what is the state symbols of colorado?
Painted turtle Stegosaurus Nil sine numine Aquilegia saximontana Greenback cutthroat trout Yule Marble Lark Bunting Picea pungens
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 The Rocky Mountain elk is the official state animal for Utah . An image of an elk and a moose appear on the state seal and flag of Michigan . The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ( B.P.O.E. ) chose the elk as its namesake because a number of its attributes seemed appropriate for cultivation by members of the fraternity . A representation of the majestic head of the male , with its spreading antlers , was adopted as the first badge of the Order ; and is still the most conspicuous element of its copyrighted fraternal emblem . A prized possession of many members of the B.P.O.E. are jewel encrusted , gold mounted elk teeth – which are actually ivory . 

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 One of the most recognizable of all dinosaurs , Stegosaurus has been depicted on film , in cartoons and comics , as children 's toys , and was even declared the State Dinosaur of Colorado in 1982 . Due to the fragmentary nature of most early Stegosaurus fossil finds , it took many years before reasonably accurate restorations of these animals could be produced . The earliest popular image of Stegosaurus was an engraving produced by A. Tobin for the November 1884 issue of Scientific American , which included the dinosaur amid a speculative Morrison age landscape . Tobin restored the Stegosaurus as bipedal and long @-@ necked , with the plates arranged along the tail and the back covered in spikes . This covering of spikes might have been based on a misinterpretation of the teeth , which Marsh had noted were oddly shaped , cylindrical , and found scattered , such that he thought they might turn out to be small dermal spines . 

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 Depictions of the statue have been used by many regional institutions . Between 1986 and 2000 , New York State issued license plates featuring the statue . The Women 's National Basketball Association 's New York Liberty use both the statue 's name and its image in their logo , in which the torch 's flame doubles as a basketball . The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League depicted the statue 's head on their third jersey , beginning in 1997 . The National Collegiate Athletic Association 's 1996 Men 's Basketball Final Four , played at New Jersey 's Meadowlands Sports Complex , featured the statue in its logo . The Libertarian Party of the United States uses the statue in its emblem . 

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 Some of South Dakota 's official state symbols include : 
