Unfortunately it was, and still remains, very
imperfectly known. It was very closely related to the American
_Allosaurus_ and unquestionably similar in appearance and habits.[6]
ALLOSAURUS.
The following extract is from the American Museum Journal for January
1908.[7]
"Although smaller than its huge contemporary Brontosaurus, this animal
is of gigantic proportions being 34 feet 2 inches in length, and 8
feet 3 inches high."
[Illustration: Fig. 11.--MOUNTED SKELETON OF ALLOSAURUS IN THE
AMERICAN MUSEUM. _After Osborn_]
_History of the Allosaurus Skeleton._ "This rare and finely preserved
skeleton was collected by Mr. F.F. Hubbell in October 1879, in the
Como Bluffs near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the richest locality in
America for dinosaur skeletons, and is a part of the great collection
of fossil reptiles, amphibians and fishes gathered together by the
late Professor E.D. Cope, and presented to the American Museum in 1899
by President Jesup.
"Shortly after the Centennial Exposition (1876) it had been planned
that Professor Cope's collection of fossils should form part of a
great public museum in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the city
undertaking the cost of preparing and exhibiting the specimens, an
arrangement similar to that existing between the American Museum and
the City of New York.[8]
"The plan, however, fell through, and the greater part of this
magnificent collection remained in storage in the basement of Memorial
Hall in Fairmount Park, for the next twenty years.
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