- Ghost Ranch
The Ghost Ranch is a convert|21000|acre|km2|0|sing=on retreat and education center run by the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) , located close to the village ofAbiquiu inRio Arriba County, New Mexico .The Ghost Ranch is the subject of many landscapes by the American painter
Georgia O'Keeffe , who maintained a summer home there in1934 , then her permanent residence on the property from1949 until her death. This is where her ashes are scattered.The last private owner of the Ghost Ranch was Arthur Newton Pack, who donated the ranch to the Presbyterian Church. Arthur Pack was also the publisher of Nature magazine and opened the Ghost Ranch Lodge in Tucson, Arizona and contributed to the creation of the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
Ghost Ranch includes a famous paleontological site preserving
Triassic dinosaur s. Fossil bones were found here as early as1885 . In1947 thepaleontologist Edwin H. Colbert documented the discovery of over a thousand well-preserved fossilized skeletons of a smallTriassic dinosaur calledCoelophysis in a quarry here. In2007 , fossil remains of "Dromomeron romeri ", one of the archaic group of animals called "basaldinosauromorph s," were found in the Hayden Quarry. [http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/476588,CST-NWS-predino20.article]
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