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    St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm

    Come and visit the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm for a unique experience, and travel back in time to walk along the shoreline of an Early Jurassic lake!

    The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, show evidence that this site was produced along the western edge of a large, Early Jurassic (age between 195-198 million years ago) freshwater lake named Lake Dixie.

    Other discoveries that make the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm unique include the largest and best preserved collection of dinosaur swim tracks, a rare sitting impression of a large meat-eating dinosaur, and the unusual association of tracks, traces and actual bones found in close proximity to each other.

    The [St. George] collection is going to be the most important in the world for the researchers working on early Jurassic footprints.

    - Gerard Gierlinski, Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw, Poland

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      St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm

      2180 East Riverside
      St. George, UT 84790

      Phone: 435.574.3466

      Fax: 435.627.0340

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      Southern Utah

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