Jim Jensen

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James A. Jensen , usually called Jim Jensen (August 2nd 1918 - December 14th 1998), is a researcher of bone, more known under the name of dinosaur Jim . Born in a farm from the Utah, Jensen found its first fossils in the surrounding mountains. After rough studies, he became director of one research laboratory at the university of Brigham. But being a man of action, he preferred the excavations. Also it organized a network on the ground which informed it on the discoveries of dinosaurs and the places where to seek. One day, an employee of a sawmill, name of Eddie Jones, suggested to him excavating in a place called " Dry Mesa" (dry plate). Jensen discovered there the remainders of the largest dinosaur never hitherto discovered. It named it Supersaurus. In 1979, it discovered at the same place a dinosaur even larger, the Ultrasaurus. At the time of an other excavation, with two students, he discovered unusual bones. They made them analyze by Dale Russell, specialists in the dinosaurs of the end of the Cretaceous. This one concludes from it that it was a Tyrannosauridae, but without being able to say of which type.

Source

Magazine dinosaur, on the traces of the giants of prehistory , n°18.

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