Late Cretaceous Fauna - Tyrannosaurus Rex Ilium

Zoology

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Frontier Gateway Museum

T-Rex Ilium taped up for removal from excavation site.: John Harmala’s fossil hammer is leaning against the bone for size perspective.
T-Rex Ilium taped up for removal from excavation site.

John Harmala’s fossil hammer is leaning against the bone for size perspective.

Name/Title

Late Cretaceous Fauna - Tyrannosaurus Rex Ilium

Entry/Object ID

GA68.24.18

Description

T-Rex ilium during excavation before Spring of 1969

Acquisition

Notes

Donation

General Notes

Note

Wes and his dad, Les, donated this fossil to Frontier Gateway Museum and then after a decade or more of neglect the fossil was rescued from the back of a wagon exposed to the elements and now decades later has been returned to the museum to be glued back together and prepared for display. This huge bone could very well be the ilium of a T-Rex. Details of the original excavation can be found on pages 339 to 341 in the book, Greg and Doc, Two Souls Surrounded by Badlands — a Memoir.