Originally published at: Does your state have an official state dinosaur? | Boing Boing
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Manitoba has an official fossil (Mosasaur) but surprisingly Alberta which is home to most of Canada’s fossilized dinosaurs doesn’t have an official fossil or official dinosaur.
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Dammit. Hit reply too soon.
Here’s ours. Just look at that magnificent bastard:
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Dawwww! Ours is a teeny tiny 50-foot-long brachiosaur:
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Once the kids get involved, stand back!
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Illinois may not have a state dino, but we do have a state fossil, the Tully Monster
It has the wonderful aspect that we don’t quite know what it is.
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We got one of the cool ones!
In fact, the Colorado Rockies mascot is Dinger the Dinosaur
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Okay, technically every state in the union has a state dinosaur.
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Everything’s bigger in Texas.
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Alaska: hold my beer.
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Suciasaurus rex under consideration in Washington, based on a femur found in the San Juans.
And no, your legislators better not let down a bunch of elementary students.
(We already have the Columbian Mammoth as state fossil…)
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And here I thought the New Jersey official state dinosaur was our NYC-centric public transit system.
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Virginia doesn’t have a state dinosaur. We do have a state fossil. Chesapecten jeffersonius. It’s a scallop. 
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New York has a six foot long sea scorpion relative as the state fossil but no state dinosaur.
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Steggy was always my favorite as a kid.
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New Mexico
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I’m British so I don’t have a state, but we do have an official state dinosaur.
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