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Hadrosaurus. Hadrosaurus (/ ˌhædrəˈsɔːrəs /; lit. 'bulky lizard') is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now the Woodbury Formation in New Jersey about 78-80 Ma. The holotype specimen was found in fluvial marine sedimentation, meaning that the corpse of the ...
List of U.S. state dinosaurs. This is a list of U.S. state dinosaurs in the United States, including the District of Columbia. Many states also have dinosaurs as state fossils, or designate named avian dinosaurs (List of U.S. state birds), but this list only includes those that have been officially designated as "state dinosaurs".
New Jersey was recently ranked by USA TODAY as the 13th state in terms of most dinosaur discoveries. According to the article, 139 fossils have been found in New Jersey.
Paleontology in New Jersey
The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey. Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858. The dinosaur was later named Hadrosaurus foulkii by ...
Florida: There is no state fossil in Florida, though agatised coral, which is a fossil, is the state stone. Hawaii. Iowa: The crinoid was proposed in 2018. [2] Minnesota: The giant beaver was proposed in 2022. [3] New Hampshire: The American mastodon (Mammut americanum) was considered in 2015.
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. It is one of the major sites in United States where a large number of dinosaur ...
A decade-long campaign by a Haddon Township teacher led to the selection of Hadrosaurus foulkii as the official state fossil in June 1991. This example of the dinosaur was excavated in 1858 from a marl pit near Haddonfield as one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons to be reconstructed.