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The William L. Hutcheson Memorial Forest is a 500-acre (200 ha) natural preserve at 2150 Amwell Rd. about 3/4 of a mile east of East Millstone in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. It is known for its untouched stand of old growth forest. The Forest was declared a National Natural Landmark in December 1976. [1]
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 ]
This list of the Cenozoic life of New Jersey contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of New Jersey and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
A lot of that early research can be found on the pages of The Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey, first printed in 1958, and reprinted in 1991. Dinosaurs, reptiles, microbes and more: Check out NJ's ...
Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Fossilized trees dating back 390 million years are world’s oldest Skip ...
The turtle Bothremys also lived in New Jersey during the Cretaceous. [10] Other local marine vertebrates included plesiosaurs and mosasaurs. [7] Occasionally fossil footprints dating back to this age are found. Few plant fossils are known in New Jersey from this time. [7] Northern New Jersey, in contrast to the state's southern half, was dry land.
Researchers studying on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal recently uncovered an entire lost ancient mangrove forest over 22 million years old, thanks to the discovery of the fossilized ...
Hornerstown, New Jersey The Hornerstown Formation is a latest Cretaceous to early Paleocene -aged geologic formation in New Jersey . It preserves a variety of fossil remains, including those of dinosaurs, and contains direct evidence of the mass mortality that occurred at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary .