List of fossil parks
Following is a list of protected areas 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, Langebaanweg, Western Cape
Tanzania[]
Asia[]
India[]
There are two geological parks maintained by the Geological Survey of India:
- Shivalik Fossil Park, Saketi, H.P.
- Mandla Plant Fossils National Park
Japan[]
- Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum houses a fossilized forest and human artifacts
Thailand[]
Australia[]
Australia[]
Victoria[]
Queensland[]
- Riversleigh
South Australia[]
- Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve
- Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area
- Maslin Bay - Aldinga Bay Geological Site[1]
- Naracoorte Caves National Park
- Nilpena Ediacara National Park
- Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site, near Woomera[2]
North America[]
Canada[]
- Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre, Saskatchewan
- Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
- Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia
- Yoho National Park (Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia
- McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site
- Parc national de Miguasha UNESCO site, Quebec
United States[]
Arizona[]
Petrified Forest National Park
California[]
- La Brea Tar Pits
- Petrified Forest, Calistoga CA
Colorado[]
- Dinosaur National Monument, in Northwest Colorado and North-East Utah.
- Dinosaur Ridge
- 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[]
Iowa[]
Fossilized leaves are one of many found here.
- Devonian Fossil Gorge at Coralville Lake
Maryland[]
Massachusetts[]
Dinosaur Footprints
Michigan[]
, an abandoned limestone quarry near Alpena open to collecting
Mississippi[]
Nebraska[]
Nevada[]
New Jersey[]
New Mexico[]
New York
Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve
Ohio[]
Oregon[]
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
South Dakota[]
- The Mammoth Site
- Fossil Cycad National Monument (No longer exists)
Texas[]
- Dinosaur Valley State Park
- Ladonia Fossil Park, Ladonia, Texas[5]
- , Mineral Wells, Texas[6]
Utah[]
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
- Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
Wyoming[]
South America and Central America[]
Argentina[]
Ischigualasto is located in San Juan province
Bolivia[]
Cal Orcko in Sucre
Brazil[]
Paleorrota Geopark is located in Rio Grande do Sul.
See also[]
- Paleontology the study of fossils
- Fossils
- Prehistoric life
- Timeline of geography, paleontology, biology
- Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy
- Fossil Parks
- Fossil Parks of India
- Geology
- Dinosaurs
- List of zoos
- List of aquaria
- List of botanical gardens
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
References[]
- ^ "Maslin Bay - Aldinga Bay Geological Site, Esplanade, Port Willunga, SA, Au". Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site, Woomera, SA, Australia". Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ http://www.fossilcenter.com/
- ^ "Trammel Fossil Park".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2015-01-25.
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