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The museum provides information about the geological history of the Aurora area, which is known as a center for fossil hunting (especially due to the phosphate mine). [4] The museum was founded in 1976 and opened in 1978 as a collaboration between the town of Aurora, local mines, East Carolina University, and other interested parties. Visitors ...
A C. megalodon tooth excavated from Aurora. Aurora is the home of the Aurora Fossil Museum, which houses specimens collected from the local PCS Phosphate Mine. The museum's collection includes a wide variety of marine fossils from the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene eras. It also houses other specimens and a gem and mineral display.
Author Rufus Johnson has described one Neogene marl pit near Aurora in Beaufort County as the most famous fossil site in the entire state. This single fossils site preserves a Neogene fauna that included coral, sand dollars , sea shells, sea urchins , fish remains, seals , sharks with huge teeth, and fossils from whales .
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin's Stegosaurus fossil will be displayed at the American Museum of Natural History. Griffin purchased the fossil — dubbed Apex — for $44.6 million in July. The fossil is ...
Aurora Fossil Museum; B. Bath Historic District (Bath, North Carolina) Bonner House (Bath, North Carolina) P. Palmer-Marsh House; Pantego Academy Historical Museum
Fossil Fair costs $18 per person for entry at the door while advance tickets are $15 for adults, $14 for children, and $11 for members. Tickets can be purchased in advance at schielemuseum.org .
The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long ...
Aurora Fossil Museum; B. Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park; Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science; G. Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station; H.