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  2. Paleosol - Wikipedia

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    The record of paleosols extends into the Precambrian in Earth's history, with rare paleosols older than 2.5 billion years. Geology, biology, and the atmosphere all changed significantly over that time, with dramatic shifts at the Great Oxidation Event (2.42 billion years ago) and during the Paleozoic, when complex animals and land plants proliferated.

  3. Paleopedology - Wikipedia

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    Even when fossils that are found in paleosols are understood, much more can be learned regarding their preservation, ecology, and evolution by studying the paleosols they inhabited. Fossil stumps in a paleosol. A fossilized footprint, burrow, or coprolite (fossil feces), are examples of trace fossils (ichnofossils). These trace fossils do not ...

  4. List of index fossils - Wikipedia

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    Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.

  5. Creodonta - Wikipedia

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    Creodonta ("meat teeth") is a former order of extinct carnivorous placental mammals that lived from the early Paleocene to the late Miocene epochs in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

  6. Denver Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Denver Formation rests on the Arapahoe Formation, and its base is marked by the first appearance of tuffaceous sediments. It is overlain by the Dawson Arkose. [4] [8]In 2002 the Denver Formation was included as part of a larger unconformity-bounded unit named the D1 sequence, in order to facilitate basin-wide studies and avoid confusion arising from the lateral and vertical facies changes ...

  7. 9-million-year-old marine fossils found beneath California ...

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    The fossils were first uncovered during the school’s modernization project, which began in 2022. The first find was unearthed in June 2022 beneath the school’s main courtyard, ...

  8. Category:Fossils - Wikipedia

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    Fossils — of prehistoric plants, animals, fungi, and algae. As well as some genera/species that are still extant, yet have an extensive fossil record. Subcategories.

  9. Dasypus bellus - Wikipedia

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    Dasypus bellus fossil occurrence in Florida. The earliest fossils are found in early Pleistocene South America, and would emigrate into southern North America. They have been found at many sites in Florida, including caves, sinkholes, river sites, coastal, and lake deposits. By the late Pleistocene, D. bellus spread into the American Southwest ...