Coon Creek Science Center

The Coon Creek Science Center is a science center and fossil finding site at 2985 Hardin Graveyard Road in Adamsville, McNairy County, Tennessee, US.

The science center is situated on a 232 acres (94 ha) property on one of the most important fossil sites in North America.

It is a sedimentary sandy marl deposit, Late Cretaceous in age, about 73 million years old.

In the Late Cretaceous epoch, the Gulf of Mexico reached further north and West Tennessee was covered by water.

Finds at the Coon Creek site range from marine shells, crabs and snails to vertebrate