List of fossil parks explained

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

See main article: Fossil Parks of 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

• Dinosaur Dreaming
• Dinosaur Cove

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

See main article: List of AZA member zoos and aquariums.

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

Falls of the Ohio State Park

Iowa

• Fossil and Prairie Park^[3]

Fossilized leaves are one of many found here.

• Devonian Fossil Gorge at Coralville Lake

Maryland

Dinosaur Park

Massachusetts

Dinosaur Footprints

Michigan

Rockport Quarry, an abandoned limestone quarry near Alpena open to collecting

Mississippi

Mississippi Petrified Forest

Nebraska

• Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
• Ashfall State Historical Park

Nevada

• Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

New Jersey

Poricy Park

New Mexico

• Clayton Lake State Park
• Prehistoric Trackways National Monument

New York

Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Reserve

Ohio

• Hueston Woods State Park
• Trammel Fossil Park, Sharonville, Ohio^[4]

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 Fossil Park, Mineral Wells, Texas^[6]

Utah

• Dinosaur National Monument
• Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
• Prehistoric Trackways National Monument

Wyoming

• Fossil Butte National Monument
• Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
• Yellowstone National Park

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
• Prehistoric life
• Timeline of geography, paleontology, biology
• Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy
• Fossil Parks of India
• List of fossil sites

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maslin Bay - Aldinga Bay Geological Site, Esplanade, Port Willunga, SA, Au. Commonwealth of Australia. 16 September 2015.
2. Web site: Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site, Woomera, SA, Australia. Commonwealth of Australia. 16 September 2015.
3. Web site: Home . fossilcenter.com.
4. Web site: Trammel Fossil Park.
5. Web site: Ladonia Fossil Park . 2015-01-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216094724/http://ladoniachamber.com/events/ladonia-fossil-park/ . 2015-02-16 . dead .
6. Web site: Home . mineralwellsfossilpark.com.