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 Gastonia
burgei
 Known as Utah's "Dean of Dinosaurs",
geology instructor Don Burge built the CEU Prehistoric Museum out of a dream that he
shared with a night class over 30 years ago. As a fresh transplant from Southern
California, Burge was amazed at the amount of dinosaurs Eastern Utah had to offer.
After years of digging throughout the desert, finding
the fossilized skeletons of prehistoric beasts, Burge was finally rewarded by having a
newly discovered dinosaur named after him. In May of 1995, the Gastonia
burgei was
officially unveiled. Discovered at the site of the Utahraptor quarry by armature
rock hound
Robert Gaston and Don Burge, quarry crews from the CEU Museum were called in to excavate
this strange new species.
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Last Update:
06/17/08
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