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Coelophysis dinosaurs found in New Mexico... DC-3 airliner crashes in Florida swamp...
Coelophysis dinosaurs found in New Mexico... DC-3 airliner crashes in Florida swamp...
Item # 722704
July 14, 1947
THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 14, 1947
* Coelophysis dinosaurs skeletons discoveries
* Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
* DC-3 crashes in Florida swamp
The top of the front page a has two column heading: "Museum Finds Dinosaurs Of 200 Million Years Ago" with subhead. (see images)
The front page also reports the DC-3 airliner which crashed into a swamp near Melbourne, Florida: "21 Killed, 15 Hurt In Crash Of A DC-3 In Florida Swamp". Page 2 includes a large related photo.
Complete in 36 pages, rag edition in great condition.
AI notes: In 1947, a major dinosaur discovery at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, brought the site to international scientific prominence when Edwin H. Colbert, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History, led an expedition that uncovered a vast bone bed of the early theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri. Although the site had first been noticed in 1947 by local ranchers and students working under University of New Mexico paleontologist George Whitaker, Colbert’s excavation revealed hundreds of remarkably well-preserved skeletons dating to the Late Triassic period, about 210 million years ago. The extraordinary concentration of fossils—many preserved in articulation—suggested a catastrophic mass-death event, possibly a flash flood, and provided rare insight into early dinosaur anatomy, growth stages, and behavior. The Ghost Ranch quarry became one of the most important Triassic fossil sites in the world, firmly establishing Coelophysis as one of the best-known early dinosaurs and making Ghost Ranch a cornerstone of North American paleontology.
Category: The 20th Century
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