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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 ...
The museum was created by an act of the New Mexico Legislature signed into law by Governor Bruce King in March, 1980. [2] Part of the motivation for the project was to provide a home for some of the numerous dinosaur fossils discovered in New Mexico rather than sending them to out-of-state institutions. [3]
The Ojo Alamo Formation is a geologic formation in New Mexico spanning the Mesozoic/Cenozoic boundary. Non-avian dinosaur fossils have controversially been identified in beds of this formation dating from after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, but these have been explained as either misidentification of the beds in question or as reworked fossils, fossils eroded from older beds and ...
Far North fossils: Natural History Museum director hunts dinosaur sign in Alaska. Tribune. Ollie Reed, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. August 11, 2024 at 7:01 AM. Aug. 11—You can't count on grizzly ...
The fossils were given to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in 1980, and it was designated the state fossil in 1981 under former-Gov. Bill Richardson. ... They found part of its ...
Paleontologists with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science plan to unveil the first baby Pentaceratops skull ever discovered.
Folsom site. Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC. The Folsom site was excavated in 1926 and found to ...
New Mexico's Fossil Record 1. Albuquerque: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 11. pp. 51–59 This page was last edited on 26 ...