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The center opened in July 2011 and is in Orange County, California. [1] The Cooper Center was named to commemorate Dr. John D. Cooper, professor emeritus of geological science at Cal State Fullerton, who campaigned for the conservation of the Orange County Collection, and died in 2007. [2] [3]
Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp. ISBN 9780520233157. Mayor, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier ...
A limited number of fossils from the collection is on display in the VLSB. [3] Although located on the Berkeley campus, the museum is the primary locality for storing fossils collected statewide. The original fossils, around which the current collection has grown, were those gathered as part of the California Geological Survey from 1860 to 1867.
People first uncovered fossils around San Pedro High School in 1936. They were ancient shells belonging to snails and other mollusks from tens of thousands of years ago.
The Western Science Center (WSC), formerly the Western Center for Archaeology & Paleontology, [1] is a museum located near Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California.The WSC is home to a large collection of Native American artifacts and Ice Age fossils that were unearthed at Diamond Valley Lake, including "Max", the largest mastodon found in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian ...
Fossil collecting – Collecting fossils to study, collect or sell; Fossil park; Jurassic Coast – World Heritage Site on the coast of southern England; Lagerstätte – Sedimentary deposit with well-preserved extraordinary fossils; Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units; List of fossil parks around the world; List of fossil parks in India
Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...
This list of the prehistoric life of California contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of California. Precambrian [ edit ]