Hell Creek Relics
Valley City, North Dakota
Biography
Bob the Triceratops
This specimen was excavated on private land in Bowman County, North Dakota in 2003. All of us at Hell Creek Relics have been making progress on Bob ever since and we're within a few months of completion. Bob is from the Cretaceous Period in the Hell Creek formation dated to sixty-five million years old. Bob's skull measures seven feet, two inches from the back of the frill to the tip of the rostrum. It is by far the largest skull we have ever seen. We believe this would be the largest triceratops skeleton out there at twenty-six feet. We have twenty-one out of twenty-four of the largest bones of its body so by bone mass we are well over ninety percent complete. Because it is typical to be missing some of the smaller bones the bone count is still extraordinary at seventy percent. His left femur is four inches longer than the right which is unusual and gives him some definite character.
Bones colored in red are original bones that we have
2010 - present
2010 - present
Bob's List of Bones
The following bone list is true and accurate to the best of my ability
for the triceritops known as "Bob".
Major Bones of the Body:
Rear Representation:
Right Femur Present
Left Femur Present
Right Tibia Present
Left Tibia Present
Right Fibula Present
Left Fibula Present
Right Illia Present
Left Illia Present
Right Pubis Present
Left Pubis Present
Right Ishia Present
Left Ishia Present
Sacrum: all 10 fused vertabrae Present
Front Representation:
Right Scapula Present
Left Scapula Present
Right Corioid Present
Left Coricoid Not Present
Right Humerus Present
Left Humerus Not Present
Right Radius Present
Left Radius Not Present
Right Ulna Present
Left Ulna Present
Neck block: all fused vertabrae Present
Skull
Right Brow Horn Present
Left Brow Horn Present
Nose Horn Present
Right Squamosal Present
Left Squamosal Present
Parietal Present
Right Maxilla Not Present
Left Maxilla Not Present
Right Jaw Present
Left Jaw Present