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Utah designated allosaurus as the official state fossil in 1988. Living 145 to 150 million years ago in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Oklahoma, allosaurus was the most common large carnivore of the Late Jurassic period in North America (a predecessor of the larger Tyrannosaurus of the Cretaceous).
"Big Al" Allosaurus fossil from the University of Wyoming Geological Museum- photo © Mark Ryan on Flickr - noncommercial use permitted with attribution / no derivative works
Many Allosaurus fossils have been found in the Rocky Mountain west. Weighing 1.5 - 2 tons as an adult and measuring 30 - 40 feet long, allosaurus possibly hunted in packs to bring down large prey.
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