List of fossil parks
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South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
West Coast Fossil ParkWest coast fossil park
The West Coast Fossil Park is a fossil park near Langebaanweg, Western Cape, South Africa, approximately 150 km north of Cape Town. The fossil sites of Langebaanweg have exceptionally well-preserved remains of fossil fauna that date to circa 5.2 million years ago...
, Langebaanweg
Langebaanweg
Langebaanweg is a town on the southwest coast of South Africa, in Western Cape Province.It is the location of the air force base AFB Langebaanweg l....
, Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
- http://www.fossilpark.org.za
India
There are two geological parks maintained by the Geological Survey of IndiaGeological Survey of India
Geological Survey of India , established in 1851 is a government organization in India which is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines of Union Government of India for conducting geological surveys and studies. It is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and the second oldest...
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- Shivalik Fossil ParkShivalik Fossil ParkShivalik Fossil Park is a fossil park situated at Saketi, India, 14 km from Nahan, the district headquarters of Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh....
, Saketi, H.P. - Mandla Plant Fossils National ParkMandla Plant Fossils National ParkNational fossils park is situated in Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh in India. This national park has plants in fossil form that existed in India anywhere between 40 million and 150 million years ago spread over seven villages of Mandla District...
South Australia
- Ediacara Reserve; see also Ediacara HillsEdiacara HillsEdiacara Hills are a range of low hills in the northern part of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, around 650 km north of Adelaide. The area has many old copper and silver mines from mining activity in the late 19th century...
- Lake CallabonnaLake CallabonnaLake Callabonna is a dry salt lake with little to no vegetation in northeastern South Australia, approximately southwest of the junction of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales at Cameron Corner. It is an important site for late Pleistocene fossils...
Reserve - Naracoorte Caves National ParkNaracoorte Caves National ParkNaracoorte Caves is a national park near Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia . It was officially recognised in 1994 for its extensive fossil record when the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List, along with Riversleigh...
- Maslin Bay - Aldinga Bay Geological Site
- Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site
CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
Dinosaur Provincial ParkDinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two and a half hours drive southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada or , about a half hour drive, northeast of Brooks....
, Alberta
http://www.tpr.alberta.ca/parks/dinosaur/index.aspx
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park
Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 ha of the Bulkley River Valley, on the east side of Driftwood Creek, a tributary of the Bulkley River, 10 km northeast of the town of Smithers. The park is accessible from...
, British Columbia
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/driftwood_cyn/
Yoho National Park
Yoho National Park
Yoho National Park is located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains along the western slope of the Continental Divide in southeastern British Columbia. Yoho NP is bordered by Kootenay National Park on the southern side and Banff National Park on the eastern side...
(Burgess Shale
Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils...
) UNESCO site, British Columbia
http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/bc/yoho/index.aspx
http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/
Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia
http://jogginsfossilcliffs.net/
Parc national de Miguasha
Miguasha National Park
Miguasha National Park is a protected area near Carleton-sur-Mer on the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec in Canada. Created in 1985 by the Government of Quebec, Miguasha was designated a World Heritage Site in 1999 in recognition of its wealth of fossils, which display a crucial time during the evolution...
UNESCO site, Quebec
http://www.sepaq.com/pq/mig/index.dot?language_id=1
Colorado
Dinosaur National MonumentDinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is a National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains 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...
,in Northwest Colorado and North-East Utah.
http://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
http://www.nps.gov/flfo/
Connecticut
Rocky Hill Dinosaur State ParkLocated in Central CT 15 minutes south of Hartford on I-91
West St exit
Florida
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State ParkIslamorada, Florida 33036
http://www.floridastateparks.org/windleykey/
Nebraska
Agate Fossil Beds National Monumenthttp://www.nps.gov/agfo
Ashfall State Historical Park
http://ashfall.unl.edu/
Ohio
Trammel Fossil Parkhttp://www.sharonville.org/fossilpark.aspx
Sylvania, Ohio
http://www.olanderpk.com/
South Dakota
FOSSIL CYCAD NATIONAL MONUMENThttp://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/paleontology/pub/grd3_3/focy1.htm (No longer exists)
Mammoth Site
http://www.mammothsite.com/
Utah
Dinosaur National MonumentDinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is a National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains 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...
Escalante State Park
http://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/escalante/
Dinosaur National Monument
http://www.nps.gov/dino/
Wyoming
Fossil Butte National Monumenthttp://www.nps.gov/fobu
Yellowstone National Park
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/paleontology/surveys/yell_survey/fossi.htm
Fictional Fossil Parks
- Jurassic ParkJurassic Park (franchise)The Jurassic Park franchise is a series of books, films, comics, and videos centering on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs...
, (with genetically reconstructed dinosaurDinosaurDinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
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See also
- PaleontologyPaleontologyPaleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...
the study of fossils - FossilFossilFossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
s - Prehistoric life
- Timeline of geography, paleontologyTimeline of geography, paleontologyTimeline of paleontology* 1027 — The Persian naturalist, Avicenna, explains how the stoniness of fossils is caused in The Book of Healing, proposing the theory of petrifying fluids ....
, biologyBiologyBiology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... - Important publications in paleontology
- Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy
- Fossil Parks
- Fossil Parks of IndiaFossil Parks of IndiaThe Geological Survey of India currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits.* Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh. The site is notable for its life-size models of the vertebrates that might have roamed the Sivalik Hills 1.5—2.5 million years ago.*...
- GeologyGeologyGeology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
- DinosaurDinosaurDinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s - List of zoos
- List of aquaria
- List of botanical gardens
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)