Elmer S. Riggs Riggs' assistant, H. William Menke, found the first known skeleton of the giant sauropod dinosaur "Brachiosaurus altithorax" from near Grand Junction, Colorado. At the end of the 1900 field season Riggs' found a specimen of "Apatosaurus" near Fruita, a few miles from the Brachiosaurus site. This specimen was excavated during the 1901 field season, and was put on display in 1908 at the Field Museum. From these specimens he named "Brachiosaurus" and Brachiosauridae, and presented evidence that "Apatosaurus" and "Brontosaurus" were the same genus of dinosaur. He also proposed that sauropods were terrestrial animals, based on their limb structure, but
Wyoming Dinosaur Center on the property is from the "Something Interesting" or SI excavation site. This site presents the rare occurrence of both dinosaur trace fossils and body fossils including footprints of many Sauropods and "Allosaurus" as well as skeletal remains from "Camarasaurus, Diplodocus," and "Apatosaurus" - three of the sauropods most common in the area during the Late Jurassic. Most of the bones belong to a juvenile (30 foot long) "Camarasaurus" that was scavenged by many "Allosaurs". This is known based on the presence of both teeth and claw marks on many of the bones present as well as an abundance of