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A 160-Million-Year-Old Camarasaurus

The Bones in Styx, Stones, n' Bones. A dinosaur ischium from the Morrison Formation, fifty inches of deep time.

A 160-Million-Year-Old Camarasaurus
Origin
Morrison Formation, Colorado
Weight
50 inches long
Age
160 million years
Status
In the shop

People ask about the name. Styx for the water, Stones for the crystals and minerals, and Bones for pieces like this one.

This is a Camarasaurus ischium, part of the hip, out of the Morrison Formation in Colorado. It is about a hundred and sixty million years old and just over fifty inches long. Sit with that number for a second. This animal moved through the late Jurassic, and the bone outlasted everything that came after it.

We love fossils for the same reason we love the giant crystals. They are a record of time and pressure and luck, and every one of them traveled a long way to end up on a shelf in a small shop on the Oregon coast. Come see it in person. Photos do not do the scale justice.

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