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Rio Arriba County

Ghost Ranch Museums on Anthropology and Paleontology

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Ghost Ranch Museums on Anthropology and Paleontology

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Ghost Ranch Museums on Anthropology and Paleontology

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    October 29, 2024

    Surprisingly large and diverse exhibits considering this remote area. Excellent info panels. Ghost Ranch is host to two museums, the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology and the Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, in addition to the Ghost Ranch Library. The Museums of Ghost Ranch are dedicated to advancing research, education and public engagement in Anthropology, Archaeology and Paleontology.
    Ghost Ranch is a world‐renowned site for Triassic paleontology. Its low, red‐grey mounded hills and washes boast three fossil quarries that are famous among scholars and amateur paleontologists, and a number of other sites where isolated skulls, bones, or skeletons have been found. The three major quarries are the Canjilon Quarry (now situated on U.S. Forest Service land), the Coelophysis Quarry, and the Hayden Quarry. Dozens of different kinds of fossil reptiles, amphibians, and other vertebrates have been discovered, as well as fossil plants and invertebrates. Its quarries have, in recent years, given a whole new perspective to our understanding of how the dinosaurs began to take dominance of the terrestrial realm in the Late Triassic, over 200 million years ago.
    Tues-Sat: 9am-5pm; Closed 12pm-1pm
    Sun: 1pm-5pm; Closed Monday
    The Day Pass fee of $10.00 per adult over 18 grants guests access to both Museums, the labyrinth, and all Ghost Ranch hiking trails.
    ghostranch.org/museums

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      Location: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States

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