What's your state dinosaur?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

MD's is the Astrodon johnstoni.

Astrodon means "star tooth" and derives from the fossils found in 1858 by Philip Tyson, then Maryland's State Agricultural Chemist. His discovery of two teeth in the Arundel Clay near Muirkirk in Prince George's County was one of the earliest dinosaur finds in this country and the first in Maryland. Tyson gave the teeth to a local doctor and dentist Christopher Johnston, who sliced a tooth into cross sections, discovering a star pattern. In his 1859 article for the American Journal of Dental Science, Dr. Johnston called the species Astrodon.

[NightTrain]

1. Here's the state dinosaur of Connecticut

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. hehheh...

Positively Pleistocene!

[bigwillq]

11. LOL!

[rockymountaindem]

2. Stegosaurus.

Affectionately known at the Denver Museum of Natural History as "Steggie".

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. I love steggies...

When I was a kid, I read a book called "The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek". Cute story...

[Elidor]

3. Used to be Zell Miller

But I'm in Tennessee now, where there is "Missing Link" Davis.

[Cush]

6. Virginia: Chesapecten jeffersonius (an extinct Pliocene scallop)

its a State Fossil

[Xithras]

7. Heh, California

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Seriously, California has no formal state dinosaur, but it does have a state fossil:

Smilodon fatalis (formerly Smilodon californicus), better known as the Sabre Tooth Cat

[catzies]

9. It's eerie, how you read my mind like that.

RONALD REAGAN were the first words that popped into my head when I saw this thread! GMTA!

[guitar man]

8. I'm pretty sure this is the Oklahoma state dinosaur

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Do you still have Sinclair gas stations?

They haven't been in Chicago since I was a kid -- which is a long time ago.

I remember an old joke about a Sinclair gas station that had lost the "c" in its name. So it read "Sin lair".

[guitar man]

16. Yep,still have them

In Tulsa anyway,and a refinery too. Actually,I think they have the best quality gas. My baby loves their premium.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. I thought they had disappeared LONG ago.

But the station in your photo looked current. Interesting. No longer in Chicago, used to be the closest gas station to where I lived.

Been gone 30 or more years here.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. I had one of their inflatable dinos

when I was a kid. I loved that thing!

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. The Texasaurus

[DemoTex]

12. Actually, the Texas State Dinosauer is the "Pleurocoelus."

http://www.statefossils.com/tx/txdino.html

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. Sunds like a dino with bad lungs.

coff-coff.

As in...."I'm sorry, Mr. T-Rex, but you seem to have developed a case of pleurocoelus."

[KamaAina]

13. One of the ones from Jurassic Park

which was filmed on the island of Kaua'i.

[Taverner]

14. Rod Stewart

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. Sue!

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/default.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Coooooooool!

Thanks for the URL!

[benburch]

30. Actually...

I believe that Illinois has no State Dinosaur.

We do have a State Fossil, though; Tullimonstrum gregarium (Tully Monster)

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/mazon_creek/

It is a strange creature from the Mazon Creek formation which has no obvious place in the taxonomic charts.

[benburch]

32. Reconstruction of the Tully Monster

The little things on stalks are presumed to be eyes.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. Looks kind of like a leech...

Very cool! I like the fossil specimen pics on the site! :yourock:

[DS1]

19. Mass Pike Tolls

[sniffa]

23. y'mean the buckets?

they removed those. bastards!

[northofdenali]

20. Teddorus stevenus

a/k/a Senator-for-Life Ted Stevens

State fossil is the wooly mammoth, although "fossil" could easily be applied to Ted, as well.............

[dolo amber]

22. Here's ours

Wow...that's harsh. I hope everyone's had their coffee before they see that...:scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Hmm...Maybe mass extinction

does have a few advantages...

[bif]

26. The Freepersaurus

They're everywhere!

[sus]

27. wow....

i didn't even know MD had a state dinosaur..

[IronLionZion]

29. PA's state dinosaur

Arlen Specter

[patcox2]

31. New Jersey - Hadrosaurus

The first dinosaur ever discovered in the US, named after the town of Haddonfield.

[bif]

33. Michigan's is quite scary looking

The Englerosaurus

Luckily he's long gone!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Albertosaurus I guess. Makes sense, really.

http://www.cbv.ns.ca/marigold/history/dinosaurs/datafiles/albertosaurus.html

[blindpig]

35. Strom Thurmond

greetings from SC!

[Burma Jones]

36. Noooooo, William Donald Schaffer is MD's state Dinosaur...

[nemo137]

38. Illinois - the tellemonster

discovered in northern illinois in the late 19th cen, it's a jellyfish type deal. real weird.