Fruita, Colorado Riggs and crew found nearly two thirds of an "Apatosaurus excelsus" skeleton (commonly known as a Brontosaurus) on the northeast side of Dinosaur Hill, in Fruita. This is still considered to be one of the finest specimens known. Later, other sauropod bones were also found, which eventually led to the landmark's name. The animals were from the late Jurassic Age (150 million years ago) and within the Morrison Formation. Fossils of the "Fruitadens" (a heterodontosaurid dinosaur), the world's smallest known plant-eating dinosaur, were first found in the Fruita Paleontological Area (within the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area) off Kings View
Alan the Dinosaur vertebra encased within sandstone and measuring 145 mm in length. The fossil first went on public display in the Yorkshire Museum in June 2015. It was redisplayed as part of the "Yorkshire's Jurassic World Exhibition", which opened in March 2018. The exhibition features a virtual reality experience in which users can feed a digital reconstruction of Alan. Alan the Dinosaur Alan the Dinosaur is the name given to an unidentified Sauropodomoph fossil, found in Whitby in 1995, regarded as the oldest sauropod dinosaur found in the United Kingdom. It is now in the Yorkshire Museum. The fossil was discovered in