Connecticut

=**By:Kimberly Cortes**=


 * =**Fossil Name:**=
 * //Eubrontes giganteus //
 * =**Description of organism:**=
 * It is a large three toed track that was found.There has not been any skeletal remains of the tracks found but the shape, size, and stride of the Eubrontes show that it's closest relative was the western genus Dilophosarus. That being that it was carnivorous and was big, had a little bump in the front by his eyes and mouth.


 * =Time it existed:=
 * The Eubrontes giganteus in connecticut in the Jurassic period over 200 million years ago.
 * =Preservation:=
 * The fossils are preserved because they turned the area in where the fossils were found into a state park that way they can be preserved and under the states protection.
 * =Who found it and why is it the state fossil:=
 * It was found in 1845 by a famous paleontologist named Edward Hitchcock. It became the state fossil because over 200 thousand tracks were discovered and a state park was made just for these tracks.
 * =Sources:=
 * Clos M. L.(2000) Magazine Fossil News. //The journal of avocational paleontology//. Retrieved March 25,2012, from: []


 * (2009) Official Website of the State Of Connecticut. //The state fossil: Eubrontes giganteus//. Retrieved March 25,2012, from: []