Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 January 1933 — Harvard Acquires the Earliest Dinosaur [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Harvard Acquires the Earliest Dinosaur

THIS mounted specimen of Plateosaurus, the earliest of dinosaurs, has just been acquired by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard university. Discovered in Germany, it is the first mounted specimen to be obtained by any museum in the United States. The Plateosaurus is estimated to be 160,000,000 years old, and is regarded as the “ancestor” of Tyrannosaurus and other giant dinosaurs of later periods.