About Dinosaur Fossil Map
An interactive map of dinosaur fossil finds. See which dinosaurs were found near you, where famous species such as T. rex were dug up, and how old the rocks are.
Dinosaur Fossil Map is a free, single-purpose website. It is built to be useful on its own: you can explore the map, share a link to exactly what you are looking at, embed it on your own page or download an image of it. Everything is made from open data, and the credits are on the data sources page.
Who runs it
This site is run by Chris Barnes, a sole trader (England and Wales). It is one of a small family of map sites; you can find the others in the "More maps" list at the bottom of every page.
How accurate is it?
We show the data as its authors published it, and we try to be honest about how certain it is. Where something is a best guess, the map says so. If you spot a mistake in how we display or describe the data, please tell us.
How it is paid for
The site is free to use. It may show adverts, and it offers an optional email newsletter. We do not sell your personal data.
Why this site exists
Most dinosaur websites tell you what a dinosaur looked like. This one tells you where it was found. You can see which dinosaurs turned up near you, where a famous species such as Tyrannosaurus was dug up, and how old the rocks around each find are.
How the map is made
The finds come from the Paleobiology Database, a scientific database built by researchers around the world. We took a snapshot on 2026-10-12 and kept the 17,937 non-avian dinosaur body fossil records that have map coordinates. Every count, age and ranking on the site is worked out from those records by a script that runs the same way each time. We do not add finds of our own, and we are not palaeontologists. The credits and licences are on the data sources page.
What the map does not show
Birds, footprints and eggs are left out, and so are fossils that are not dinosaurs, such as marine reptiles. A dot marks where a find was recorded, which is not always where it was dug up: some positions are only rough, and those are marked as approximate. The database is also only as complete as the work that has been published and entered, so a place with no dots is not proof that there is nothing there.
The map is a guide to the science, not to where you can dig. Many fossil sites are on private or protected land, so check the rules before you collect anything.
Spotted a mistake?
Tell us through the contact page. Errors in the underlying records are best reported to the Paleobiology Database itself, and corrections there come through when we refresh the snapshot.