Dinosaur Park Dinosaur Park Dinosaur Park is a tourist attraction in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore. Constructed by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Administration, WPA Project #960's dinosaurs were designed by Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan also designed the "Apatosaurus" (formerly thought of as a synonym of "Brontosaurus") at Wall Drug nearby in Wall, South Dakota, the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and the
Shishugou Formation dinosaur traps sporting a crest running from its nose to the back of its head. Its discovery was hailed by paleontologists as the earliest known remains of the tyrannosauroid clan that culminated with "Tyrannosaurus rex". Shishugou Formation dinosaur traps The Shishugou Formation dinosaur traps also known as death pits or death traps are found in the Shishugou Formation, located in the Junggar Basin within Xinjiang Province of northwestern China. They are a rich source of Jurassic Period dinosaur fossils, many of which were new species to palaeontology. The Junggar Basin is a large continental basin made up of fluviatile and lacustrine sediments