After 66 million years, a few more months doesn’t seem like too long a wait. That’s all the time that remains before the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park is scheduled to open this summer.
The 44,000-square-foot facility in Mantua will sit above a former marl quarry where Mesozoic Era marine and terrestrial fossils have been found.
Rowan University broke ground on a $73 million dinosaur fossil park and museum in 2021 on the site of a prehistoric treasure trove of relics just a few miles from its campus in Glassboro.
In New Jersey, fossilized remains of several late Cretaceous-era dinosaurs and reptiles have been found along a stretch of what used to be a shallow marine environment from Atlantic Highlands in Monmouth County, through Middlesex, Mercer, Burlington and Gloucester down to Salem County and present-day Delaware.