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The site was discovered in Spring 1942 by the Chronister family, possibly by Lulu Chronister, while they were digging a cistern within the site, which is located in Glen Allen, and the first fossils identified from the site were subsequently collected by Dan R. Stewart, [2] [3] later nicknamed "Dinosaur Dan." [4]
Edelman Fossil Park. The Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park, located in Mantua Township, New Jersey, consists of a 66-million-year-old 6-inch (150 mm) bone bed set into a 65-acre (26 ha) former marl quarry. [1] It is currently the only facility east of the Mississippi River that has an active open quarry for public Community Dig Days. [2]
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center offers many programs that allow visitors to dig up dinosaurs. Starting end of May (depending on the weather) the Dig for the Day program starts. This program is for families and individuals that are interested in learning more about paleontology. The Dig for the Day begins at 8am and finishes at 5pm.
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.The site has produced the largest and most diverse fauna of Late Cretaceous terrestrial animals from eastern North America, including the type specimens of the teiid lizard Prototeius stageri [1] and the batrachosauroidid salamander Parrisia neocesariensis. [2]
Tetrapod fossils have been found at it. [2] The site is one of the most abundant sources of trackways of its age. [3] Treptichnus and Arenicolites have been found at the site. [4] The 2016 book Footprints in Stone by Ronald J. Buta and David C. Kopaska-Merkel is about the site and its discovery. [1] In 2012 they wrote a guidebook for the site ...
Fossils have been used by Native Americans for evidence about the past, healing, personal protection, and trade. [4] Fossil sites were often chosen as the setting of vision quests. [5] Modern Comanche in Oklahoma still use dinosaur and mammoth bones for medicinal purposes. [4]
Museum of the Rockies is a museum in Bozeman, Montana.Originally affiliated with Montana State University in Bozeman, and now also, the Smithsonian Institution.The museum is largely known for its Paleontological collections as well as having the largest collection of North American Dinosaur fossils in the United States.