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!
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/Plecia pealei/ is an extinct species of fly from the Eocene (~54 million years old) Fossil Butte Member, Green River Formation of Lincoln County, Wyoming. In SGDS collections and donated by Bob Kronner on December 5, 2018. #FossilFriday #sgds
We had such a fun and successful weekend celebrating the 21st anniversary weekend! ✨ We want to thank all of you and the local community for the continuous support. We couldn’t do it without your generosity! Stay up to date with the museum this year as we have some big plans!
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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