Ghost Ranch

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The Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center run by the Presbyterian church, located close to the village of Abiquiu in Rio 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 in 1934, then her permanent residence on the property from 1949 until her death. This is where her ashes are scattered.

Dinosaur bones were found here as early as 1885. In 1947 the paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert documented the discovery of over a thousand well-preserved fossilized skeletons of the small Triassic dinosaur called Coelophysis in a quarry here.

[edit] See Also

• List of fossil sites (with link directory)

[edit] External links

• The official Ghost Ranch homepage
• Ghost Ranch as the home of Georgia O'Keeffe
• on Coelophysis finds at Ghost Ranch
• Paleobiology Database: 1947-1982 AMNH Whitaker/Ghost Ranch Quarry: Norian, New Mexico
• Paleobiology Database: 1986 Ghost Ranch SE: Late/Upper Triassic, New Mexico