Re: earliest herbivore

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

I checked the Yale Peabody museum collections and the earliest dated
Connecticut dinosaur find was from 1884, which was an _Ammosaurs major_
(a very early sauropod) which appeares to have been collected by Marsh
in Hartford Conn, and published in 1891.

This site leads me to think that perhaps this is what you might be
looking for...in New Jersey
A _Hadrosaurus folkii_ found in 1858    
http://www.levins.com/dinosaur.html

-Betty Cunningham

Philidor11@AOL.COM wrote:
> 
> One of my old and probably unreliable books says the earliest herbivorous
> dinosaur fossil was discovered in a quarry in windsor locks, connecticut.  Any
> truth?
> Mark Twain described a camel as a horse designed by committee.  Another of my
> books says camels evolved in or near connecticut.  Having been on a number of
> connecticut committees I hope the camel evolution assertion is true.
> Connecticut unquestionably has dinosaur tracks.  A staff member told me the
> state was a mud flat squelched through by (vacationing) dinosaurs on their way
> to New Jersey from Montreal.  I want to believe this one.