Following is a list of
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
s where
fossils are preserved, known as fossil parks or fossil reserves, worldwide by country.
Africa
Egypt
Wadi Al-Hitan - Valley of The Whales, Fayyoum, Western Desert
South Africa
West Coast Fossil Park
The West Coast Fossil Park is a fossil park near Langebaanweg, Western Cape, South Africa, approximately north of Cape Town. The fossil sites of Langebaanweg have exceptionally well-preserved remains of fossil fauna that date to circa 5.2 millio ...
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Langebaanweg,
Western Cape
Tanzania
Asia
India
There are two geological parks maintained by the
Geological Survey of India:
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Shivalik Fossil Park, Saketi, H.P.
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Mandla Plant Fossils National Park
Japan
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Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum
The is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in 1 ...
houses a fossilized forest and human artifacts
Thailand
Australia
Australia
Victoria
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Dinosaur Dreaming
Dinosaur Dreaming is a paleontological site situated near Inverloch, Victoria, Australia. Remains of primitive mammals from the Cretaceous Age were first uncovered there in 1997 by researchers from Museum Victoria and the Monash University Science ...
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Dinosaur Cove
Queensland
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Riversleigh
South Australia
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Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve
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Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area
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The Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area is a group of fossil sites located in the Australian state of South Australia within the Tirari Desert in the north-eastern part of the state's Far North region. The group has a ...
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Maslin Bay -
Aldinga Bay Geological Site
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Naracoorte Caves National Park
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Nilpena Ediacara National Park
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Nilpena Ediacara National Park, comprising the former Ediacara Conservation Park and an additional , is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia about south west of the town of Leigh Creek in the state's F ...
* Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site, near
Woomera
North America
Canada
Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre Saskatchewan
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Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
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Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia
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Yoho National Park (
Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia
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Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia
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McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site
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Parc national de Miguasha UNESCO site, Quebec
United States
Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo County, Arizona, Navajo and Apache County, Arizona, Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about , encompassin ...
California
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La Brea Tar Pits
La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; ''brea'' in Spanish) has seeped up from the gro ...
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Petrified Forest, Calistoga CA
Colorado
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Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is an American 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 ...
, in Northwest Colorado and North-East Utah.
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Dinosaur Ridge
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Connecticut
Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum
Florida
Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park
Idaho
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
Indiana
Falls of the Ohio State Park
Iowa
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Fossil and Prairie Park
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserve ...
Fossilized leaves are one of many found here.
* Devonian Fossil Gorge at
Coralville Lake
Coralville Lake is an artificial lake in Johnson County, Iowa, United States, formed by the Coralville Dam, a dam built from 1949 to 1958 on the Iowa River upstream from the city of Coralville, Iowa.
History
After widespread flooding in the Unit ...
Maryland
Dinosaur Park
Massachusetts
Dinosaur Footprints
A fossil track or ichnite (Greek "''ιχνιον''" (''ichnion'') – a track, trace or footstep) is a fossilized footprint. This is a type of trace fossil. A fossil trackway is a sequence of fossil tracks left by a single organism. Over the year ...
Michigan
Rockport Quarry Rockport may refer to:
Locations Canada
*Rockport, New Brunswick
*Rockport, Ontario
United States
*Rockport, Arkansas
*Rockport, California
*Rockport, Illinois
*Rockport, Indiana
**Rockport Generating Station
*Rockport, Kentucky
*Rockport, Maine
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, an abandoned limestone quarry near Alpena open to collecting
Mississippi
Mississippi Petrified Forest
Nebraska
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
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Ashfall State Historical Park
Nevada
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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
New Jersey
Poricy Park
Poricy Park is a nature preserve and park in Middletown Township, New Jersey, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It is known for its Cretaceous period fossil shell beds along the Poricy Brook streambed, open to the public for limi ...
New Mexico
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Clayton Lake State Park
Clayton Lake State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, featuring a recreational reservoir and a fossil trackway of dinosaur footprints. It is located north of Clayton, New Mexico, Clayton, close to New Mexico's border with Colora ...
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Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
New York
Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve
Ohio
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Hueston Woods State Park
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Trammel Fossil Park
Trammel or Trammelsor Trammell may refer to:
Places
* Trammel, Virginia
* Trammels, Texas, United States
People with the name
* Allen Trammell (born 1942), American football player
* Joel Trammell (born 1965), American businessman
* Trammel ...
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Sharonville, Ohio
Oregon
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
South Dakota
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The Mammoth Site
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Fossil Cycad National Monument
Fossil Cycad National Monument was a national monument in the U.S. state of South Dakota beginning in 1922. The site contained hundreds of fossil cycads, one of the world's greatest concentrations. Because vandals stole or destroyed all of the vi ...
(No longer exists)
Texas
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Dinosaur Valley State Park
* Ladonia Fossil Park,
Ladonia, Texas
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Mineral Wells Fossil Park
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. ...
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Mineral Wells, Texas
Mineral Wells is a city in Palo Pinto and Parker Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 16,788 at the 2010 census (14,644 in Palo Pinto and 2144 in Parker). The city is named for mineral wells in the area, which were highly popu ...
Utah
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Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is an American 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 ...
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Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
Escalante Petrified Forest State Park (also known as Escalante State Park) is a state park of Utah, USA, located a half-mile (0.8 km) north of the town of Escalante. A visitor center was built in 1991, and features displays of plant and ma ...
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Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
Wyoming
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Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States. It centers on an assemblage of Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago) animal and ...
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Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints on public land near Shell, in Big Horn County, Wyoming.
They were discovered in 1997 by Erik P. Kvale, a research geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey.
The site ...
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Yellowstone National Park
South America and Central America
Argentina
Ischigualasto
Ischigualasto Provincial Park ( es, Parque Provincial Ischigualasto), also called ''Valle de la Luna'' ("Valley of the Moon" or "Moon Valley"), due to its moon like appearance, is a provincial protected area in the north-east of San Juan Provinc ...
is located in
San Juan province
Bolivia
Cal Orcko
Cal Orck’o is a fossil bed in Bolivia. It is located in a quarry approximately 4.4 km northwest of Sucre ( Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia) in the Altiplano/Cordillera Oriental, in the El Molino Formation ( Middle Maastrichtian).
The be ...
in
Sucre
Sucre () is the Capital city, capital of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the List of cities in Bolivia, 6th most populated city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . T ...
Brazil
Paleorrota Geopark is located in
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
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See also
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Paleontology the study of fossils
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Fossils
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Prehistoric life
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Timeline of geography, paleontology
Timeline of paleontology
Antiquity – 16th century
* 6th century B.C. — The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon argues that fossils of marine organisms show that dry land was once under water.
* 4th century B.C.&nb ...
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biology
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Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy
Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning that uses any kind of penetrating wave. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, atmospheric science, geophysics, oceanography, plasma physics, materials science, cosmochemistry, ast ...
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Fossil Parks
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
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Fossil Parks of India
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits.
* Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh is notable for its life-size models of the vertebrates that might have roamed the Siva ...
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Geology
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Dinosaurs
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List of zoos
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List of aquaria
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List of botanical gardens
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List of fossil sites ''(with link directory)''
References
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Lists of protected areas