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The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey.Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858.
Portrait of William Parker Foulke. William Parker Foulke (1816–1865) discovered the first full dinosaur skeleton in North America (Hadrosaurus foulkii, [1] which means "Foulke's big lizard") in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858.
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' mounted Hadrosaurus, the first mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world Photograph of the site where the fossils were found (2010). In 1838, John Estaugh Hopkins was digging in a marl pit (on a small tributary of the Cooper River in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and part of the Campanian-age Woodbury Formation) when he uncovered large bones.
The turtle Bothremys also lived in New Jersey during the Cretaceous. [10] Other local marine vertebrates included plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. [7] Occasionally fossil footprints dating back to this age are found. Few plant fossils are known in New Jersey from this time. [7] Northern New Jersey, in contrast to the state's southern half, was dry land.
MANTUA, N.J. − Kenneth Lacovara's career in paleontology has taken him around the world: He's explored the Gobi Desert, led expeditions in Egypt and found massive dinosaur bones in Patagonia.
1858: Just a few miles away from the Fossil Park in Haddonfield, NJ, the first complete dinosaur skeleton (a Hadrosaurus) to ever be mounted and exhibited is discovered [11] 1866: Edward D. Cope discovers the tyrannosauroid, Dryptosaurus, [12] one mile away from the Fossil Park site in Ceres Park
Discovery connects to footprints found in 1997. As it happens, the new footprints aren't the first prehistoric discovery in the area. In 1997, previous limestone quarrying revealed more than 40 ...
Researchers excavated dinosaur shin bones and vertebrae at two fossil sites in Victoria – the upper Strzelecki Group dated to 121 million years ago and the Eumeralla Formation from about 113 ...