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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 ]
The Secaucus park closed on September 7, 2015 with record crowds and began its search of a new home. [11] Possible locations included Derby, Kansas [12] and West Milford, New Jersey. [13] In 2016, Field Station: Dinosaurs opened in its new location in Bergen County’s Overpeck County Park alongside Teaneck Creek. [14]
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]
The New Jersey State Museum offers guide digs and or there is the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University, which will soon have a museum. By law, amateurs can only bring a small trowel and sifter ...
Go: "Dinosaurs: Fossils Exposed," Saturday through Jan. 2, 2025, Monmouth Museum, Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, $14, $10 for seniors 65 and older, free for kids ...
This list of museums in New Jersey is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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
Riker Hill Fossil Site (also referred to as Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park) is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) paleontological site in Roseland in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, located at the south western side of the borough at the border between Roseland and Livingston.