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The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey. Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858.
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.
13 cze 1991 · 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.
Invertebrates, plesiosaurs and turtles lived in its waters. Dinosaurs roamed the land. New Jersey has the most fossiliferous Late Cretaceous rocks of the Mid-Atlantic region. [1] Southern New Jersey remained a sea home to invertebrates and sharks into the Cenozoic era.
12 kwi 2019 · 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...
Hadrosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaurs that lived in New Jersey during the Late Cretaceous Period. It was the first dinosaur skeleton to be mounted and the official state dinosaur of New Jersey since 1991.
The official information site of the Haddonfield, N.J. Dinosaur Sculpture Committee
