City of Mesa, AZ

Paleontology Collections

The collections are non-circulating, but available by appointment Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Active Excavation Sites
* Fort Crittenden (snails, turtles, clams, early fish and dinosaur bones)
* Payson (many bones of armor-plated fish)
* Safford (giant capybara, horses, camels and a Glyptotherium)
* Zuni Basin (several animals new to science including dinosaur Zuniceratops)
* Moenkopi (trackways, amphibians and reptiles)
* New Sauropod (partial skeleton of a sauropod)

Closed Site Collectionsphoto of dinosaur bone
* Saint Johns (bone fragments and teeth of phytosaurs and metoposaurs)
* Milk Creek (horse and camel bones and teeth)
* Wikiup (bear and bird bones)

Collections
* Nisbet Invertebrate Collection
* Russian Dinosaur and Mammal-like Reptile Casts
* Larry Marshall Marsupial Dentition Collection

 

 

 

53 N. Macdonald
Mesa, AZ 85201

(One block north of Main Street in downtown Mesa. Take US 60 or 202 to Country Club Drive, go to Main Street, and proceed one-half mile east to Macdonald) - View Map

Phone:
480-644-2230

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