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St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm “This is the most significant dinosaur tracksite in western North America.”
Dr. James Kirkland, Utah State Paleontologist The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, show evidence that this site was produced along the western edge of a large, Early Jurassic (age between 195-198 million years ago) freshwater lake named Lake Dixie. Other discoveries that make the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm unique include the largest and best preserved collection of dinosaur swim tracks, a rare sitting impression of a large meat-eating dinosaur, and the unusual association of tracks, traces and actual bones found in close proximity to each other. Please come and visit the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm for a unique experience, and travel back in time to walk along the shoreline of an Early Jurassic lake! “The [St. George] collection is going to be the most important in the world for the researchers working on early Jurassic footprints.”
Gerard Gierlinski, Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw, Poland Fishing Dinosaurs at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site 
Meat-eating dinosaurs fed on fish along the shores of an ancient lake near St. George, Utah, approximately 198 million years ago. The valuable fossil evidence was found in the vicinity of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm (SGDS) in southwestern Utah...Click here to read more For a complete article in PDF format click here. You're invited to: Seamless Summer Open House Get all the details here! (pdf) 
News at the SGDSShark-Eating Dino Fossil Found in Utah Click here to read more. |
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