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  Hadrosaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hadrosaurus (Greek:sturdy lizard) is a hadrosaurid dinosaur genus.
Hadrosaurus foulkii is the only species in this genus, and as of 1991 is the official state dinosaur of New Jersey - a decision brought about by a local teacher, Joyce Berry.
Hadrosaurus lived on the coast of what is now New Jersey, U.S.A., in the late Cretaceous period - around 80 million years ago.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hadrosaurus   (434 words)

  
 The Academy of Natural Sciences - Museum - Joseph Leidy Online Exhibit - Hardosaurus foulkii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leidy's conclusion that Hadrosaurus was bipedal (standing on two feet) differed from that of the Richard Owen, the world's leading authority on dinosaurs.
Leidy noted that the teeth of Hadrosaurus were similar to those of the English Iguanodon and very similar to those of an American dinosaur (Trachodon mirabilis) he described in 1856.
The importance of Hadrosaurus was obvious to Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.
www.acnatsci.org /museum/leidy/paleo/hadrosaurus.html   (1247 words)

  
 Hadrosaurus foulkii
A duckbilled dinosaur, Hadrosaurus foulkii roamed the forests and swamps along the bays of New Jersey's ancient seacoast.
Hadrosaurus is a famous dinosaur because it was the most complete dinosaur skeleton unearthed anywhere in the world when it was discovered and scientifically documented in 1858.
Hadrosaurus foulkii became the official State dinosaur of New Jersey in 1991 after years of hard work by a teacher, Joyce Berry, and her fourth grade classes at Strawbridge Elementary School in Haddon Township.
www.state.nj.us /dep/njgs/enviroed/hadro.htm   (209 words)

  
 Hadrosaurus foulkii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The original specimen of Hadrosaurus was found in the Cretaceous marls of New Jersey in 1858.
Hadrosaurus was large for a hadrosaur and had a typical hadrosaur body.
Hadrosaurus is sometimes erroneously used as a generic name for hadrosaurs.
iggy67.sphosting.com /Hadrosaurus.htm   (178 words)

  
 Harosaurus foulkii: The Creature
A massive bronze sculpture of Hadrosaurus foulkii was installed in a new dinosaur garden in the center of Haddonfield on Oct. 18, 2003.
n life, Haddonfield's Hadrosaurus foulkii was as much as 10 feet tall at the hips and as long as 23 feet from its nose to the tip of its tail, according to paleontological authorities at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
It was a member of the dinosaur family that later became known as "duckbills" because of the bird-like nature of their jaws and skull structure.
www.levins.com /creature.shtml   (311 words)

  
 The Creature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hadrosaurus foulkii was up to 30 feet long from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail, but despite such bulk, the animal was not particularly ferocious.
Much the same as a large, placid cow, it was a plant eater that browsed leaves and branches along the marshes and shrub lands of the Atlantic coast.
After the flesh decayed, the bones absorbed minerals, surviving intact as a skeleton until about 70 million years later when a Haddonfield workman wrenched one from sticky marl, hefted it aloft into harsh sunlight and wondered aloud what it could possibly be.
www.millville.org /Workshops_f/Hoff_Dino_Hunt/whacked/creature.html   (221 words)

  
 New Jersey FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - What is the New Jersey State dinosaur?
By Chapter 161 of the Laws of 1991 (signed by Gov. James Florio on June 13, 1991), the Hadrosaurus (Hadrosaurus foulkii) is the New Jersey State dinosaur.
The Hadrosaurus was twenty-five feet in length, 10 feet tall, and weighed between 7 and 8 tons.
Hadrosaurus remains are found in a matrix of prehistoric marine deposits and fossilized seashells.
www.njfaq.com /njfaq14.shtml   (206 words)

  
 Haddonfield Dinosaur Construction Nears Competion
The sculpture is Giannotti's life-like depiction of Hadrosaurus foulkii as it finishes having a drink and prepares to move on across the Cretaceous landscape of 80 million years ago.
Hadrosaurus foulkii is a major landmark in the world history of dinosaur discovery.
He noted that the casting process used for Hadrosaurus foulkii employs rubber molds that can be reused for making as many as 30 duplicates of a bronze sculpture.
historiccamdencounty.com /ccnews71.shtml   (949 words)

  
 The dinosaur - Days of Yore, Bill Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hadrosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur, was one of the first major dinosaur discovered in North America according to a NJ Tercentenary Commission release.
A drawing Of Hadrosaurus and his enemy Laelaps was on the cover of the February 1970 issue of NJ Bell Tel-News that came with our telephone bills near that date.
Haddonfield - New Jersey’s Haddonfield dinosaur, a huge Hadrosaurus found on the Hopkins farm in an 1858 landmark discovery, is now receiving some overdue recognition by way of a magazine article, according to Douglas Rauschenberger, director of the Haddonfield Public Library.
dayhikes.org /Days_of_Yore/dinosaur.html   (921 words)

  
 Hangout - Cartoon History - The Hadro Story
Studies show that the first Hadrosaurus was an amphibious creature, living around the river's edge or around swamps.
Hadrosaurus Foulkii is Latin for "Foulke's bulky lizard." Bulky?
But I feel even luckier to be able to teach you about the first Hadrosaurus Foulkii dinosaur and to share with you all that I've learned about the world and New Jersey.
www.state.nj.us /hangout_nj/cartoonhistory_hadro.html   (656 words)

  
 Hadrosaurus.com -- Miniature sculpture
The sculpture is a miniature of the one that was installed in Lantern Lane on Oct. 18.
The original Lantern Lane Hadrosaurus is a one-ton bronze sculpture over eight-feet high and 15 feet in length.
It commemorates Hadrosaurus foulkii, the historic dinosaur fossil discovered in Haddonfield in 1858.
www.hadrosaurus.com /minihadro.shtml   (137 words)

  
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Hadrosaurus Run exposes greensand marl made largely of a greenish mineral glauconitic.
In 1838, While land owner William Estaugh Hopkins was digging out marls from a pit on his property to use as fertilizer, he recovered several large bones.
Leidy would name the new dinosaur Hadrosaurus Foulkii, and in 1868 the entire skeleton was assembled and put on display at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, where it is still available for public viewing.
www.jerseyfossils.com /haddonfield.htm   (189 words)

  
 New Jersey State Dinosaur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Its remains were first unearthed on a farm near Haddonfield in 1838, and with the display of its reconstructed skeleton at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences 30 years later, the science of North American paleontology was born.
Casts of the skeleton were soon exported to Europe, and museums around the world began to display their own dinosaur skeletons, delighting the public and giving them their first glimpse into the Age of Dinosaurs.
Because of its obvious historical importance, Hadrosaurus foulkii was designated the New Jersey state dinosaur on June 13, 1991.
www.statefossils.com /nj/nj.html   (254 words)

  
 A Dinosaur Comes to Downtown Haddonfield
Both a prehistoric creature and a singularly important scientific event, Hadrosaurus foulkii was the first nearly intact skeleton of a dinosaur ever discovered.
Haddonfield's Hadrosaurus foulkii was the first dinosaur skeleton ever mounted for public display.
It was virtually unknown to residents of this Camden County town until a local Eagle Scout generated newspaper publicity in 1984 by locating the 1858 excavation site and organizing an effort to mark it with a permanent plaque.
historiccamdencounty.com /ccnews39.shtml   (928 words)

  
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Hadrosaurus foulkii is recognized as the first articulated dinosaur collected, described and displayed in the New World.
This type specimen was assembled as a free-standing mount at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and represents the first time that a dinosaur had been portrayed standing upright in a bipedal stance.
Hadrosaurus foulkii a New Saurian from the Cretaceous of New Jersey.
www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/paleontology/pub/grd3_3/spar1.htm   (1637 words)

  
 Haddonfield Dinosaur Sculpture Dedicated
The ceremony in Lantern Lane was attended by borough, county and state officials as well as more than 2,000 dinosaur enthusiasts young and old who clogged the closed-off streets in the center of the town's business district.
The three at the center of the Hadrosaurus foulkii project were, left to right, Jan Twitchell, co-chair of HATCH; Mayor Tish Colombi; and Beverly Aldeghi, co-chair of HATCH.
In an 18th-century world still skeptical about talk of such fantastic prehistoric life, Hadrosaurus foulkii was the event that proved gigantic creatures with the anatomical features of lizards and birds had really existed.
historiccamdencounty.com /ccnews72.shtml   (945 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Magazine
The bones were officially presented to the academy in December, and Leidy used the occasion to unveil the results of his study of the specimen.
The skeleton was apparently exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and was subsequently donated to that city’s newly organized Field Museum of Natural History, where it remained until the museum moved to new quarters a decade later.
Dominating the entrance to the hall is a cast of the original partial Hadrosaurus skeleton, stripped of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s imaginative additions and displayed within a silhouette of the whole animal.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1988/2/1988_2_68.shtml   (3459 words)

  
 The Meaning of the Harosaurus foulkii Discovery
Photo at right shows the skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii erected for public display after its 1858 discovery.
Eight years after this reference book was published the first full skeletal form of a real dinosaur -- Hadrosaurus foulkii -- was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Taller than a house, it had the pelvic structure of a bird, the tail of a lizard and, incredibly, it walked upright on two legs, foraging with arm-like forelimbs.
www.levins.com /meaning.shtml   (673 words)

  
 DinoData Dinosaurs Hadrosaurus foulkii H006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dr Joseph Leidy, also of the Academy, was brought in to study the find recognized the fossils as belonging to a dinosaur like Iguanodon, and he named it Hadrosaurus foulkii, which meant "Foulke's bulky lizard." after the discoverer and benefactor.
Hadrosaurus foulkii also set another precedent by being the first dinosaur skeleton to be mounted.
The "real" Hadrosaurus foulkii is no longer mounted, the original bones are subject to pyrite disease due to exposure to air.
www.dinodata.net /Dd/Namelist/Tabh/H006.htm   (272 words)

  
 New Jersey Legislature - State Dinosaur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The New Jersey State Dinosaur - The Hadrosaurus Foulkii
During the Cretaceous Period, 70 to 100 million years ago, duck-billed dinosaurs roamed the swampy land that would later become New Jersey.
In 1991, the Hadrosaurus Foulkii became New Jersey's State dinosaur.
www.millville.org /workshops_F/Hoff_Dino_Hunt/whacked/dino.htm   (58 words)

  
 New Jersey Symbols, Dinosaur: Duckbilled Dinosaur - SHG Resources
The Hadrosaurus foulkii, the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton to be discovered virtually intact anywhere in the world, was unearthed in October, 1858, in a marl pit in Haddonfield, Camden County, by William Parker Foulke, a member of the prestigious Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
The Hadrosaurus foulkii has been recently reinstalled as one of the main features in a permanent exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
In order to pay recognition to the scientific importance of New Jersey's Hadrosaurus foulkii, it is fitting and appropriate to designate it as the State Dinosaur.
www.shgresources.com /nj/symbols/dinosaur   (619 words)

  
 Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America
Near the confluence of the Judith and Missouri Rivers (shown above) Hayden's party recovered a small collection of isolated teeth which were later described by the Philadelphia paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1856, in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
A short two years later, Leidy had the honor of describing the first reasonably complete dinosaur skeleton the world would know, Hadrosaurus foulkii.
For many years, Hadrosaurus foulkii was the only dinosaur on public display.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /diapsids/dinodiscoveriesna.html   (585 words)

  
 Hadrosaurus page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leidy also noted the difference between the short front legs and the powerful hindlegs, concluding that 'this great extinct herbivorous lizard may have been in the habit of browsing, sustaining itself, kangaroo-like, in an erect position'.
In 1868 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins made a restoration of the skeleton for an ill-fated display in New York's Central Park (along similar lines to that in Sydenham Park, London).
Most of Hawkins American restorations were destroyed, but the Hadrosaurus survived and is displayed by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (where the original find had been housed).
www.dinohunters.com /History/Hadrosaurus.htm   (224 words)

  
 Hadrosaurus Printout- ZoomDinosaurs.com
Hadrosaurus was a duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period, roughly 84 to 71 million years ago.
No one knows what color Hadrosaurus, or any dinosaur, was.
Fossils: Hadrosaurus was named in 1858 by paleontologist Joseph Leidy from a skull-less skeleton and hundreds of teeth that were found in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Hadrosaurus.shtml   (148 words)

  
 DLESE description of Hadrosaurus foulkii: Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hadrosaurus foulkii: Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton
There is information about what the Hadrosaurus dinosaur and its life was like and how the Haddonfield discovery led to the Bone Wars.
The history of public displays of the skeleton as well as changes that were made in its stance and the shape of its skull based on new knowledge is explained.
www.dlese.org:8080 /dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-005-061.htm   (132 words)

  
 The Hadrosaurus Bones, 1865   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The featured specimen, in terms of number of plates, was Hadrosaurus foulkii.
This was the first time that Hadrosaurus had been illustrated in print.
The illustration reproduced here is a large folding plate that shows six views of the left femur of Hadrosaurus, as well as two views of a metatarsal bone, which may or may not have come from the same animal.
www.lhl.lib.mo.us /events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/dino/lei1865.htm   (157 words)

  
 SierraActivist.org - Environment News, Alerts, Announcements, Calendar, Links & More!
Although it's not the most impressive, the most famous of the area's dinosaurs is the one immortalized in Haddonfield, the Hadrosaurus foulkii.
But it was not the only hadrosaurus in the area.
"There were several types of hadrosaurus - the same way that in Africa there's a diversity of antelopes," said Ted Daeschler, assistant curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, final resting place of the fossilized remains of the real Hadrosaurus foulkii.
sierraactivist.org /article.php?sid=41746   (790 words)

  
 Big Brook Duckbilled Dinosaur Page
Size: Edmontosaurus is a typical member of the herbivorous duckbill family and reached 6 meters (about 20 feet) in length.
Notes: A close earlier relative (Hadrosaurus foulkii) has the distinction of being the first relatively complete dinosaur to be discovered in North America and probably the world.
A partial skeleton made up of 35 bones was found in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey in 1858.
njfossils.net /duckbilled.html   (473 words)

  
 Haddonfield History
William Parker Foulke, a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia excavated the fossils of Hadrosaurus foulkii from a Haddonfield, NJ, marl pit in 1858.
The Hadrosaurus is the name for a duck-billed dinosaur.
The fossils remain at the Academy of Natural Sciences in special storage, because the original bones are subject to pyrite disease due to exposure to air.
www.westfieldnj.com /whs/history/Counties/CamdenCounty/haddonfield.htm   (1125 words)

  
 Sculptor making dino for '03 party
Come October next year, on the 145th anniversary of its discovery in a marl pit here, one of the world's great dinosaur finds - Hadrosaurus foulkii - will return home in bronze triumph.
Retired from Rutgers after 31 years as a professor of the arts, he was picked over five sculptors for the project by HATCH (Haddonfield Acts to Create Hadrosaurus foulkii), a group created by the local Garden Club to select an artist and manage the project.
The sculptor will be working from a ladder and scaffolding as he works in his Giannotti Studios, located in a barn behind his Haddonfield home.
www.southjerseynews.com /communities/camden/ca090502c.htm   (692 words)

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