California may adopt state dinosaur

[Sagebrush Steve]

A duck-bill dinosaur, Augustynolophus morrisi:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/04/07/california-may-adopt-state-dinosaur/

[DD1991]

Aletopelta is the only other non-avian dinosaur found in California. Again, it was found in marine sediments, so known individuals of both Augustynolophus and Aletopelta clearly washed out to sea from the Western Interior.  

[Virgilian]

Check out the following YouTube video somebody made in 2014 about dinosaur tracks in California. The individual travels to a remote, windy, Mojave Desert location to show, in situ, several dino tracks in the Jurassic Aztec Sandstone.

 

And with unbelievable timing--you can't make this stuff up--just as he's reaching for a miniature model of the kind of dinosaur he believes created the larger tracks--a wicked crack of thunder explodes across the Mojave (at about the 7:05 mark).