It was here that we found the type of _Diplodocus_.
The hind leg, pelvis and much of the tail of this specimen lay in very orderly arrangement in the sandstone near the edge of the quarry, but the bones were broken into innumerable pieces.

After consultation we decided that they were too much broken to be worth saving--and so most of them went over into the dump.

Sacrilege, doubtless, the modern collector will say, but we did not know much about the modern methods of collecting in those days, and moreover we were in too much of a hurry to get the new discoveries to Yale College to take much pains with them.

I did observe that the caudal vertebrae had very peculiar chevrons, unlike others that I had seen, and so I attempted to save some samples of them by pasting them up with thick layers of paper.
Had we only known of plaster-of-paris and burlap the whole specimen might easily have been saved.

Later, when I reached New Haven, I took off the paper and called Professor Marsh's attention to the strange chevrons.