{"id":98576,"date":"2016-06-18T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98576"},"modified":"2016-06-20T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:30:16","slug":"gundy-the-triceratops-at-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98576","title":{"rendered":"“Gundy,” the Triceratops at Barnes Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Gundy-Triceratops\"<\/a>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Barnes County Historical Society in Valley City is the new happy home for a Triceratops from the North Dakota Geological Survey!<\/div>\n
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It\u00a0 is a replacement for “Bob” the triceratops fossil we had on display that left in December. Bob’s leaving indeed made a large vacancy in our museum that “Gundy” fills nicely. \u00a0We’re grateful for the opportunity to host her (We think it is a she).<\/div>\n
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It is here at the Barnes County Museum to be seen freely to the public 10am-4pm Mon-Sat <\/strong>or by appointment. \u00a0We also have some more fossils on exhibit from the NDGS that are of sea creatures of the Western Interior Seaway from 65 million years ago that once covered eastern ND.<\/div>\n
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Gundy the Triceratops<\/b><\/p>\n

Mike Triebold, of Triebold Paleontology, discovered Gundy in 1992 on private ranch-land in the Hell Creek formation deposits of Northwestern South Dakota.\u00a0 She was more than 80% complete.\u00a0 Her skull is 5 1\/2 feet long and 4 feet wide and was almost 95% complete in its fossil form.\u00a0 She is about 18 feet long.<\/p>\n

Gundy is a sub-adult Triceratops prorsus.\u00a0 There are two main types:\u00a0 T. prorsus, which has a double-curve to the brow horns and a large nose horn, and T. horridus, which has straighter brow horns and a small nose horn.\u00a0 T. prorsus is usually found higher in the strata than T. horridus, so there is the possibility that T. prorsus evolved from T. horridus. The original specimen is on display at the Gunma Prefectural Museum in Japan.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The name \u2018Triceratops\u2019 comes from the Greek language, with \u2018tri\u2019 meaning three, \u2018k\u00e9ras\u2019 meaning horn, and\u00a0 \u2018ops\u2019 meaning face.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous Period (around 66 million years ago).<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Triceratops is one of the most easily recognizable dinosaurs due to its large body, unique frill and three horns.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It needed its three horns to try and protect itself from the Tyrannosaurus rex which lived during the same time period, as well as identify other members of its species.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is believed that fully grown Triceratops were about 26ft long, 10ft high and weighed anywhere from 6 to 12 tons.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The skull of a Triceratops alone could grow over 7ft in length.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Triceratops was the most common dinosaur species found in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Triceratops was a plant eating (herbivore) dinosaur<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Barnes County Historical Society in Valley City is the new happy home for a Triceratops from the North Dakota Geological Survey! \u00a0 It\u00a0 is a replacement for “Bob” the triceratops fossil we had on display that left in December. Bob’s leaving indeed made a large vacancy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102779,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98576\/revisions\/102779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}