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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]
Almost a decade later, on June 13, 1991, Governor James Florio signed a bill declaring Hadrosaurus foulkii to be the state dinosaur of New Jersey. [ 28 ] In November 2014 a large cache of late Cretaceous fossils was discovered in a quarry in Mantua Township, and suspected to be a relic of the event that caused the Extinction of the dinosaurs .
This list of the prehistoric life of New Jersey contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of New Jersey. Precambrian [ edit ]
New Jersey was ranked 13th among states where the most fossils have been found. Here are some fun facts about our state's dinosaur history. Some dino-mite facts about New Jersey's dinosaur history
Dryptosaurus (/ ˌ d r ɪ p t oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / DRIP-toh-SOR-əs) is a genus of eutyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived on the island continent of Appalachia approximately 67-66 million years ago during the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., with opening remarks at 8:45 a.m. Surfers Healing begins at 9 a.m. Organizers say families will be coming from all over New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland ...
The Mantua Police Department will be collecting toys and cash donations during its fill-a-cruiser event this Sunday.
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.