Dryptosaurus

A plesiosaur threatens the dinosaur Dryptosaurus "Laelaps" in the foreground, while a mosasaur grins in the background.

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A plesiosaur threatens the dinosaur Dryptosaurus "Laelaps" in the foreground, while a mosasaur grins in the background.

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Called "Leaping Laelaps," it was painted in 1897 for the American Museum of Natural History, with the cooperation of Edward Drinker Cope, the scientist who discovered both Hadrosaurus and Dryptosaurus.

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After all, he says, Hadro-saurus was discovered first - in 1858, seven years before Dryptosaurus was found nearby.

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Dryptosaurus was 6.5 m (20 feet) long, 1.8 m (6 feet) high at the hips, and weighed about

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His home is dripping in Dryptosaurus memorabilia - even the license plate on Vecchiarelli's Jeep reads "DRYPT." - but the Boonton resident admits that it was another Jerseyan, famed paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, who pushed him into all this.

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Dryptosaurus was 6.5 m (20 feet) long, 1.8 m (6 feet) high at the hips, and weighed about

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Dinosaurs did roam the Garden State, though, and two of them, Hadrosaurus foulkii and Dryptosaurus, made paleontological history in the 19th century, when their remains - the most extensive collection of dinosaur bones found in North America until that time - were dug up in Haddonfield and Barnsboro, respectively.

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Called "Leaping Laelaps," it was painted in 1897 for the American Museum of Natural History, with the cooperation of Edward Drinker Cope, the scientist who discovered both Hadrosaurus and Dryptosaurus.

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Vecchiarelli's goals include a life-size reconstruction of Dryptosaurus built and displayed in the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.

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