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This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is a fossil site and museum at Johnson Farm in Saint George, Utah. [1] The museum preserves thousands of dinosaur footprints right at the original site of discovery. The site was discovered by accident on February 26, 2000 by Dr. Sheldon Johnson, a retired optometrist and resident of St. George.
Jurassic National Monument, at the site of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, well known for containing the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found, is a paleontological site located near Cleveland, Utah, in the San Rafael Swell, a part of the geological layers known as the Morrison Formation.
Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains [4] on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah, north of the town of Jensen, Utah.
The park is located east of U.S. Route 191 and west of Arches National Park, and covers 6,500 acres (26 km 2).The park contains the Dalton Wells Quarry, which have yielded remains of dinosaurs that have advanced understanding of paleontology, such as those of the giant dromaeosaur dinosaur Utahraptor ostrommaysi. [2]
Paleontology in Utah refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Utah. Utah has a rich fossil record spanning almost all of the geologic column. [1] During the Precambrian, the area of northeastern Utah now occupied by the Uinta Mountains was a shallow sea which was home to simple ...
The Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is a geological formation in southern Utah and northern Arizona, around the Lake Powell region, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Asaphiscus †Asaphiscus †Asaphiscus wheeleri †Athyris †Athyris lamellosa †Atrypa †Atrypa parva – or unidentified comparable form †Atrypid †Aulopora – tentative report †Aviculopecten †Aviculopecten girtyi †Aviculopecten kaibabensis – or unidentified comparable form †Aysheaia ...