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The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
Spencer G. Lucas. Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest.
Website. nmnaturalhistory.org. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is a natural history and science museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico near Old Town Albuquerque. The Museum was founded in 1986. [ 1 ] It operates as a public revenue facility of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Paleontology in the United States refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the United States. Paleontologists have found that at the start of the Paleozoic era, what is now "North" America was actually in the southern hemisphere. Marine life flourished in the country's many seas.
James I. Kirkland. James Ian Kirkland (born August 24, 1954) is an American paleontologist and geologist. He has worked with dinosaur remains from the southwest United States of America and Mexico [1][2][3] and has been responsible for discovering new and important genera. He named (or worked with others in naming) Animantarx, [4] Cedarpelta ...
Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society Museum, Fallbrook. Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County, Chowchilla. Gateway Science Museum, Chico. Gaumer's Jewelry & Museum, Red Bluff. Giant Forest Museum, Tulare County. Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, Gridley. Great Valley Museum of Natural History, Modesto.
Later, in 1953 University of New Mexico graduate student William Chenoweth found three important sites where dinosaurs were preserved in Morrison Formation rocks. He found a fragmentary Allosaurus, sauropods, and Stegosaurus. [86] A rare double-crested Dilophosaurus fossil was taken from the Navajo Reservation in 1942.
David Gillette. David Gillette is an American paleontologist best known for his discovery of the dinosaur Diplodocus hallorum in 1985, and more recently for his work studying Pleistocene megafauna such as glyptodonts. [1] [2] At the time of its discovery, Diplodocus hallorum was the longest dinosaur known. [3]