Haddonfield HADROSAURUS FOULKII Statue and Marl Pit (Axis Video)
The marl pit is located at the end of Maple Avenue in Haddonfield New Jersey, this is the location that the Hadrosaurus was found in. The site was designated as a National Historic Landmark back in 1994. There is a bench adjacent to the location that people have placed toy dinosaurs on.
The dinosaur bones were discovered in 1858 and was a benchmark, as it was the most complete skeleton found at that time. Also in 1868 it became the first skeleton to be mounted in a museum. Hadrosaurus is a valid genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period.
35 bones were found during the dig and about 20 bones were found previously that were given away as souvenirs and door stops. The bones currently reside at the Academy of Natural Sciences after the mount was dismantled in the 1930's.
The HADROSAURUS FOULKII, was in the late Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago and was discovered on the John E. Hopkins Farm located in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The Hadrosaurus was a plant eater, which was 20 to 30 feet long and weighed about 3 to 4 tons.
In downtown Haddonfield, there is a statue of the Hadrosaurus, displayed just off the main road. This sculpture of Haddy is the main feature in Haddonfield located on Hadrosaurus Lane. Leidy and Foulke discovered the bones of the Hadrosaurus in a marl pit in Haddonfield, New Jersey. This statue commemorates the finding.
Marl is rich mud composed of roughly one-third clay and two-thirds calcium carbonate. This mixture of minerals works as a potent fertilizer, which made marl a valuable commodity for 19th Century farmers, but the substance also works to preserve bones and fossils.
Western New Jersey possesses an abundance of green marl that gave name to communities such as Marlton and Marlboro, where the extraction of marl sustained the local economy. Local farmers who dug into the marl pits for fertilizer sifted out bones and other fossils, such as the bones that drew William Parker Foulke to uncover the skeleton of the Hadrosaurus foulkii.
Dozens of important findings were unearthed in the decades following Foulke’s expedition and New Jersey’s marl pits yielded a wealth of prehistoric specimens. In relation to the history of dinosaur paleontology, this Haddonfield Hadrosaurus site is ground zero; the spot where our collective fascination with dinosaurs began.
Visitors can still climb down crude paths into the 30-foot, vine-entangled chasm to stand in an almost primordial quiet at the actual marl pit where the imagination of all mankind was exploded outward to embrace the stunning fact that our planet was once ruled by fantastically large, bizarrely shaped reptilian creatures.
For more info:
Haddonfield's Dinosaur
Information Center
2 King's Court
Haddonfield, NJ
08033
http://www.hadrosaurus.com/
NARRATOR:
Eileen
"Novus Initium"
"Chronos"
Alexander Nakarada
"City Run"
"Almost In F"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.
The dinosaur bones were discovered in 1858 and was a benchmark, as it was the most complete skeleton found at that time. Also in 1868 it became the first skeleton to be mounted in a museum. Hadrosaurus is a valid genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period.
35 bones were found during the dig and about 20 bones were found previously that were given away as souvenirs and door stops. The bones currently reside at the Academy of Natural Sciences after the mount was dismantled in the 1930's.
The HADROSAURUS FOULKII, was in the late Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago and was discovered on the John E. Hopkins Farm located in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The Hadrosaurus was a plant eater, which was 20 to 30 feet long and weighed about 3 to 4 tons.
In downtown Haddonfield, there is a statue of the Hadrosaurus, displayed just off the main road. This sculpture of Haddy is the main feature in Haddonfield located on Hadrosaurus Lane. Leidy and Foulke discovered the bones of the Hadrosaurus in a marl pit in Haddonfield, New Jersey. This statue commemorates the finding.
Marl is rich mud composed of roughly one-third clay and two-thirds calcium carbonate. This mixture of minerals works as a potent fertilizer, which made marl a valuable commodity for 19th Century farmers, but the substance also works to preserve bones and fossils.
Western New Jersey possesses an abundance of green marl that gave name to communities such as Marlton and Marlboro, where the extraction of marl sustained the local economy. Local farmers who dug into the marl pits for fertilizer sifted out bones and other fossils, such as the bones that drew William Parker Foulke to uncover the skeleton of the Hadrosaurus foulkii.
Dozens of important findings were unearthed in the decades following Foulke’s expedition and New Jersey’s marl pits yielded a wealth of prehistoric specimens. In relation to the history of dinosaur paleontology, this Haddonfield Hadrosaurus site is ground zero; the spot where our collective fascination with dinosaurs began.
Visitors can still climb down crude paths into the 30-foot, vine-entangled chasm to stand in an almost primordial quiet at the actual marl pit where the imagination of all mankind was exploded outward to embrace the stunning fact that our planet was once ruled by fantastically large, bizarrely shaped reptilian creatures.
For more info:
Haddonfield's Dinosaur
Information Center
2 King's Court
Haddonfield, NJ
08033
http://www.hadrosaurus.com/
NARRATOR:
Eileen
"Novus Initium"
"Chronos"
Alexander Nakarada
"City Run"
"Almost In F"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.
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