Bollinger County's fossils in spotlight

Monday, September 23, 2002

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The Chronister Dinosaur Site near Glenallen, Mo., was discovered in 1942 when the Chronister family found bones while digging a well. Some of the bones discovered are in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Some now are in the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History.

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