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Fruita Colorado – The Real Jurassic Park
A Jurassic Era paradise
Fruita Colorado
Fruita Colorado sits in what is now known as the Grand Valley. Over 250 million years ago, the area was lush with the Western Interior Seaway cutting across the valley. This was a prime spot for a variety of dinosaurs, mammals, and marine lifeforms. The Grand Valley stayed a habitable environment for dinosaurs for the majority of The Mesozoic Era, 251.9 to 66.0 million years ago.
The Morrison Formation, which Fruita is very to close to, is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. Elmer Riggs started the Dinosaur discoveries in Fruita, in 1900, when he discovered a Brachiosaurus. From then on Fruita has been a hot bed of fossil discoveries with 2 Dinosaurs named after the town itself, after they were discovered there.
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Species of fossils found in Fruita Colorado
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Dinosaur Journey Museum of Western Colorado
Fruita already has a Dinosaur Museum in town with over 15,000 Fossils in the Collection. There is also the Fruita Paleontological Area, Riggs Hill and Dinosaur Hill for you to explore as well.
View our fossil selection from Fruita Colorado
From the official Dinosaur of Fruita,the Ceratosaurus, to the Triceratops. From the Upper Jurassic (162 Million years ago) to the Late Cretaceous (66 Million years ago). We have Fossils from multiple Species from the Mesozoic Era.
