Dinosaur park and museum coming to fossil-rich spot in New Jersey

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An event that was 66 million years in the making took place over the weekend near New Jersey’s Rowan University.

The Gloucester County school broke ground on a $73 million dinosaur fossil park museum on the site of a prehistoric treasure trove of relics just a few miles from its campus in Glassboro.

The 44,000-square-foot facility in Mantua Township will perch above a former marl quarry where 66-million-year-old marine and terrestrial fossils have been found.

Dinosaur park and museum coming to fossil-rich spot in N.J.

 

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New Jersey is a Great Paleontology State

It’s Rutgers Week here at Off Tackle Empire. That also means that, spiritually, it is New Jersey Week. So what better way for me to break my long writing hiatus than to give you a random article on why New Jersey is a great paleontology state and one of the most historically important places to the field? None. There is in fact no better way. So hold onto your butts, I’m about to make you appreciate New Jersey from a perspective that very few do.

The year was 1838

John Estaugh Hopkins a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey found some bones in a marl pit that was dated to the Campanian (Late Cretaceous ~80 million years ago) Woodbury Formation. He put them on display in his home and 20 years later in 1858 a man named William Parker Foulke became interested in these bones and would go on to recover the remainder of the bones in the very same marl pit. He reached out to Paleontologist Joseph Leidy of Philadelphia who would go on to formally describe the skeletal elements and named it Hadrosaurus foulkii in honor of Foulke. Hadrosaurus mean’s “bulky” or “big lizard”, but this also weirdly fits having been found in Haddonfield. So Foulke’s Big Lizard was discovered in what is now a National Historic Landmark, the Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site, and Hadrosaurus would become the first mounted dinosaur skeleton ever, with reconstructed bones, and was the first dinosaur known from North America beyond a few isolated teeth. New Jersey. The Birthplace of College Football and North American Dinosaur Paleontology. Hadrosaurus is New Jersey’s state dinosaur and New Jersey was the first state to formally have one.

 

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Here is another relevant article.

New Jersey is a Great Paleontology State

It’s Rutgers Week here at Off Tackle Empire. That also means that, spiritually, it is New Jersey Week. So what better way for me to break my long writing hiatus than to give you a random article on why New Jersey is a great paleontology state and one of the most historically important places to the field? None. There is in fact no better way. So hold onto your butts, I’m about to make you appreciate New Jersey from a perspective that very few do.

The year was 1838

John Estaugh Hopkins a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey found some bones in a marl pit that was dated to the Campanian (Late Cretaceous ~80 million years ago) Woodbury Formation. He put them on display in his home and 20 years later in 1858 a man named William Parker Foulke became interested in these bones and would go on to recover the remainder of the bones in the very same marl pit. He reached out to Paleontologist Joseph Leidy of Philadelphia who would go on to formally describe the skeletal elements and named it Hadrosaurus foulkii in honor of Foulke. Hadrosaurus mean’s “bulky” or “big lizard”, but this also weirdly fits having been found in Haddonfield. So Foulke’s Big Lizard was discovered in what is now a National Historic Landmark, the Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site, and Hadrosaurus would become the first mounted dinosaur skeleton ever, with reconstructed bones, and was the first dinosaur known from North America beyond a few isolated teeth. New Jersey. The Birthplace of College Football and North American Dinosaur Paleontology. Hadrosaurus is New Jersey’s state dinosaur and New Jersey was the first state to formally have one.

I forgot to share the link, here it is; New Jersey is a Great Paleontology State - Off Tackle Empire