WALK WITH DINOSAURS
See thousands of fossilized dinosaur footprints!
DINOSAURS DISCOVERED HERE!
Here at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, you’ll enter a 200 million-year-old ecosystem that was once home to dinosaurs, fishes, plants, and more. Besides the actual fossils, you won’t want to miss the five life-sized models of prehistoric animals and the working fossil preparation lab.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update as of 12/9/2020:
We are sorry to announce that we will be closed this coming Thursday, December 10 through Saturday, December 12. Please check back here or check our social media for updates. (Facebook) (Instagram)
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update as of 7/14/2020:
We have been open for nearly 2 months now! We are grateful to those who have visited, purchased something, or donated to the site.
With positive cases continuing to climb in our area, we are now requiring masks to be worn inside at all times and we are asking for an email or phone number to help the Utah Department of Health perform contact tracing. Please be prepared with both when you visit!
Our hours are from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Thursday through Monday. Please, see our updated visitor protocols and procedures HERE.
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/Pagiophyllum/ branch with raindrop impressions. This specimen comes from the “Top Surface Tracksite” which the SGDS museum is now constructed over. /Pagiophyllum/ is an extinct conifer tree (related to modern-day pine and fir trees). This specimen was found by Andrew Milner on August 19, 2004 and is about 200 million years old. #fossilfriday
This is a natural cast, right /Kayentapus/ track collected during Riverside Drive road expansion, near the Dinosaur Discovery Site, in 2005. This track comes from the lower part of the Moenave Formation and is about 200 million years old. This track type differs from the largest tracks from the Dinosaur Discovery Site (/Eubrontes/) by having narrower toes and a wider angle between toes. Some paleontologists do not consider these to be different types of tracks. #fossilfriday
{FEBRUARY 26TH AND 27TH} ✨✨✨ Come visit the museum on our birthday weekend! All kids enter free! (with a paying adult) We will also be hosting a fun fossil identification activity included with admission. We are looking forward to it!
SGDS 1790 - /Notogoneus osculus/ fish skeleton. This is an extinct species of sucker fish from the Eocene Epoch (~54 million years old) Green River Formation of southwestern Wyoming. Although not from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, this specimen is held within the museum collections, and was donated on December 5, 2018 by Bob Kronner.
Good Afternoon Friends! We just sent out our February newsletter. We have some fun plans for this month as we celebrate the site's 21st anniversary! Be sure to check it out! You can view it here 👇or in your email inbox if you have subscribed to our newsletter.
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Our Education Team will be hosting a fun fossil identification activity on Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th. Come join us and learn how paleontologists identify fossils and put yourself to the test!