauria) and it originates from two greek words deinos – terrible, powerful, wondrous and sauros – lizard. Before 1841 people just called them dragons!
• Some researchers believe that the “Bones from the Well” as the fossils are often called, were the first scientifically-documented dinosaur bones found in North America.

What to know before you go;

• it's a tiny little display, but it's right by the font door. 
• there is a rock in the parking lot that has dino footprints but you have to look for it. (if there are cars parked there, you won't see it easily.)