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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 designated Hadrosaurus foulkii as the official state dinosaur in 1991. Hadrosaurus foulkii was a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed the forests and swamps along the bays of New Jersey's prehistoric seacoast.
Did you know that New Jersey has its own state fossil? Yes, you read that right! And even better, it’s a dinosaur! The Hadrosaurus foulkii was the first mostly complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in North America and marked a significant moment in the field of vertebrate paleontology in the late 1800s.
The official New Jersey state dinosaur is the Hadrosaurus foulkii, discovered by William Foulke in 1858. Foulke was visiting his friend John E. Hopkins in Haddonfield, New Jersey when Hopkins told him a story of strange bones found 20 years earlier in a marl pit behind his home.
A duckbilled dinosaur, Hadrosaurus foulkii roamed the forests and swamps along the bays of New Jersey’s ancient seacoast. Today its bones are found in ancient marine deposits with fossil seashells. It was about twenty-five feet long, probably weighed 7 to 8 tons and stood about 10 feet tall.
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.
Discover Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site in Haddonfield, New Jersey: The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.