Project Dryptosaurus

FULL SKELETAL CAST WANTED:
This petition has been created to raise awareness of a very special dinosaur, Dryptosaurus aquilunguis.  The goal is to raise enough support and have the State of New Jersey lobby for a cast of this animal to be displayed in a museum!  Dryptosaurus was the world's second nearly complete dinosaur skeleton found after the famed Hadrosaurus foulkii that was also found in New Jersey.  However, while Hadrosaurus went on to be a state dinosaur here and represented properly, the Dryptosaurus was left in the dust.  Two firsts in one state, but Dryptosaurus has never been shown in a full cast. Not only was it the second found in New Jersey, but it was the first nearly complete meat eating dinosaur.  The Dryptosaurus, like Hadrosaurus foulkii, did not have many bones to go on, but this never stopped the Hadrosaurus from being displayed in a full cast.  There is enough material and research to warrant a Dryptosaurus skeleton cast.  Please help get this dinosaur displayed and brought more into the public eye in New Jersey.  Having a full cast of this dinosaur displayed in a local museum would educate the general public of New Jersey and give a sense of historic pride.

Background: 
Dryptosaurus (meaning "tearing lizard") was a genus of primitive tyrannosaur that lived in Eastern North America during at the end of the Late Cretaceous period. A famous painting of the genus by Charles R. Knight has made it one of the more widely-known dinosaurs. Dryptosaurus was 6.5 m long, 1.8 m high at the hips, and weighed about 1.2 tons. It had relatively long arms with three fingers. Each of these fingers was tipped by a talon-like 8 inch claw. These claws lend a meaning for the type species aquilunguis: eagle-clawed.
In 1866, an incomplete skeleton of Dryptosaurus was found in Barnsboro, New Jersey by workers in a quarry. Paleontologist E.D. Cope described the remains, naming the creature "Laelaps" ("storm wind", after the dog in Greek mythology that never failed to catch what it was hunting). "Laelaps" became one of the first dinosaurs described from North America. Subsequently, it was discovered that the name "Laelaps" had already been given to a species of insect, and Cope's lifelong rival O.C. Marsh changed the name in 1877 to Dryptosaurus.