Rabbit Valley is a valley located in northwestern
Mesa County,
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
, United States. The site was discovered by a local Colorado couple in 1981 Rabbit Valley contains numerous prehistoric remains from the
Late Jurassic Period. Nearly 4,000 bones have been found here, including
Apatosaurus'',
Camarasaurus,
Diplodocus,'' a supersaurid, a
diplodocid.
[
] Rabbit Valley is accessed by
Interstate 70/
U.S. Route 6/
U.S. Route 50
U.S. Route 50 or U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway system, stretching from Interstate 80 (I-80) in West Sacramento, California, to Maryland Route 528 (MD 528) in Ocean City, Maryland, on the Atlantic ...
.
References
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* Colorado Parks and Wildlif
Rabbit Valley
Protected areas of Mesa County, Colorado
Valleys of Colorado
Bureau of Land Management areas in Colorado
Landforms of Mesa County, Colorado
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